A post on social media is by Ted Muftic, my son: (Ted is a graduate of Stanford in international relations and economics and a Harvard MBA, and an international business consultant with experience from Wall Street to nearly every continent). His perspective is valued by me and I wanted to share this:
I agree that we should understand the motivations and find a
way to address them and work to calm the situation. At the same time, I am
white and don't feel villainized at all, so I hope it is not just a race issue
or that "MSM" is trying to make this a race issue or that
"urbans" are trying to villainize "rurals". What happened
in Yugoslavia is that very cynical politicians exploited and enhanced already
deep divisions in society along ethnic and religious lines to cement their
power and to profit by it. I see many parallels here right now, re: how
politicians here seek to divide along race, culture and socio economic lines to
profit and consolidate their power. Our historical racial divisions are
obvious and undeniable. What is new is this "culture" war (maybe just
code for race) and this information ecosystem which creates two sets of facts
and no room for dialogue -- call it political propaganda and extreme
tribalism. We need to address this now or we may be really in trouble.
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