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Stalin said: One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Movies like Sophie's Choice and Schindler's List brought the Holocaust down to individual human terms. It is easier to demonize "the Jews" than to hate an individual Jew. Identity politics has put everyone into groups, and then classified those groups as oppressors or the oppressed, the bad and the good. Individualism tries to get us, as Dr. King said, to judge each person by his or her chacter.

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