> There is a fair amount already written on it but the insinuation that laughing a names leads to genocide ended up in the picture. I think that's a misinterpr

> There is a fair amount already written on it but the insinuation that laughing a names leads to genocide ended up in the picture. I think that's a misinterpretation of what that graphic is trying to convey. The point isn't that people and groups that exhibit behavior at the bottom of the pyramid are on the march to genocide. It's that there's a spectrum of bigotry and discrimination, and each level of it that is tolerated enables worse behavior. It doesn't mean every situation is going to get to the level of mass-killings. Normalizing bigoted behavior encourages more bigoted behavior. The same way that normalizing managers who scream and yell at people often leads to others becoming more openly belligerent or otherwise creates a toxic workplace.