It’s paradoxical that this similarity is what can also be frightening about other people—it’s hard for us to see everyone else as fully human as we are. You can see how this plays out with something like immigration. People who are afraid of immigrants have to dehumanize them. How ...
The people of Illinois naturally regarded the immigration of the Mormons as an intrusion, and contemplated with abhorrence the naturalization of the heresy on their soil. Such pretensions as those of the Saints, paraded with all the arrogance of success, were not calculated to allay these feeling...