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The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University

The cruel murder of 50 people in New Zealand was another tragic reminder of how humans are capable of heartlessly killing their own kind just based on what they believe, how they worship, and what race or nationality they belong to. There is a longstanding history of the fear of “the others” turning humans into illogical ruthless...

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