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Absolutely. As long as there are people who can be considered "different" by the larger culture, there are scapegoates for people to project their fears and prejudices on. We saw a modern version of the Salem witchhunt in the McCarthy communist scare of the fifties, and we see it now with people being branded "terrorist" because of their heritage or religious belief (specifically muslim).
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