Lock down the dangerous ideology

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Of late, there is an alarming surge in hateful and dangerous speech against the Rohingyas. This Covid-19 pandemic has opened a Pandora box of a virulent form of racism embedded deep within our divided society. Today, the targeted group is the Rohingyas. Tomorrow, it could be some other groups, be they the racial, ethnic, religious, national, social or political ones. The narrative has a certain ideological template which can be applied to all. It is of critical importance that we are able to recognise and identify its social implications if we are to have an early warning system. This is to detect, predict and prevent it from developing into a pandemic of violence against the targeted group. We are always in the process of classifying things, events and people. We tend to create the ingroup as ‘Us’ and outgroup as ‘Them’. However, this is really not a problem yet, until the ingro…