Seeds Of Dictatorship

Yesterday, when discussing a news item in a language class, I was told that I was talking rubbish. This is the second time this year that an ignoramus has insulted me in this way. I have also been told that I am prejudiced. Unfortunately such ignorance still shocks me and angers me, but I am having to get used to it. Usually, in each group there is at least one self appointed bigot who loudly proclaims the orthodoxy and who insults dissidents. And usually, when pressed to say why such an opinion is rubbish they refuse to do so. In this instance the young fanatic replied, after showing initial unwillingness. Apparently scientific research shows that men are more aggressive and violent than women. I replied that this was simply gender racism. The next step is claiming that the races are biologically different. Perhaps the Chinese have a cunning gene etc. etc.
He went on to tell me that poor people were more likely to be criminals, and poor men abusers of  women and children. Class racism as well as gender racism!
And then we heard how backward peoples were more likely to be abusers than people in an advanced country like we are, here and now. Gosh, I thought, pure racism!
He went on to call for more social workers to 'help' the poor, which another young person endorsed fully.
I tried to explain that this would only lead to a police state. They seemed not to be concerned about the State monitoring our private lives, nor that alleged abusers should be presumed guilty.
And saddest of all the older people were either quietly supportive, or at least silent.
Do people really support the insanity of the orthodox ideology? Clearly some university indoctrinated idiots do. But the older people, can they not remember happier freer times? Do they too now believe the fantasy world of phantoms and witches? Or are they too scared to disagree.?
My humble opinion is that they lost the capacity for critical thought long ago. Not only do they take their cue from the media as to what they think, but what they should think about. Do they ever get tired off  transgender folk and autistic spectrum disorders?
Meanwhile Rome burns.