There’s a bit in the latest Hunger Games movie where Katniss is talking about how fighting each other is pointless and that the oppressed fighting amongst each other is exactly what the Capitol (the oppressors) want. They want the oppressed to fight among each other rather than turning their combined power against the oppressors - the people in power. Because the elite don’t stand a chance against the combined power of the masses.

In a movie, or a book, we eat this shit up.

And then I come across a newspaper implying that all Muslims are sympathetic with ISIS or trying to excuse police brutality against a black man, or a trans woman.

Why do you think it is that the Government finds a scapegoat every time the people are unhappy? Jewish people, Muslim people, black people, poor people, disabled people, immigrants. If we’re blaming other people - oppressed people - we’re not blaming them. If we’re fighting each other with all our prejudices and stereotypes that are fed to us by the people in power, we’re not fighting them.

We accept it in media - in films, TV and books. But we don’t accept that our own Governments are doing it too.