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When we discuss the steepness of learning curves, we need only hold up as our standard this speech, which reminds us that human history overflows with examples of this self-appointed master-race syndrome that somehow always leads to the murder of masses of "the other", designated always as subhumans, untermenschen; yet our species never seems to learn much of value from these episodes, beyond their existence as spectacles to bemoan, opportunities to shed tears that never come close to cleansing the crimes.

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