"why is the positive sense of word "radical" nearly always seen in a negative sense - because the masses are generally ignorant and do what they are told to do anything that interfers with our pavlovic drooling response is met with hostility, by us."
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While you may be right to an extent that the masses are ignorant(or perhaps simply complacent?), the negative response to the statement referred to is that many people recognise that in order to remove racism, sexism, homophobia and all the other "isms' one must institute a tyranny. In short, cure worse than the disease.
