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In order to justify their actions, numerous groups throughout history give the reason that the people they are persecuting deserve the treatment they receive because they are different from their persecutors in some way. These differences can range from physical appearance, as was the case in WWII Nazi Germany, to economic status, as can be seen in present day USA. The “White Terror” is a phenomenon in which some members of the white race come to believe that theirs is the supreme race, and that all other races are inferior. They go to varying extremes to prove this, performing heinous acts such as the beatings of black people in Russia that are occurring in the present day. In many cases, the people performing these acts feel no guilt, and may even experience pleasure from it. In order to get to this point where the assailant feels no guilt or remorse, he or she must be trained to abandon their own way of thinking and adopt that of a power higher than theirs. Once this way of thinking is ingrained, this feeling of superiority begins to apply not only in terms of race, but also in ter