When I hear someone complain that a horror movie didn't make sense, I think of that classic quote from Lovecraft: "The youngest and weakest emotion of mankind is fear, and the youngest and weakest kind of fear is fear of the known."
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![Image: poll results for 4 questions about Black civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s US. Results of each question are shown on a bar with pro-Black responses in blue, anti-Black responses in red, and neutral responses in gray.
First section is titled "Freedom Riders, sit-ins (May 1961)" with two questions.
Q1: Do you approve or disapprove of what the "Freedom Riders" are doing? Results: 22% approve, 61% disapprove, 18% no opinion.
Q2: Do you think "sit-ins" at lunch counters, "freedom buses" and other demonstrations by Negroes will hurt or help the Negro's chances of being integrated in the South? Results: 28% help, 57% hurt, 16% no opinion.
Second section is titled "March on Washington (August 1963)" with one question.
Q: What are your feelings about this [proposed mass civil rights rally]? Results: 23% favorable, 60% unfavorable, 17% no opinion/undecided.
Third section is titled "Whites on 'demonstrations by Negroes' (October 1966)".
Q: All in all, do you feel the demonstrations by Negroes on civil rights have helped more or hurt more in the advancement of Negro rights? Results: 15% helps, 85% hurts.
At the bottom of the image are the following notes:
Note: White respondents only. Source: Conducted by Louis Harris & Associates during October 1966, and based on personal interviews with a national adult sample of 1,250. Sample size is approximate. As reported in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Data provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Image is labeled "The Washington Post".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreicynardqumuanpag2rbdibhpmityycwwejcbyasgrhtetd3a4ywdi)