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With everything going on with Russia they still have time for this bullshit!
That's kinda the whole point of this bullshit. Russia's entire history is "things go bad? find an enemy and attack them." This distracts the populace and makes the ruler (at least theoretically) look "strong". This is why "war" is the answer to almost any problem in Russia. For Nicholas II this didn't work out though, when he attacked Japan hoping for a quick victory, but ended up losing and exacerbating problems at home, which then led to the collapse of Russia.
It's a core foundation of Fascism to define "us" and "them" groups, blame the "them" and if in power followup those words with actual actions against said "them".
Sex being the thing which generates the most tension in peoples' minds in present day society - we pretty much all want it and yet we're taught that it's somehow "impure" and interiorize all sorts of boundaries around it and judgements on people who don't obbey said boundaries - it's only natural that people who are a minority in practicing some sexual practices that the majority does not are chosen as "them".
We might have the tech, but socially and psychologically most of humanity are barelly changed from cavemen days and we might have even gone backwards (there was a time when nakedness was far less "frowned upon"), so cross these two of the biggest disfunctions in the psyche of many - sex and tribalism - and you end up with this kind of shit.
I'm pretty sure this is just a fundamental way to understand groups, any groups. How would a group exist without an "us" and a "them"?
The error in that argument is oversimplification.
It's not just the grouping people, it's the how its done.
For starters, it only makes logical sense to group people on actions they actually commit or committed - say, "this person has repeatedly stollen things, hence he is a thief" - because it's a judgement on their actions, while it makes no logical sense group them on something else and then judge them as a group for something unrelated - say, "this person was born with a certain skin color hence he is a thief" - because it's quite literally prejudice (the judging somebody for acts they have not committed).
The second part is simplifying it into "us" and "them" - it's quite literally mathematically impossible to, in any situation with more than 2 humans, have 2 or fewer generic classifications (worse, as people actually change how they act as their life experiences change them, so they would change classification). This is because there are so many different things of importance in which people can chose to act in different ways (and for many such important things there are even more choices than merelly 2), that any realistic grouping of humans on anything more generic than a single behaviour - such as thieving - would yield billions of groups (pretty much one per person) because there are just way too many combinations of preferred choices.
It's not possible to have a genuine division of humans in a general sense into a mere 2, "us" and "them", and the lie in such division is further compounded when action judgements are passed on all individuals of an entire group which was defined by any criteria other than having commited said actions.
And then to top all this up, they cast those 2 groups as adversarial, thus justifying violence by their group against the other group.
PS: By the way, it's not just Fascists who do this kind of prejudiced grouping of people, but what's more unique about that ideology is the tendency for the splitting to immediatelly or eventually end up with a mere 2 groups which are deemed in opposition to each other in everything that matters and were the Fascists are all in the group ("us") that's pre-judged as "good" and the others are in the group ("them") prejudged "bad".
You'll see, for example, Liberals also doing the grouping of people on arbitrary non-action characteristics, complete with "good" and "bad" prejudgements based on group membership (though the words used are usually "victim" and "oppressor" rather than "good" and "bad"), but they're usually divided into many groups (an ever growing list, even) and the group in which the Liberal individual is not necessarilly one of the groups deemed "good" (whilst the Fascists will always put themselves in the "good" group).
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Well, when there's only so many people in the group you know them and that's enough. Even if one lives on an island with population of 20 and knows nothing about outside world, one would recognize those 20 as his group, I'd wager