Genocide is the outgrowth of institutionalized bigotry, whether ethnic, religious, or even based on a vague ideological abstractions like class identification (e.g. “bourgeois” or “counter- revolutionary”) in Marxist regimes like Stalin’s Russia or Cambodia. The common denominator in all these primordial horrors is state-sponsored demonization of the targeted “other.” So whenever anyone or any party starts a demonization campaign (e.g. Trump or DeSantis or Fox News demonizing all who oppose them with Ill-defined sneer words like “woke” to slime their opponents), we need to push back and call their bluff. Hate campaigns are the precursor to genocide, and must be discredited vigorously from the outset. As Bob Dylan once sang, “Don’t hate nothing at all except hatred.”