So, assume the US continues its grim slide towards increased tolerance

[james_davis_nicoll]

Say women, gays, and religious and ethnic minorities are taken off the board as targets a certain sort of politician can take shots at to win voters over, which groups would you expect to be used as convenient scapegoats for all that is wrong with the world? The world being the US?

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[zeborah]

Fat people. Except you don't really need the conditional for that.

[ironjeff]

Fuhrnehrs! Goddam fuhrnehrs! Speshully them canadaians!

[klgaffney]

The mentally ill and the disabled. Assuming this is a way-in-the-future thing ('cause frankly I don't see the U.S getting over any of its issues any time soon), let's throw the tech-assisted/enhanced and cyborgs into the arena.

[elliemurasaki]

Poor people, people with disabilities, people with mental illnesses. Not necessarily in that order, though I expect the first to become increasingly prominent as wealth is increasingly concentrated.

[oh6]

Criminals, I guess.