Looking past toothy grins is racism.
Sounds like the people you knew had quaffed deeply from the cup of Communist quaquaversal lying .... lie to everybody, about everybody else, turn them all against each other.
You bigot, you! What are you, a southern-fried redneck chicken farmer? What ...... ? Well, you must be one of Them, the bigoted people who oppose Good People and Vanguard Comrades who Lead the People's Advance. FORWARD!
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