These collective classes thus begin to be assigned inordinate importance in the mixed-economy society. Human beings become mistakenly identified with the social groups to which they belong, an error exemplified by the increasingly customary labeling of individuals as "minorities" rather than as members of minority groups (cf. p. 3.11:8). Regardless of whether the individuals are Jews in the Weimar Republic or blacks, whites, or Hispanics in the United States, all aspects of their lives and behavior come to be scrutinized in terms of race or racism, gender or sexism, and similar categories. People begin to regard each other not as individual human beings but rather as members of these politically engendered groupings. It becomes a matter of presumption that voters will automatically support politicians of their own race or other collective class; similarly, juries increasingly often are divided by racial boundaries. Consequently, heated battles arise regarding the racial composition of electoral districts and of juries. Since human life is precisely the life of individual human beings, a loss of respect for human life itself is implicit in these new collectivist attitudes. Such attitudes further reduce inhibitions against crime and violence, leading not only to the well-known "hate crimes" directed against blacks, whites, women, or homosexuals, but also to crimes prompted by broader depersonalized feelings about groups such as businessmen, the affluent, or the foreign-born.