Dare to be different?

I just stumbled across this article via a pagan email list I read. The incident itself makes me ill, but reading the comments is interesting (well, most of them).

Witch leaving town after attack

Three hundred and fifteen years since Salem, and stuff like this still happens. But I wonder if they would have been targeted if they were "different" in another way? Like had foot-high neon green mohawks, for example?

Still ... Score one more point for my cozy broom closet.