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The " they " and " them " in the citation refer to the authorities and general society in which lynching was established as a sort of corrective for blacks who whites believed had overstepped the markers of what was socially acceptable according to the race-based caste system . Freud wandered into the arena of what was socially accepted as irrational , neurotic behavior .