Magic of Humanity

     They saw the world as a web of electromagnetic fields, a blue-green net that sparked and shimmered in the dark. They were special, unlike the deaf, the dumb, the blind. Metaphorically of course, because they could very well hear and speak and see, but they didn't understand the magic. A world of technology, a place of wires and signals and wavelengths... But it took a select few to see it. And when they did, it took only one bad seed to ruin it all.
     The Tech Wars nearly killed us. For all the species we've run to extinction, we were about to do one better - heading straight toward causing our own extinction. Was it a godsend that technological magic wasn't the only type. Maybe, but more likely it was work of the devil himself. For the most part, magic users were ignored and left alone. Then the techies started going crazy. The rest of us, we had to step up. We had to really drop the hammer on them, crush them to save everyone else. Now the ones we saved, all those normal people, they're terrified of us.
     Humans are stubborn. It was in their best interest to shut up after the war, to be quiet and content and peaceful in their own living. Their own being. They couldn't do it, of course not. We were too strong, too powerful, and we scared the shit out of them. They wanted us gone, dead, eradicated, but they couldn't condone genocide. So the government started implementing new regulations and policies.
     It started small at first. A registration form here or there, an identifying marker or two... Then the big changes came. The segregation. It was the 1800s all over again. Then it was World War 2, and we were being herded into camps.
     They call it humane. We get three square meals a day, a bed, clothes, shelter... We have jobs and receive a stipend, but live in barracks inside electric fencing. They removed us from the things that fueled us, they weakened us... They castrated our magic, left us impotent. Now, we live in the deserts, those dismal places where no regular person in their right mind will go. We are watched over and kept like domesticated livestock. 
     This is why the truth was hidden for so long. This is why no one blew the big secret until the early 3000s. Because humanity can't take it. Humanity wants to believe it's all powerful, a divine species with godlike ability. Anything exceeding natural born ability is abhorrent and scary - only because it is better, more powerful.
     Not a genocide, no.
     Mass restraint, containment, and captivity, enforced until the last of us dies.