racism
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Avoiding the guillotine
I’ve written a short piece for the Minnesota Reformer about the defeat of the Rassemblement National in the second round of the French elections. Read more here: https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/10/heres-what-the-french-anti-fascist-election-coalition-can-teach-us-here/
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A letter to Representative Jamie Herrera Beutler on the subject of racist violence
Dear Representative Herrera Beutler: I read in today’s paper that a Sikh man was shot and wounded today by a man who said “Go back to your own country.” (The story is here.) I am…
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Arbitrary, incompetent, and malicious
What do Mem Fox and Henry Rousso have in common? Not much, at first blush. She’s Australian, from Adelaide, and a prolific writer of children’s books. (When they were younger, my kids adored those books;…
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The Manichean Candidate
We’re told that Donald Trump tapped into the anti-establishment anger of a “declining middle class.” But it’s a peculiar world in which people who are supposed to have class interests — that is to say,…
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A plea for November
Donald Trump’s victory in the GOP race is utterly appalling; no reasonable person can doubt it. Trump is a bigot. His campaign began with a attack on Mexican immigrants, one that was pushed into the…
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Vote “NO” on the xenophobic initiative — «Pour le renvoi effectif des étrangers criminels (initiative de mise en œuvre)»
Categories: racismThis repulsive piece of propaganda arrived in my postbox today. It is a part of a rising tide of ugly nationalisms: the Front National in France, Pegida in Germany, and on and on. Switzerland is…