“I strongly condemn the police raid on Mevlana Mosque in Berlin during the morning prayers,” Erdogan said. [The operation] was obviously fed by racism and Islamophobia, which is bringing Europe closer to the darkness of the Middle Ages, and completely ignores the freedom of belief. The Turkish Foreign Ministry previously …
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“Review-bombing” has long been a tactic of social-media intimidation on review sites like Yelp – an angry mob (or a competitor) targets a restaurant’s page by claiming they’ve all found dead cockroaches or hair in their food, or insists a store-owner called them nasty names. To Yelp’s credit, it eventually …
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Trumpeting its “zero tolerance policy to racism,” the site announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday, explaining that while it’s great that many users have been using Yelp to air their grievances about businesses behaving in a racist manner, this is sometimes done without “actual first-hand consumer …
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The presentation slide, shared on Twitter by author James Lindsay on Wednesday, showed a list of 15 traits by which the young students could identify “white supremacy culture.” It appeared to be a rough summary of the 2001 ‘Dismantling Racism Workbook’ by authors Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones. Lindsay claimed …
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“We should eliminate the term ‘not racist’ from the human vocabulary,” Kendi tweeted on Sunday. “We are either being racist or antiracist. Is that clear for you? There is no such thing as ‘not racist.’” “So what does ‘not racist’ mean? The term has no meaning other than denying when …
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Massachusetts senator and failed presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has, along with two congresswomen, introduced a bill to declare racism ‘a public health crisis.’ Much of the bill seems to be oriented around the idea that it is attempting to provide more healthcare to minority communities that have been disproportionately affected …
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George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ depicts life within Oceania, a totalitarian society strictly controlled by an omnipresent Party whose three simple yet contradictory slogans are: war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Citizens of Oceania were forced to accept that two plus two may equal five if the Party …
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It is no secret that the nationalist and racial doctrines very strongly appeal to the emotions and feelings. One of these feelings – the desire for beauty is inherent in varying degrees to people. And today I would like to talk about it. In the future I plan to write …
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It seems the war against the remnants of the old order is in full swing. In Durham, North Carolina protesting against racism demolished the monument to Confederate soldiers. “The protesters in Durham, North Carolina, toppled a statue titled “Monument to Confederate soldiers,” – said in the message. The mayor of …
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The theme of racism and xenophobia is one of those that never gets old. But it seems that in recent years, accusations of racism are scattered right-to-left even when it already smells outright absurd. The memory is still fresh scandal with the Oscars, when the American Academy was accused of …
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