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...Materazzi acknowledged he talked trash to Zidane, but said there was no racism, Islamophobia, or "yo mama" aspect to it. "It was the kind of insult you will hear dozens of times and just slips out of the ground," Materazzi told the Italian daily La Gazetta dello Sport. "I didn't call Zidane a terrorist and certainly didn't mention his mother." For his part, Zidane has only told intimates that the comment that set (and sent) him off was "very serious," but that he regrets the brutal reaction that marked the end to the last game of his long...
...lastly, there's the contradiction of insisting that racism and xenophobia aren't part of this discussion, especially when they've been part of every immigration reform discussion in the history of the Republic. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the 1924 Immigration Act - which used quotas to limit immigration from Southern Europe (read: Italy) - to the debate during World War II on how many Jewish refugees the U.S. should take in, we have never managed to have an ethnic-neutral, origin-neutral discussion of immigration reform. It always becomes about keeping out "those people." The present debate...
...such distinctions exist for many activists, who believe zoo keepers are guilty of "speciesism," the movement's politically correct counterpart to racism. Animals, PETA insists, are no different from people and should be treated accordingly. "There really is no rational reason for saying a human being has special rights," says PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, whose credo...
...March, from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women? Probably not, since he spends most of the book offstage, preaching to Union troops in the Civil War. In March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Brooks liberates him from obscurity and follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through...
...Gaza and the West Bank, Summers called the petition’s signers “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” His conviction lay not in any evidence of the petitioners’ personal anti-Semitism, or of their inaction against racism in Sudan and South Africa, or in any disproof that Israel was committing illegal acts of occupation or violence against its indigenous people—all with extraordinary financial, military, and diplomatic support from our government. Summers’ inference rested merely on the fact that the petition was being circulated...