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...musicians playing every sort of instrument to the delight of hundreds of spectators. It was as though this parade erupted from the street. People in Cuba are poor, but for the most part, they are equally poor. Without class divisions, my friends told me, social divisions—like racism and anti-Semitism—don’t exist. For one second, I thought that maybe a system like this, that eliminates destructive social conflict, was the answer. So did Karl and Fidel win me over? Not exactly. As enticing as I found some aspects of the Cuban regime...
...must distinguish between racism and offensiveness. Every day we see things that offend us. Yet just because I find something distasteful, backward, or inane does not mean it is racist, immoral, or unlawful. Racism implies a malicious hatred of a race. Making light of a cultural aspect of a group, in this case with a horrid pun, does not necessarily constitute a malicious attack on that racial group. If you want a t-shirt to be upset about, look at the ones that tell girls to throw stones at boys. If this shirt told people to stone Asians, then...
...fact, the quickness of minority groups to take offense weakens these groups. Even as a Jew, I sometimes get frustrated with groups that are constantly searching for anti-Semitism to chastise. When minorities constantly look for evidence of racism, they distance themselves from society and prevent their integration into common culture. By making themselves victims, they hurt their cause rather than helping...
...writ of habeas corpus—one of only three granted that year out of 8,500 filed nationwide—it effectively gave him back his freedom. In overturning Carter’s conviction, the court wrote that “the trial had been based completely on racism and not on legal evidence.” Carter, who still carries the original writ in his breast pocket, repeatedly referred to habeas corpus as “the great writ” and said that without it he would have “languished and died behind bars...
...article published in the current edition of Military Review, Brig. Ailwin-Foster rips into the American military, charging it with arrogance, self-righteousness and cultural insensitivity bordering on "institutional racism." These traits, he suggests, prevented the Americans from building productive relationships with Iraqis - they may even have helped fuel the insurgency that wracks the country today...