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...Thurmond is an old man who is leaving office not a minute too soon, but at least no politician could get away with the same racist views today. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to the rescue. At Thurmond’s birthday bash last week, Lott voiced his pride that his home state of Mississippi had voted for Thurmond back in 1948. “And,” he continued, “if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either...
...Glasgow, a Turkish Kurd refugee is seeking compensation from the Home Office, claiming a decision to force him to stay in the city - where he and his family have been the victims of racist attacks - breaches his human rights. In Paris, a young Algerian woman is suing her employer for unlawful dismissal after she was fired for refusing to adjust her headscarf. Europe is home to some 12.5 million Muslims who suffer high unemployment - and, since Sept. 11 - growing mistrust from non-Muslims. One sign of the tension came when the French government tried to create a representative council...
...conventional view attributes this trend to racism. A fairly typical op-ed in The Crimson by Toussaint G. Losier in the wake of last spring’s French elections blamed “European xenophobia and racist intolerance” for right-wing political successes. Europeans are indeed more racist than Americans are. A 1997 Eurobarometer poll found that a third of the citizens in EU countries described themselves as “very racist” or “quite racist.” But racism does not explain why the extreme rightist groups most associated with...
...immigration to levels their economies can absorb and promote linguistic and cultural integration, the European Union wants to deal with racism by criminalizing “hate speech.” On Nov. 7 the Council of Europe adopted a measure that bans “acts of a racist and xenophobic nature” committed online. While not promoting speech codes, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance issues rhetorical condemnations of xenophobia and sends representatives to flagellate themselves in front of Europe’s former colonial subjects at events like the World Conference against Racism in Durbin...
Chomsky attacked Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz for his stance on Israel and called him a “racist...