Word: racists
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...displays," a Californian was not pleased, declaring, "Those three scowling, sunglasses-wearing men look as if you plucked them out of a cheap music video. It's an ugly stereotype, pandering to our worst prejudices." And a Belgian was even more piqued, saying, "Rarely have I seen a more racist cover picture or one more likely to reinforce misguided nationalism and resentment on both sides of the world...
...English football fans have been high since 2000, when two Leeds United supporters were stabbed to death amid crowd mayhem before a UEFA (Union Européene de Football Association) Cup match against Galatasaray in Istanbul. When the two countries played in Sunderland last April, some English fans chanted racist abuse at the Turks and invaded the pitch after the game. This time, the English Football Association has refused the usual allotment of tickets for visiting fans and pleaded with supporters to stay home. Turkish authorities vowed to turn English fans back at the border and lock...
Dershowitz structures The Case for Israel by addressing thirty-two questions he says have maligned Israel in recent years, including accusations that it is a civil rights violator and racist state. Dershowitz begins each chapter by quoting several sources that have made the relevant accusation, then proceeds to offer facts that demonstrate the contrary. When possible he cites figures who oppose his own views, including well-known critics of Israel like MIT Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky and Columbia Literature Professor Edward Said...
...often quoted Bible passages about Jesus' breaking down the "middle wall of partition," as code for racial tolerance. "You couldn't convey too much from the pulpit," Jernigan, 72, recalls, "because you could alienate the people you wanted to lead. But Larry Joe Sims and his family were not racist. That's why what happened was so amazing...
...Aktionsbüro Süddeutschland (Society of Comrades Action Bureau, Southern Germany). "It's no coincidence that they are east Germans," says Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism at Berlin's Free University. "Ten years of experiencing the downside of German unification has created a racist youth subculture in the east." Norbert Klein is the owner of Friendship, a folksy restaurant in a working-class Munich neighborhood, where Wiese and his gang used to provide security for Direct Democracy, a radical right-wing coalition that held meetings in a back room. "Sometimes they'd get a hundred...