Word: racists
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...Acts of racist violence can and do happen anywhere. But the ominous context of a deadly rampage this week in Antwerp has left Belgians anxious about the state of ethnic relations in their prosperous but heterogeneous country...
...deterrent against the unbearable perils of terrorism's ultimate expression? Pierre Galipeau St.-Léonard, Canada The idea that nuclear weapons are safe only in the hands of Americans and their European cousins and a danger to the rest of the world is not only patronizing but also racist. If the U.S. and its friends can be trusted with nuclear weapons, why not any other country? The only way to ensure universal nuclear disarmament is for all countries to renounce and destroy the nuclear weapons they have acquired. As long as some have them, others will try to acquire...
...Take my neighbor, a Québecois who repeatedly insisted to Tanzanians who spoke of their desire to emigrate to America that it was a “racist, abusive place.” He himself professed to be frightened to cross the American border. (The Patriot Act, he explained, had turned the U.S. into a police state.) And why, he wondered, would anyone want to go to America when Africa was such a paradise...
...idea that nuclear weapons aresafe only in the hands of Americans and their European cousins and a danger to the rest of the world is not only patronizing but also racist. If the U.S. and its friends can be trusted with nuclear weapons, why not any other country? The only way to ensure universal nuclear disarmament is for all countries to renounce and destroy the nuclear weapons they have acquired. As long as some have them, others will try to acquire them. Iran is not only surrounded by countries that possess nuclear weapons but is also threatened with attack...
...Their protest rally attracted large numbers, with many downtown small businesses shut down and major streets closed near city hall and the one-mile march route. Posters promoting the noon rally featured a stop sign printed with the words: "NO work; NO school; NO shopping; NO selling; STOP the RACIST Sensenbrenner Bill...