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...against Snow White and her animated peers. Since the animated heroine’s 1937 debut, nearly every Disney cartoon has been accused of sexism or racism. The criticism peaked during the 1990s, when Aladdin and Pocahontas drew the wrath of advocacy groups enraged by the films’ racist stereotyping and revisionist history...
Horowitz is becoming a perennial spring presence at Harvard; last year around this time, he asked The Crimson to run a controversial advertisement, “10 Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea—And Racist Too,” to help publicize his book of the same title...
...Kerouac himself was an alcoholic and a Bezedrine addict and died of alcohol-related causes at the age of 47. He faced frequent bouts of depression and spent time in jail, first as an accessory to murder and again for having not paid child support. He was also staunchly racist, according to Beat historian James Cambell...
...students are doing is not civil disobedience. When Gandhi went to jail for protesting British imperialism and refused to eat for such a long time that he nearly died, that was civil disobedience. When Dr. King went to prison for fighting for civil rights and was regularly beaten by racist sheriffs, that was civil disobedience. When Nelson Mandela languished in his jail cell, that was civil disobedience. So when Harvard janitors march to protest that they are not getting a big enough pay raise, forgive me for not hailing them as martyrs...
...murder is also a reminder of the intensity of many Muslims’ anti-Semitism. Muslim extremists will no doubt be the largest group of anti-Semites during the twenty-first century. The evidence is in the firebombed synagogues and Jewish elementary schools in France and the racist sermons of imams in Britain as well as in the vicious words of the Arab world’s regimes. It is also in conference rooms in Durban, South Africa, where the farcically-named World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was turned into an anti-Semitic gadfest...