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Tag: Racism

Extremism and race: slaying the phantom

27 March 2019 Mike Scrafton Australian focus

The conviction that racial differences account for behaviours and values in the real world, although erroneous, is strongly held by some. Singling out the racism of extremists as being exceptional risks obscuring the authorising environment in which they operate.

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AUKUS

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ISRAEL

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The UKRAINE Archive

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About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

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