A close reading of 19th and early 20th Century history shows that anti-black racism was commonplace and acceptable even among the most 'liberal' and 'enlightened' members of polite (white) society. It didn't look like bigotry to them, of course, but rather seemed like a simple acknowledgment of black people's ''shiftlessness" and idle nature.
Today's politically correct form of bigotry is prejudice against Islam. One billion Muslims are slandered daily in 'polite discourse' throughout the Western world - that 'civilization' that we're...
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