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> so books that when published were Anti-Racist, like To Kill A Mockingbird, can now be banned in places due to charges of Racism.

What that shows is that some people are incapable of understanding anything from outside their own cultural context - they cannot understand the past or other cultures. This is a common problem with anything from the Bible to a contemporary work by a foreigner.

Racism is, like race, a cultural construct. It is not the same thing over time or in different places. I have my own take on that, mostly from my own experience: https://pietersz.co.uk/2023/08/racism-culture-different



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