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Confronting Classics’ Complicity in White Supremacy

We Condone It by Our Silence Confronting Classics’ Complicity in White Supremacy Rebecca Futo Kennedy 15 min read · May 11, 2017 -- 27 Listen Share Art by Mali Skotheim In a recent interview on CNN, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) called himself a “champion for western civilization” i n response to questions about his tweet calling culture our “destiny” and stating that America can’t restore its “civilization” through immigration. This isn’t a new code language used by a new type of racist. The same language has justified white supremacy in the United States since the nineteenth century, and it remai

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