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The president added that his administration will confront and must defeat “political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism”. CNN and MSNBC talking heads were in no doubt: Biden was declaring war on America’s true enemies. Firstly, however, to have racism at the top of the agenda is noteworthy given that survey after survey shows that after the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia are the least racist countries in the world – and by quite some distance.