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Legacy of Tun Razak, saviour of Malaysia s political system, endures

Legacy of Tun Razak, saviour of Malaysia’s political system, endures Former Malaysian prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein formed a huge parliamentary coalition that co-opted opposition parties in pursuit of national unity. Getty Images Tun Abdul Razak, then Malaya s deputy prime minister and defence minister, exchanges gifts with then US president John F Kennedy in the White House, Washington. Alamy Tun Abdul Razak, second right, poses for pictures with ministerial representatives from the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore in Bangkok during the creation of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in 1967. AFP Tun Abdul Razak, centre, meets Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi during his visit to Iran in 1968. AP Photo

Aristotle and Plato must go: After targeting statues, race activists now aim to topple the ancient founders of Western thought -- Society s Child -- Sott net

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:01 UTC © Getty Images/Ted Spiegel/ContributorAn academic says classics should be cut from university syllabi as it s so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it. But depriving future generations of the wisdom of the past leads to ignorance & division. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a black academic, claims that Western civilisation is based on conceptions of whiteness that come from interpretations of the ancient authors. Recently, some classicists have tied their own discipline to white nationalism, wanting to exculpate their discipline from supposed racism. Padilla goes further and claims that classics departments are hostile to minorities. If one were intentionally to design a discipline whose institutional organs and gatekeeping protocols were explicitly aimed at disavowing the legitimate status of scholars of color, he told the

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