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Arguing With Racists - Colombo Telegraph


Arguing With Racists
Epigraph: “Unhappy the land that has no heroes.” “No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.”~  (Brecht)
Preface. St Augustine said he thinks he knows what time is but if someone were to ask him “What is time?”, he would find it difficult to answer. So it seems with the word “race”. We think we know its meaning and use the term with casual confidence. In literary theory, the Russian Formalists drew attention to the fact that language is the medium of literature, and one of the devices of literature was (through unusual use and collocation) to make strange the familiar and, therefore, draw attention. The terms “race” and “racism” need to be estranged and looked at because of their semantic shifts. ....

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