Life is simple when you’re racist. Explaining why Indians work in retail, black people are footballers and Jewish people are financiers is as easy as saying “it’s in their blood”. Serious sociological, statistical and economic analysis is a foreign concept in such a life. In fact, public policy is no more difficult. Just lock up black people, kick the immigrants out, keep an eye on the Jews and close the Mosques to solve the nation’s problems.
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A Brief History of Thoughts About the Past
The idea for a blog began almost three years ago, during my study abroad year in Hong Kong. I was deeply inspired by the book The Future of Nature, a collection of documents and commentaries related to climate change in history that was completely irrelevant to my course of study at the time. The chief focus of the book, the concept of ‘global change’, became the centre of my argument in the first post: Why Global Change Is More Important Than Climate Change.
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