On Sexism, Racism, Ageism and other Bigotries

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

April 2017 EDITORIAL
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A racist act is the conscious effort by one group identity to effectively reduce the social status and the security, the rights and the privileges, and the integrity and dignity of another group identity.The intended dynamic is two-fold, and lies firstly in the racist’s aim to reinforce a group identity, affiliation to which he or she imagines to be personally beneficial; and secondly through the unilateral conjuring of a contradistinctive group identity and the simultaneous ascription of affiliation to that...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.


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