Academics at South African universities avoid the subject for fear of being branded racist, so there are no good estimates of the size of the problem.

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Just as anyone who dissents from liberal orthodoxy risks being called a racist, so too anyone who dissents from Neoconservative orthodoxy now risks being called an anti-Semite.

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This sports media leader had to decide whether to continue employing an agent with a racist message when doing so risks alienating the 70% of NFL players that are African Americans and that ESPN depends on for revenue.

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So are churlish fans: last week Spanish ones hurled racist insults at black English soccer-players.

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Mr. DINKINS: Well, I know Geraldine Ferraro, and I'm confident that she's not a racist, and I don't think she intended to make a racist comment, whether one agrees or not that Obama has done so well because he's black or not.

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