> Michael Smith: ‘Oddly enough, Doug, I believe you're the first person so far to have used the term 'racism' in connection with Hitchens.’
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> no, that was Eric Beck, quoting Richard Seymour’s obituary http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20111212/016473.html
I stand corrected. Somebody was bound to start that hare sooner or later. Glad it wasn't Doug.
Granted that Hitch was a frother on the subject of Islam, I think we need some new conceptual tools to describe this particular kind of craziness.
'Racism' seems dated, and to do Hitch & Co. credit, they don't seem to have had a racial theory about it.
(Dawkins aside, of course. I wouldn't put anything past Mr Selfish Gene.)
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