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Stranger danger? Xenophobia’s unexpected history

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Are We Xenophobes?

When do people start to begin poking holes in that idea, you know, that perhaps maybe we are xenophobes ourselves? Yes, exactly. That's, that's a perfect question. It's precisely tied to racial science, so that this term seemed to not be utterly ironic, as you say, xenophobic use of xenophobia. But then what happens is it ramifies with the report that roger caseman brings back from the congo, where these people who are supposedly a simply primitives whom we must oppress - and they attack us as strangers, are essentially a genicide. So the the terms start to look shaky, and xenophobia starts to be re purposed by liberals

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