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Kalwant Bhopal finds that the brave progressive new world technology enthusiasts have promised us is just as tainted by racism as the familiar analogue world
Hardly a day goes by when we are not confronted with stories of racism. Accounts in the media of black families targeted on the basis of their skin colour are as routine as they are depressing. Much of this seems unsurprising when a British prime minister describes Muslim women wearing veils as “absolutely ridiculous” for choosing to “go around looking like letterboxes”. Or when the president of the United States is comfortable telling four minority congresswomen to “go back to the crime infested places from which they came”.
It is all too obvious we are living in dark times. Ruha Benjamin contributes to our understanding of the dangers of racism in the 21st century in her illuminating account of...