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We’re very jumpy about racism, and that’s a good sign

By Dan Hannan
Published July 17, 2017 4:01am ET
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We’re very jumpy about racism, and that’s a good sign
On almost every measure, Western societies have become more tolerant. Racial violence has declined. Lynchings are part of an almost unimaginable past, and ethnically-motivated assaults are at an all-time low. The legal and quasi-legal forms of discrimination and segregation that persisted into the 1960s have been dismantled. | wildpixel

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