Tag Archives: intolerance

Trump, “Vermin” and Terry Pratchett

By Robin Bates | Published: January 9, 2024

In “Snuff” one of Terry Pratchett’s angriest book, the author takes on racism, ethnocentrism, and intolerance.

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Trump as Yeats’s Rough Beast

By Robin Bates | Published: December 20, 2015

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar accuses Donald Trump of being the actual terrorist and compares him to Yeats’s “rough beast” in “The Second Coming.”

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Bigotry = A Loathsome Lack of Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: July 2, 2012

Murakami says that the worst thing about bigots is that they are hollow men devoid of imagination.

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