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Autocrats Stoking Racial Tensions to Their Advantage
The racist discourse of the Polish government has caused a drop in support for resettling refugees and has demonized migrants as violent criminals. Trump instituted an Islamophobic travel ban and promised to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Modi’s economic policies have routinely erased Muslim Indians from consideration. All three cases demonstrate attacks on the civil liberties of members of minority groups, a key tenet of liberal democracy.
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Updated 2021-07-07
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