“We tend to demand more of #Western states and societies, implying that they are enlightened and should know better. Counterintuitively perhaps, there’s something #patronizing and #discriminatory in the very assumption that the #Russians — or #Indians, or #Chinese, or #Cubans, for that matter — have a lesser moral, cultural, and societal #capacity to grasp and grapple with #racial #injustice, (…)

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