Cologne and the Art of Not Being a Racist

February 22, 2016 – Francois Bonnet

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On New Years Eve 2016 German police received hundreds of complaints of crimes including sexual assaults and robberies occurring in the vicinity of the Cologne Central Railway station. Many blamed recently arrived asylum seekers for the attacks. In this week’s podcast  Francois Bonnet of the CNRS, explains why we have struggled to balance our righteous indignation at the attacks with our fear of being labelled a ‘racist’.

Bonnet and Caillaullt’s article in Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies

 

 

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