Monday, 28 March 2016 – Francois Bonnet Today we feature Francois’ response to Kendra Briken’s rejoinder on his podcast The Monday Morning Meetings on Migration (4M) organizers have asked me to provide a short written commentary on Kendra Briken’s podcast, “Room for a Feminist Anti-racism after Cologne? A rejoinder to Francois Bonnet”. At start, thank…
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Room for a Feminist Anti-racism after Cologne? A rejoinder to Francois Bonnet.
March 21, 2016 – Kendra Briken Last month, Francois Bonnet gave us his thoughts on the Cologne attacks. He argued that Cologne was a major blow to the Feminist left in Europe and encouraged us to see the police response to the violence as an act of performing non-racism. In this week’s podcast, Kendra Briken of the…
Cologne and the Art of Not Being a Racist
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’.