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When writing about Afghanistan, are narrators depicting categories of its history, culture and people, or producing reductive representations or stereotypes?
Slavery, racism, and Orientalism form a continuum from past to present, and sci-fi is no exception.
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In New York alone, there has been a 21 percent increase in crimes targeting Jewish people in the past year.
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