People of mixed race are not the only ones disappointed; people in all racial groups have felt the shocks and pangs of South Africa's slow and painful progress from authoritarian, racist rule to multicultural democracy.
The purveyors of authoritarian, racist, and xenophobia solutions are indeed condemnable.
It is not only the delegate selection rules that nominated an authoritarian, racist, misogynist, anti-immigrant demagogue as the Republican presidential nominee.
The state building that created modern France, he suggests, began as early as the Third Republic (1870-1940) and continued under Vichy (1940-1944), which, though rightly thought of as an authoritarian and racist regime, also developed many of the cultural norms and institutions still in place today.
Racists may be a lot of other things -- hateful, insecure -- but let's not sugar-coat what most fair-minded thinkers believe in their hearts: A person of intelligence cannot embrace such authoritarian and racist views.
As Europe dithers in the face of the authoritarians and racists, the populations in the mature democracies that founded the EU should insist: our grandparents didn't defeat fascism in 1945 to see it weasel back into the mainstream now, dressed in suits instead of uniforms, but trailing the same pathetic victimhood that excused the crimes of the past.
Suddenly, it was the secularists who seemed stodgy: racist, authoritarian, élitist, and slavishly pro-Western.
Sattouf's father, who died before the book came out, is an awful authoritarian, macho and racist, yet also somehow touching.
In a previous era, when neoliberal austerity was first being prepared in tandem with a racist, authoritarian crackdown, Greek political sociologist Nicos Poulantzas spoke of the "redeployment of legal-police networks" as a constitutive element in a new "authoritarian statism".
The dismal truth is that one third of the electorate in the land of Hitler's birth now support an authoritarian, neo-Nazi, racist demagogue and his morally repulsive policies.
To stop Hillary Clinton it also took Julian Assange, using WikiLeaks as a tool of revenge, evidently considering his grudge against the Democratic nominee important enough to try to aid the campaign of a climate-denying racist authoritarian.
