The Washington Post, December 18th, 2007
"A court in country X sentenced a black man who had been severely beaten by white men to six months in jail and 200 lashes." How would you react if you read that in a newspaper? Shock, horror, anger at the regime in country X, no doubt. And once you learned that punishing blacks for associating with whites is routine in country X, you might even get angrier. You might call for sanctions, you might insist that country X not participate in the Olympics. You might demand that country X be treated like apartheid- era South Africa. In fact the sentence is real -- almost. When originally published o...
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