Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe cares about white or black humans, it seems, and what meaning could physical appearance possibly have when there are sentient beings that look like lobsters or like Jabba the Hutt? Unfortunately, in the real world, such hopeful sentiments are regularly refuted by our stubborn insistence on always finding someone to discriminate against.
Garry KasparovI now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.
Garry KasparovI would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
Garry KasparovBesides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.
Garry KasparovSolving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.
Garry KasparovWhere do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible.
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