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The Racist Fantasy

Why Theory

CHAPTER

The Political Enemy of Racism

Todd: I think it gets a little jargony and nominalist if you say the racist political fantasy because then yeah doesn't that become if like to say that was. Todd: It is interesting though isn't it that but that racism has the same phantasmatic structure as stamp collecting or as model buildings kind of interesting. He says he used to build models when he was a kid, now there's no interest in them after they're finished. "I don't think people think their time is more valuable than baseball card collecting i did all these stupid hobbies of the time"

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