My Africa Memoir and America's Race Obsession

Dr. Benedict Beckeld discusses his memoir of the time he worked as a teacher in the Kalahari Desert of eastern Namibia, and explains that it will be difficult to publish because of America's obsession with race.
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Dr. Beckeld, how would you interpret, within the framework of oikophobia, Mia Khalifa's endorsement of Hamas' gory attack directed at a psychedelic music festival? She's a former adult performer who's also been hosted in the Oxford Union.

[@BenedictBeckeld]

That individual appeared at the Oxford Union? My goodness me, I’ve always thought of the Oxford Union as a complete clown college, but this only cements the impression. In any case, since she is a Lebanese Arab, I wouldn’t call her an oikophobe, since she is simply going along with the general and widespread antisemitism of her Muslim Arab culture.

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@@BenedictBeckeld What is truly befuddling is that she identifies as an American, had to flee her country of origin to achieve the levels of prosperity promised and abundantly delivered by Western civilization, and yet publicly supports a terrorist organization that would rather have her dead simply because of her profession.

[@BenedictBeckeld]

I see. That does indeed sound a bit oikophobic - immigrants to America (including me) tend to be even more pro-American and pro-Western than native-born Americans - but Arab antisemitism is so intense that it often overpowers all other considerations, as apparently in this case.