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Flesh, eyes, skin—the physical and the psychic—have shaped the language of racist violence. In Indonesia, too.

Goenawan Mohamad

April 12, 2021

RACISM grows from a festering sore. Traces of psychic wounds exist as a result of latent paranoia and anxious politics. This is why racism can appear wild and irrational, but at the same time it is able to be strategic and formulate rationale.

Every now and then that festering sore—infectious—causes fever and delirium. It seems this is what makes ‘racism’ explode into terrifying action that makes the discourse of hat

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