What Peter Singer thinks about racism

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

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   Our readingRacism violates equality by weighting one's own race's interests more heavily

   Their wordsThe racist violates the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of his own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race.

   ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book