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How the right is taking culture war to culture itself

A new “mockumentary” satirises anti-racist activism

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Illustration: David Simonds

The woman has a confession to make. Over an elegant dinner, she admits to her companions that sometimes when she is out with her husband and he is “really loud” she shushes him. A normal exchange within a marriage, one might think. But she is white and he is black. Her impulse, she worries, is “probably my white supremacy talking”.

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