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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Portsmouth
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Christopher Eric Hitchens
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