How’s this for the ‘balance and objectivity’ that the United States Studies Centre claims to provide as an ‘objective and authoritative’ source of research and study of the US: ‘Trump’s election legitimises racism in America’. On Sky News’ Paul Murray Live on last November’s election night, this five second grab from one of USSC’s top academics is just one demonstration of the triumph of emotional, highly subjective, self-indulgent, politically-based personal prejudice over the rational academic analysis that the USSC was created to provide.
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