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The imbalance is especially notable given that other significant phenomena--such as the lingering effects of racial oppression in the (recent) past, new eruptions of anti-black prejudice, and so-called "rational" racial discrimination (by which people, without malevolent intent, use black skin as a negative cue)--are relegated to the far margins of discussion.
(Those malevolent imps are tenacious and bothersome: Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense, was once seen by the Washington Post trying to "wriggle loose from his personal demons."
The idea that Jewish lineage is impure or malevolent reappears in Visigothic Spain in the early medieval period, and most notoriously in Nazi Germany.
According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , "The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales."
The same malevolent powers also operate in the opposite direction.