"[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots."

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Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us from epidemics. These things cross borders. But the kind of cooperation that would protect us from those things was completely lacking and because of this there's been a backlash. People feel vulnerable.

— Mohsin Hamid