“If I believe that only bad people are racist, I will feel hurt, offended, and shamed when an unaware racist assumption of mine is pointed out. If I instead believe that having racist assumptions is inevitable (but possible to change), I will feel gratitude when an unaware racist assumption is pointed out; now I am aware of and can change that assumption.”
― White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
― White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“The publicists of mass-production economics have successfully altered public taste to believe it doesn’t make sense to repair something old when for the same price you can have something new.”
― The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
― The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“If our commitment to an agenda is so passionate that we will rewrite the history that does not support it, we have become a blind slave to a rogue agenda that will destroy us in the service of it.”
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“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.”
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They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.”
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“The collapse of the distinction between truth and fiction (and the confusion that this engenders) opens the door for fascist, totalitarian forces—both out in the world and within our own minds—to control and manipulate us.”
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