Bridget O

“To describe someone as a “criminal” is both to mark that person with a terrifying permanent character trait and simultaneously to place the person outside the circle of “us.” They are criminals. We make mistakes.”
― Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to do what science will do, free from morality, free from ethical concerns, and most of all, free from the petty worry that it will not be believed. Belief has shaped the history of human accomplishment—we believe we can, and so we do—but belief has never changed the natural world. The mountain does not vanish because we believe it should. The unicorn does not appear because we believe it will.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Fascist politics feeds off the sense of aggrieved victimization caused by loss of hierarchal status.”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“In fascist politics, women who do not fit traditional gender roles, nonwhites, homosexuals, immigrants, “decadent cosmopolitans,” those who do not have the dominant religion, are in their very existence violations of law and order. By describing black Americans as a threat to law and order, demagogues in the United States have been able to create a strong sense of white national identity that requires protection from the nonwhite “threat.”
― Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them