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“But the people who did get that love, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they’re not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it’s not because they’re not interesting. They just don’t feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don’t have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“fascist politics creates a state of unreality, in which conspiracy theories and fake news replace reasoned debate.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
“When universities are as expensive as they are in the United States, their generous liberal visions are easy targets for fascist demagoguery. Under conditions of stark economic inequality, when the benefits of liberal education, and the exposure to diverse cultures and norms, are available only to the wealthy few, liberal tolerance can be smoothly represented as elite privilege. Stark economic inequality creates conditions richly conducive to fascist demagoguery. It is fantasy to think that liberal democratic norms can flourish under such conditions.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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