Many in this category offer ‘merit’ as a justification for this attitude without paying attention to their privileges that add up to the creation of ‘merit’, which is then considered ‘impartial’. Their cultural and social capital becomes
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“A minor bureaucrat’s demand for payment to process a form is condemned as corruption. A national leader’s sweetheart privatization of public assets to friends and relatives is applauded as market liberalization.”
― The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto
― The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto
“The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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