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Jason Jeffries
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the lessons to be taken from the British experience were almost entirely cautionary ones. That was not a baton that the Americans were grasping but a can of worms.
“Nazi authorities never decided what to do with Jews in mixed marriages in Germany owing to “Aryan” partners’ reactions, which included a major protest in Berlin in February 1943.6”
― HITLER’S SHADOW - Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War
― HITLER’S SHADOW - Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War
“Inexplicably to many whites, blacks continued to express dissatisfaction.”
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
― This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
“no approximately correct history of civilization can ever be written which does not throw out in bold relief, as one of the great landmarks of political and social progress, the organization and administration of the Freedmen's Bureau.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“But the problem is even worse.”
― Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019
― Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019
“Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.”
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
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