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“I’m part white, part Black, part Japanese, part Pakistani, and all bisexual,” he said. “Just reaching for the very, very low-hanging fruit when it comes to the history of those latter population segments, I give you slavery, Japanese internment, colonization, and chemical castration. All, at some point, legal and accepted—and how? Because a lot of men claimed the right to sit around a table and bring exceptionally evil things into practice, while pretending to be polite, civilized, and moral human beings. Boards, committees, legislatures”—Beau’s hand encompassed all of them, and more—“can be the ultimate gaslighters and normalizers of the inhumane.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library