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Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
“Music should be censored,” said Moissaye Boguslawski of the Chicago Symphony. “There is censorship for the film and for the stage, yet none for music, for which it is even more needed. I believe much recent criminal endeavor by youths has to a degree been influenced by jazz. Americans probably would not be so highly flattered if they knew they were paying tribute to the music of Africa.”
― Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
― Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
“Dwight Eisenhower had said: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”
― A People's History of the United States
― A People's History of the United States
“Samuel Morse, the man for whom the Morse Code was named, was convinced immigrants were destroying America. “A conspiracy exists … its plans are already in operation,” he wrote. “The serpent has already commenced his coil about our limbs, and the lethargy of his poison is creeping over us … We must awake, or we are lost.”
― Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
― Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
“The bigoted propagandists of the alt-right are wrong about almost everything, but they are correct about this much: the United States of America was founded by white men, for white men. The problem with the bigots is not that they acknowledge this aspect of the country’s history; the problem is that they cling to it,”
― Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
― Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
“Some on the left still found it comforting to assume that every Trump supporter was a shiftless rube under a demagogue’s spell. The reality I’d seen so far was more unnerving in its complexity. The leaders of the Deplorable movement were deeply wrong on many fundamental questions, both empirical and ethical, but they weren’t guileless or stupid. They were deft propagandists who, having recognized that social media was creating an unprecedented power vacuum, had set out to exploit it.”
― Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
― Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
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