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For every attempt made by marginalized people to express anguish and seek change for historical (and ongoing) harm, there’s always pushback from those who demand that we suffer only in the expected ways, express that suffering with an
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“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
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to your informed opinion.”
― Kill the Dog: The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth
― Kill the Dog: The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth
“Lee Atwater, a Republican consultant and the Paganini of the modern political dog whistle, once explained the Southern Strategy, a ploy by which his party used coded racism to appeal to white voters. “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger,’” Atwater said. “By 1968, you can’t say ‘nigger’—that hurts you, it backfires—so you say stuff like ‘forced busing,’ ‘states’ rights,’ and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract.”
― Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
― Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
“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
“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
James’s 2025 Year in Books
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