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“What does it mean when I say that 'I don't see race?' It means that because I learned to see no difference between 'white' and 'color,' I have white-washed my own sense of self. It means that I know more about what it is to be a white person than what it is to be Asian, and I am a stranger among both.”
― Michi Trota

“Therein lies the most common trap we fall into when trying to make the internet a safer place: framing it as a war of good people versus bad people instead of looking at acceptable and unacceptable ways to treat each other. 'Good people' get off the hook for doing bad things, while 'bad people' aren't considered worth understanding or empathizing with and aren't encouraged to progress, evolve, and do better.
The question isn't 'What the hell is wrong with those people?' It's 'What the hell is wrong with us?'
Or even 'What the hell was wrong with me?”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone