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“Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.”
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- Rob”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“Claiming to be silenced amplifies and circulates reactionary forms of speech by generating outrage. And this manoeuvre works not because reactionary feminists are speaking truth to power and being accused of transphobia, but because they are speaking for power by expressing transphobia.”
― Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
― Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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