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Why I have to take a break from this book, https://www.washingtonpost.com/scienc...

I heard about this book on Behind the Bastards

This is fascinating. Useful for my women and war course this term

"We are all Treaty people who share responsibility for taking action on reconciliation."

"Basil seeds can be fickle when it comes to germinating. The ancient Romans believed basil grew best if you cursed and screamed as you sowed the seeds." So...I missed the screaming part?

"Are we saying that what's in their pockets is more likely to determine what they do with their lives than what's in their hearts? What do we really mean we tell a government that our kids will be more vulnerable to destructive influences if they don't have jobs? What does that mean to allow a government to say that to us?"

"...that while the question of forgiveness for the individual abuser can be reflected upon, the system that produced him, protected him, and enabled him can never be forgiven.”

Excerpt From: Anonymous. “Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo.” Verso. iBooks.
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"“#MeToo, then, while on the surface appears as the personal breakthrough of brave individuals, actually exposed not just the violent manager or boss, but the institutions that enable the boss, and the system that enforces silence.”"

Excerpt From: Anonymous. “Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo.” Verso. iBooks.
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"I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others--because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward."

"Sibling sexual abuse is the most widespread form of sexual abuse within families...About half of adolescents who sexually assault another person, assault a sibling."

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2773...

Available for free on Verso bookstore

"With the indignities of the TSA scanner and the watchful eye of drones overhead, middle-class white men are finally getting a taste of what women, poor people, and racial and sexual minorities have long known about the burden of living under supervision."