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If I ever become a parent I will never push them past conversational neutrality. I will respect their emotions, I will let them vent to me all they want. I will uplift them in every way I know how.

I won’t ever be someone who can’t hold their anger or resentment back for a second since they didn’t consent to being here. Fear-based learning will end with me too.

It’s disgusting.

“The Chinese just weren’t interested. The first Chinese world map to show America was not issued until 1602 — and then by a European missionary!”

lol

Recap of history, that I forgot about. Bacon’s rebellion— to overthrow the planter elite, & seize Native land and nullify Indian raids.

“Although slaves clearly occupied the lowest position in the social hierarchy and suffered the most under the plantation system, the condition of indentured whites was barely better, and the majority of free whites lived in extreme poverty.”

I suggest getting the 10th anniversary edition to read the XLV preface.

He skipped Zoroastrianism? #Iran #Persia

Some people have no idea what social isolation or loneliness is and it shows lol

The New Jim Crow is up next on my reading list since I live in TN and they are gerrymandering / redistricting.

Trying my hardest to look past how most women I’ve ever met or known have been evil.

The south is just full of them I still want to be a feminist but I will need a lot of new coping mechanisms.

Start Dune, Red Rising, or LOTR tomorrow??

Marketed liberals that are republicans in this area are just bourgeois fascists, but I do respect people that’s been through struggle and also sympathetic. I’d elect those people in

Thought it would be a tough read with the prologues family tree at the start. Page 236 with 3 bookmarked pages for cross-references. But I am newer to reading.

Hard to put down!

I did not read Jade City to give it 5 stars as I was only reading the description because I seen it in an Instagram reel.

I must’ve been half asleep and only noticed it now.