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3rd century yoda: “”Cut yourself off you most certainly have… since the genuine schismatic is the person who has made himself an apostate from the communion and the unity of the church. While imagining it was in your power to excommunicate everyone, you have in fact succeeded in excommunicating yourself alone, from everyone else!””
and yes here’s to taking it down to the exclusivist-extremist roots

"...the country likes to present itself as a victim of British colonialism, which freed itself from tyranny and now looks to do the same for the rest of the world. But this is a delusional fantasy. The US is in fact the most extreme expression of the racist world order... Its entire existence is based on the logic of western empire"

this foreword alone is antidote to years and years of history class frustration.

“…boys didn’t head to the barricades to fight the gentry, but rather joined with the gentry to head West and fight indians and Mexicans.”

secretly the antebellum US history I’ve always wanted.

makes me laugh every time the like woke leaning 60s historian gets to switch from jfk to “lyndon baines JOHNSON 💕”. #justaudiobookthings

decided to let you all know just how very much i do not want this to be over!!! like “argh” vibes! !!

not her swooning

gag city

junior high heart of darkness like whatttttt

reflections on activist middle-school teacher daughter vs. successful- company-man father... brilliant

audiobook skipped. and to the part where he gets all mysoginist-romance-tropey? so we’ll see if i ever get back to this lol.

unreadable!!

holy shit holy shit holy shit

need the winter break segment in an iv.

the writing is kind of worryingly good here.

wait why do people read this ..?

if i can’t finish this in 24 hours i will be giving up

hilariously awful editing. hilarious, of course, because it was published by the authors own company.

“i thought blaming the lesbians for his fate was a stretch,”

omfgod