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[T]he silencing…
[T]he silencing mechanism par excellence in Left political and intellectual circles today: “Don’t play Oppression Olympics!” The Oppression Olympics dogma levels a charge amounting to little more than...
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When [an abusiv…
When [an abusive man] tells me that he became abusive because he lost control of himself, I ask him why he didn’t do something even worse. For example, I might say, “You called her a fucking whore, you...
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Of course, this…
Of course, this is one of the profound ways in which oppression works—to mire us in body hatred. Homophobia is all about defining queer bodies as wrong, perverse, immoral. Transphobia, about defining...
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And the preside…
And the president of the United States is not just an enactor of policy for today, he is the titular representative of his country’s heritage and legacy…The bearer of this unfortunate heritage feebly...
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As a child I wa…
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may...
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Tell the story …
Tell the story you need to tell. Remember that you are not writing for the moral improvement of your reader. Leave that to others. You are writing so that you and the reader can share a solidarity in...
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Thus there is a…
Thus there is a feeling, not to put too fine a point on it, that when you get right down to it, a lot of philosophy is just white guys jerking off. Either philosophy is not about real issues in the...
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James Baldwin, on white people
I will state flatly that the bulk of this country’s white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation. They have...
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Ralph Ellison, on what America would be like without Blacks
When we look objectively at how the dry bones of the nation were hung together, it seems obvious that some one of the many groups that compose the United States had to suffer the fate of being allowed...
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Be intellectual…
Be intellectually and morally rigorous in your own decision-making, and expect that the important people in your life do the same, if they want to stay important to you. –Rachel Maddow, at Smith...
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