The take: “Slavery was not that bad. Slaves were fed and housed. Some slave owners were kind. It was a different time.”Who said it: Various apologists, Lost Cause mythologizers, and a shocking number of American polit...
Continue readingPaulo Freire was a Brazilian educator who taught poor people to read and got exiled for it. Which is not surprising perse with the similar amount of events like that across the globe but this also tells you everything...
Continue readingNothing is allowed to just be a thing anymore. Everything wants to be everything.
Continue readingbell hooks (she refused to capitalize her name because she wanted people to focus on her ideas, not her brand) was an American writer who spent her career building bridges between feminism, anti-racism, and class poli...
Continue reading“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”— George Orwell, 1984
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