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Racism is a full-blown normative theory in its own right. Writing it off as just “hate” which needs “love” to combat it can be a little bit reductionist; it can stop us from understanding it.

— Abigail Thorn

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Harry Potter is a bit of a bourgeois fantasy.

Ideologies are like arseholes: everyone's got one, we use it every day, but you very rarely look at your own unless something's gone wrong.

It's always good to squat over the mirror and take a good, hard look at your own ideology sometimes. 'Cause if you don't do the thinking someone else will do the thinking for you.

If you ask three philosophers how social constructs work, you'll get four theories.

I look inside myself and I ask, "Do I feel like a man or a woman?" And the answer is... I feel happy.

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Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.

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One of the strategies of racism is to confuse the victims into believing all their victories should be awarded to the oppressor.

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