Professor Kyle
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Racism, bigotry, & hate aren't aberrations we can swat away. They're sewn deep into the fabric of society, stemming from colonialism, patriarchy, & white/cishet supremacy. We have to acknowledge, understand, & take action – not merely claim "we're better than this" when we're so obviously not – yet.
Professor Kyle @blackcatprose
"This is not who we are" is such a copout statement. If that were true, then the awful things you're supposedly appalled at wouldn't've happened. Just saw a letter to the ed. using that phrase to claim a bigoted select board member doesn't represent the town...a town that voted her in overwhelmingly
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Vee a lot of everything Happened
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In response to Professor Kyle.
IMO "This is not who we are" is a cop out in order to avoid facing the facts and addressing the issues.
10:17 AM - Nov 23, 2023
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Vee a lot of everything Happened.
Exactly.
10:38 AM - Nov 23, 2023
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William Tulloch
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In response to Professor Kyle.
They all stem from the greatest strength and most damaging weakness in humanity - tribalism. We wouldn't have been able to form self-supporting communities without tribal affinities, but we wouldn't have bigotry, nationalism or their horrifying end points either.
10:08 AM - Nov 23, 2023
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Lisa Himmel
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The hatred, violence and bigotry is exactly who we are and who this country has always been, from the treatment of Native Americans, to slavery and Jim Crow. Unless you were a wealthy, white, Christian male, you were not worthy. We just keep hoping that we have evolved and become better.
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