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mean he wanted to drag another human back into bondage. The law turned people apathetic on slavery into hard-line abolitionists. It was a propaganda boon for the abolitionist cause. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the anti-slavery best seller "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in response. 3/

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I was gonna pick on an LATimes piece ("Affirmative action challenges aren’t about ending discrimination. Their goal is white supremacy") but the author wrote “Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda” and I hate Stephen Miller so she gets a pass.

Carl

I used to feel bad about blocking. Now I've kinda come to like it. I've gone blood simple. "This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood simple" — Dashiell Hammett, in 'Red Harvest' https://t.co/WLAaW8Ev9L https://t.co/lS6wrjV3Pd

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"Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison." Milan Kundera—The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Part of the appeal of Social Justice Politics is that social justice is a good thing! Bigotry is bad. 95% of us know this. Martin Luther King was a hero and Stonewall a rebellion against real oppression. The problem isn't being anti-bigot, it's how it misframes that struggle. 4/

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To folks who say the right doesn't want to whitewash history, Youngkin ran a political ad with that white lady saying she was upset that her school was teaching bad stuff. What the ad doesn't say is the bad stuff she objected to was Toni Morrison's "Beloved." That's whitewashing.

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@Noahpinion Well, Jeremy Bentham said the idea of "rights" was "nonsense upon stilts," and Peter Singer, following in Bentham's Utilitarian tradition, wrote "Animal Liberation," which I think means I can call Jordan Peterson "nonsense without stilts." That's how this philosophy stuff works.

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The Civil War divided North and South but not all officers stuck with their section. General Pemberton, from Pennsylvania, fought for the South (influenced by his Virginian wife). General George Thomas and Admiral Farragut were both Virginians who served the Union. 1/

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I'm a fox. Isaiah Berlin wrote, "The Hedgehog and the Fox" (1953) describing two ways of viewing the world. The hedgehog has a single defining lens (Marxism, Christianity, anti-racism). A fox sees those things but thinks the world is more chaotic and less easily pigeonholed. 1/

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@IonaItalia Anne Tyler writes solid stories of human connections. The Accidental Tourist Digging to America Ladder of Years