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#1 Racism is when you discriminate against someone based on their race, creed, or color. It is not limited to race, and it is always rooted in power.
#2 Racism is the assertion of superiority in order to discriminate. It is the defense of unequal treatment based on the perceived idea of race. It is a fairly modern idea that came to full realization in the Western...
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#1 As a child growing up in the seventies and early eighties in New York, Wisconsin, and Northern Virginia, I was often the target of curiosity from white children and adults. They wanted to make sense of me, so they asked where I was from.
#2 I am the Wooly-Haired, Medium-Brown-skinned offspring typical when Blacks and whites have sex. I come from people who broke...
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#1 To find your power, you must first break through the delusions you are forced to ignore as a woman of color working in corporate environments. Delusions are so-called rules that have been set up around you. They are stories you have been told to make you believe and act a certain way.
#2 The truth is, Corporate America has never fostered true equity for women of color,...
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#1 The inexpressible is contained in the expressed. This idea gets less attention than his more reverential Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent, but it is the deeper idea.
#2 I had spent a lifetime dedicated to the belief that words are not enough. I argued that words do more than simply name things. I read aloud to you the opening of Philosophical Investigations.
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#1 It is impossible to have a radical philosophy without first sounding like a lunatic or a moron. Most radical philosophies are lunacy, and the rest are moronic. To proclaim earnestly that the status quo needs to be changed drastically is an enormously high task.
#2 All anarchy does is solve one major problem in interpersonal relationships: the forceful interjection...
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#1 The 112th Congress was exciting and chaotic, and it was difficult to learn the ropes and rules of the house. But you must absolutely hit the ground running, as you must assemble a staff both in your home district and in Washington.
#2 I had established myself as an ideological leader within the conference, and I wanted Paul to sign a book for me. He had roadmaps for...
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#1 The German tombstone shortage is because the government controls death and funerals, and they require embalming before burial. This leads to a darkly humorous saying: If you feel unwell, take a vacation-you can't afford to die in Germany.
#2 Slavery is a great way to keep your costs down, but there is another reason why the granite is so cheap: the quarries...
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#1 The director of the Clinic for Radiation Medicine in Moscow, Angelina Gus'kova, was the first person to hear about the Chernobyl accident. She treated patients who were nauseous and weak, with reddened skin, and one who was already vomiting. The diagnosis was typical signs of acute radiation sickness.
#2 In the 1950s, the first civilian nuclear power plants...
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#1 I was a credulous child. I believed the televangelists were right because somebody allowed them to speak on television, and my grandma nodded along while they spoke, grunting in agreement. I woke every morning with the fear that this could be the day people disappear.
#2 The ongoing movement for Black lives is a reflection of the world's reckoning with death-dealing...
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#1 The Broward County, Florida, school system began testing all second graders in 2005. As a result, the number of gifted African American children in the district skyrocketed 80 percent, and that of gifted Hispanic children skyrocketed 130 percent.
#2 The widespread belief that IQ limits are innate and permanent affects the lives of people like Edgar, who are...
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#1 The Teleological Argument states that the universe must have been designed by an intelligent creator because it is too complex to have arisen by chance. However, many scientists and philosophers have shown that complex systems can arise without a designer.
#2 The idea of complexity by design is flawed because it assumes that all complex things require an intelligent...
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#1 Frazier's 1957 sociological study of the Black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie, was immediately controversial. It accused the Black middle class of being an insecure and powerless group constantly constructing a world of make-believe to deal with an inferiority complex caused by the brutal history of racial domination in the United States.
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#1 I didn't know what was happening because I was too focused on work, but later learned that the towers had been attacked.
#2 I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, when the towers got attacked. I witnessed the collapse of both towers, and the death of my friend Joe. I was never the same after that.
#3 9/11 was the event that catalyzed my own personal transformation....
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#1 Ageism is the discrimination against older people, and it is pervasive in American society. It is a combination of prejudicial attitudes towards older people, old age, and aging itself.
#2 As modernity took root in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, older members of society were reduced to a status of social inferiority. The young United States was a gerontocracy, where older...
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#1 I like to travel, and I'm good at finding potential puns. I don't keep track of disappointments, and I like parties but I don't really like them.
#2 Sasha's language interest was in language itself, its shape and structure. She was interested in the fact that adding an s at the end of the word cat made it plural. English, on the other hand, poses a challenge for people...
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#1 Beards are more trustworthy. Men with beards are seen as more trustworthy. Americans have a pro-beard bias.
#2 People are only biased because that is how they are hardwired. The scientists who study human behavior believe that bias exists as a human survival mechanism. We must understand that our friends, family, and colleagues are human and are designed to have bias.
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#1 I was three years old when my parents moved me and my brother from Baghdad to Columbus, Ohio. I was taken out of daycare centers because of some incident, and I had to pee in my pants while sitting at the lunch table.
#2 I had a very strong aversion to milk, which led to me not drinking it. I also avoided group restroom times at day care because of the way the kids...
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#1 I have always believed that the choice you make after a traumatic event changes your life forever. I was arrested for robbing and murdering two people, but I was found guilty of the crime by a jury. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered. But they had the wrong guy.
#2 I was working the night shift in a locked warehouse when the manager at a Quincy's restaurant was abducted,...
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#1 I was the quintessential class bully at St. Damian Elementary School. I took great pleasure in routinely tormenting my eighth-grade classmates. I was target of Jake's taunts that day.
#2 I had to fight Jake Reilly, a bully, in eighth grade. I didn't have any friends in Oak Forest, and I was alone against him and his cronies. I prayed one of the teachers would stop...
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#1 There are two ways to experience the police in America: as the people you call when there is a problem, or as the people who are called on you. For many, the police are the ones who are called on them.
#2 I was a college student at the time, and I was carrying weed to a Republican convention. I was almost caught, but fortunately nothing bad came out of it. With the...
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