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If you’ve spent fifteen or twenty or fifty years using words or ideas that you didn’t realize were harmful,

Posted on January 4, 2012 at 5:43am by admin No Comment

but today, someone tells you that they are, you don’t have to feel bad about the last x years. Start today. Learn to do it differently. Let this be the turning point. It might take some time to get it right, but there’s no reason to refuse to try not to harm people. Sometimes, that…

Quote: On Not Being Racist

Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:07am by admin No Comment

  Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a racist; not being racist — or a sexist or a homophobe — is a constant, arduous process of unlearning, of being uncomfortable, of eating crow and being humbled and re-evaluating. It’s probably hard to start that…