Month: January 2017
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Quotation by Elizabeth Catte.
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Am still shaking my head over the new administration’s discriminatory ban on Muslims entering the United States. It was no surprise after the hateful rhetoric of the election season, but announcing it on Holocaust Remembrance Day? And not mentioning Jews in a statement about the Holocaust? I wish I could…
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Quotation by Christopher Browning on Trump taking office.
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Photograph of a protest sign at the Women’s March in Washington, DC: “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
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I have been learning new terms these past months. Today it was “alternative facts,” which goes together with an older term, apparently repurposed for our current political and cultural moment—“gaslighting.” I saw the latter term on a protest sign at the Women’s March yesterday.
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Quotation by Ludwik Fleck on the social nature of cognition.
