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“A lot of my job is helping people heal from the trauma of interacting with the medical system,” says Ginette Lenham, a counselor who specializes in obesity. The rest of it, she says, is helping them heal from the trauma of interacting with everyone else.
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - The Huffington Post
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Menschen, die sagen, sie würden nicht sexistisch oder rassistisch sein, glaube ich meist nicht.
Ich muss jeden Tag gegen meinen inneren Rassismus und Sexismus usw kämpfen. Wie einen Muskel muss ich aktiv mit Reflexion und innerer Korrektur dagegen antrainieren.
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One should resolve one’s doubts, examine conflicting evidence, and determine motives behind the scenes, and carry on any disputes with one’s sources in the reference notes, not in the text. For one thing, this keeps the author invisible and the less his presence is felt, the greater is the reader’s sense of immediacy to the events. For another thing, by eliminating discussion one establishes a tone of this-is-the-way-it-was which the reader quickly accepts. He does not want to be bothered by a lot of maybes and perhapses, on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand; he wants to follow along with the action, feeling confident this was the way things happened.
Practicing History
Barbara W. Tuchman
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