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The most successful abusers are those who can leverage systemic (economic resources, the threat of the criminalization system, reproductive control, etc.) and communal (alliances with friends and family, patriarchal social expectations, etc.) factors to gain coercive control.
Abuse Is Not Individual...
@butchanarchy on Twitter
Until Americans replace mythology with history, until Americans unveil and halt the progression of racism, an arc of the American universe will keep bending toward injustice.
The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
The reasons were stated like criminal charges. The books of Sigmund Freud, for instance, were charged with spiritual corruption and “the exaggeration and unhealthy complication of sexuality.” After reading the charge, the student threw the book into the pile while declaring, “I commit to the flames the works of Sigmund Freud!”
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
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