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As Baginsky puts it, state control 'degrades the proletariat, relegates it to the role of the patiently and passively waiting client who becomes a plaything, a guinea pig in the hands of the lawyers' (2015: 14).

Prefigurative Politics

Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin

The belief that individuals are capable of suspending prejudice when making legal or medical decisions, or the belief that knowledge inevitably increases one’s rationality: these are inheritances of an Enlightenment era marked by the assumption that prejudice can and should be tamed by making knowledge more universally accessible. But...what about when people do not wish to know? Thus rendering some people even more vulnerable, more at risk of exploitation or unjust punishment by legal systems that purport to function free of prejudice?

Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies; Second Edition

Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey (eds)

__According to prevailing Western social norms, having a particularly strong ability to reason and to rise above the influence of emotions is a distinguishing trait of not only whiteness, but also masculinity, and the higher classes.__ Where feminine people are stereotypically seen in Western societies as emotional and whimsical, masculine people are typically viewed as more level-headed and analytical.

Prefigurative Politics

Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin

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