Ao rotularmos as pessoas, agimos com elas de um modo que instiga o próprio comportamento que nos incomoda, que então consideramos uma confirmação da avaliação que fizemos. Já que aqueles estudantes sabiam que tinham sido classificados de “desajustados social e emocionalmente”, ao entrar na sala não me surpreendi que a maioria estivesse debruçada na

He distrusted simplistic narratives of good and evil. He rejected the idea that anybody could be defined by virtue of the group to which they belong. He was deeply worried about the way in which prevailing discourses exerted power over every single member of society. And he hated the

Denial is just a label and labels are themselves a tool of denial, allowing us to dismiss difficult things unprocessed, based on the name of the thing and not the thing itself.