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Since antiracists posit that the racial groups are already civilized, antiracist policies are geared toward reducing racial inequities and creating equal opportunity.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
In these trails we can see disability as bodily injury impacting many species. We can see the way that injury is shaped by social inequality. We can see disability as a lived experience leveraged to provide evidence of harm and wrongdoing, or, in contrast, as a moralizing concept utilized to direct blame back onto the injured themselves.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
looking closely at how different ecosystems are defined as impaired based on “intended use,” we can find that, as with legislative definitions of human disability in the US, the inability to work, to be able to labor and produce capital, is essential for how and when ecosystems are defined as impaired in US policy.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means
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Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist
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Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a
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