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The technocracy attempted, however poorly, to address the condition of the collapsing African American family. No such concern is forthcoming from the technocracy today concerning the white working class.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The feminist movement was an attempt to break into “a man’s world”—and in the process, through envy, accepted to an alarming extent the values of men.20
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Polars will be the first generation with a non-White majority.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
The mass society’s need for conformity was interpreted as a fascist repression that made the id and its desires for freedom, power, and the erotic dirty.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The American Dream remains defined by whiteness and masculinity, no matter who occupies the role; our most rewarded and celebrated leaders, even if they are not…
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Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
The whole right-wing trend is people who want to look upstanding while they go home and do as much weird stuff as they can get away with.”17
Neil Slaven • Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa
Russians could destroy the United States not only by atomic attack but through internal subversion.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
The most astonishing thing about these books was that Dick and Jane and Baby Sally lived in a house with nothing around it but a white wooden fence, so flimsy and low that anyone at all could climb over it. There were no Angels, there were no Guardians. Dick and Jane and Baby Sally played outside in full view of everyone. Baby Sally could have been
... See moreMargaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
She couldn’t tell what unnerved her more, picturing a colored family moving in or imagining what might be done to stop them.