Sublime

The artifacts that we wear, the behaviors we adopt, and the coded language that we use are outward representations of our worldview.

“good white liberals often use their guilt and shame to exploit class differences among whites, which allows them to efface their own complicity in white racism and white domination” and “[W]hite trash share too many similarities of speech, behavior, diet, and lifestyle with black people.

racism—like sexism and other forms of oppression—occurs when a racial group’s prejudice is backed by legal authority and institutional control.

were best suited to play, given their talents, interests, and personal responsibilities.For most of our history, the ideal of "community" drove the black model for leadership and group participation. Blacks were enslaved as a community, we were disenfranchised as a community, we had been terrorized as a community. We responded to all thes

“Japan is a society of groups, not individuals.”

Ortega held the process to be the driving force of history. The “reciprocal action between the masses and select minorities,” he wrote, “is the fundamental fact of every society and the agent of its evolution for good or evil.” Ortega’s masses we now call the public. By “select minorities” he meant the admirable few: elites who, at their best, lavi

Social scientists have to decide, every time they do research, what to call the things they study. If they choose the terms decided on by the interested and powerful parties already involved in the situations they are studying, they accept all the presuppositions built into that language.

An ideology is usually a high-minded mask for a group’s itch to take power and resources from other social groups.

People who believe themselves of social consequence tend to leave more of a paper trail,