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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have been programmed to respond to the human difference between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.
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institutionalized
profit
outsiders
difference
rejection
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Audre Lorde |
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I can't beat you, I can't join you.
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maturation
outsiders
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Harper Lee |
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"As a committed Christian, I have always struggled with locked doors--doors by which we on the inside lock out "the others"--Jews, Muslims, Mormons, liberals, doubters, agnostics, gay folks, whomever. The more we insiders succeed in shutting others out, the more I tend to feel locked in, caged, trapped."
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outsiders
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Brian D. McLaren |
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.
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irony
losers
minorities
outsiders
oppression
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Christopher Hitchens |
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The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.
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outsiders
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Alexandra Robbins |
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"My stomach gave a violent start and turned into a hunk of ice. The world was spinning around me, and blobs of faces and visions of things past were dancing in the red mist that covered the lot. It swirled into a mass of colors and I felt myself swaying on my feet. Someone cried, "Glory, look at the kid!" And the ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly."
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hinton
the
spinning
outsiders
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S.E. Hinton |