“The will to insist upon a definite, unimpeachable reading of an incident - which might well have been read in other, more generous ways - was a mark of a bewildering denial: a denial of the imagination that, liberated to do its proper work, can lead us in alternative directions.” KindnessJudgmentEmpathyDenialAmbiguityBenefit Of The DoubtCharitable Interpretation Book:The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies Source: The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
“We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.” SelfIdentityJudgmentPerceptionSubjectivitySelf ConceptMisunderstandings Book:The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies Source: The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies