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“Astonishing, of course, that those very terms - 'reeducation' and 'rehabilitation' - do not scare the hell out of academics who use them and hear them. That they do not call to mind the not-so-distant history of authoritarian regimes in Europe or lead on to the thought that 'diversity,' for many of us in the academy, has now come to mean a plurality of sameness. More important: the words, apparently, do not suggest how vulnerable we are - all of us - to error, slippage, and hurt, and how the protocols, tribunals, and shamings currently favored by many in the academy have distracted us from our primary obligation, which is to foster an atmosphere of candor, good will, kindness, and basic decency without which we can be of no use to one another or to our students.”

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Book:The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
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“What I know is this: The truth is ultimately life affirming. Even when it was ugly and inconvenient and has the potential to dismantle your life. It feels like relief even when it's painful...in a "this is real and therefore you can stand on it" way. The truth is uncomfortable but confining. You know the difference when you feel it. For most of my life I believed I had to lie to get what I needed. I'm guessing somewhere inside, you believe this, too...While lying almost works, just like drinking almost works, neither will ever take us all the way home. While the path may be longer and harder and a little lonelier at times, honesty will always move you closer to love, not further away. Today I don't walk around looking over my shoulder, afraid of being found out. I don't fear picking up my phone or looking at texts or opening my mail. I don't protect different versions of myself, and I don't have to keep track of my stories, because there aren't any - there's just the one life I'm living. I'll never forget the day it hit me that things were altogether different...My mind started to wander, searching for the familiar grooves of worry or scheming or protection to run down, but there wasn't anything there but smooth spaciousness. There was the warm sun making rainbows behind my eyelids and my bare feet hitting the baking asphalt and a bit of chewed-up carrot in my mouth. I had nothing left to hide.”

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Book:We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
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“হয়তো সে হতভাগ্য একলা, জোট-নিরপেক্ষ, অন্তেবাসী! বাকি নিরানব্বইজন এককাট্টা! ঘাড় ধরে ওরা লোকটাকে বার করে দেবে রাজসভা থেকে। দিক। কালীপ্রসন্ন সিংহের মহাভারত সেও পড়েছে। জানে, বিকর্ণকে বরদাস্ত করেনি স্বাধিকারপ্রমত্তের দল। লোকটা সভাত্যাগ করে চলে যাবে, হয়তো লোকালয় থেকেও উচ্ছেদ করা হবে তাকে। চলে যাবে অরণ্যে। তবে মাথা খাড়া রেখেই। অন্তেবাসী, অরণ্যচারী, “বুনো” হয়ে যাওয়া অসামাজিক, অশোভন, হতে পারে - সেটা অমর্যাদার, অগৌরবের নয়।”

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Book:আবার সে এসেছে ফিরিয়া
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