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“You don't get it!...I was standing right in their house, but I'm invisible. I'm the pizza dude in a polyester uniform that stinks..." "So you're a ghost," Angela said. "No! I'm not a ghost. A ghost used to be human. I don't exist in their world....They don't care what they say in front of me, any more than you care what you say in front of your couch. I'm not a person. I'm a thing.”

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Book:Fire and Ashes
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Fire and Ashes

This book delves into the human spirit's capacity to endure and overcome hardship, weaving a narrative that intertwines personal struggles with broader historical and societal contexts. more

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“But there is a great difference between Fanon's bloody knives and Sartre's bloody scalpel. True decolonization movements, from the American Patriots of the 1770s to the FLN in the 1950s, used actual violence to drive out their oppressors. Intellectuals who use the language of settler colonialism to critique their own society, in contrast, have no mass movement at their back. That has been the predicament of the ideology of settler colonialism from the beginning: everyone knows that calls to "eradicate," "kill," or "cull" settlers can only be metaphorical, so there is no need to put a limit on their rhetorical ferocity. But what if there were a country where settler colonialism could be challenged with more than words? Where all the evils attributed to it--from "emptiness" to "not-enoughness" to economic inequality, global warming, and genocide--could be given a human face? Best of all, what if that settler colonial society were small and endangered enough that destroying it seemed like a realistic possibility rather than a utopian dream? Such a country would be a perfect focus for all the moral passion and rhetorical violence that fuels the ideology of settler colonialism. It would be a country one could hate virtuously--especially if it were home to a people whom Western civilization has traditionally considered it virtuous to hate.”

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Book:On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
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