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“The saying goes, ‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’ To which a wise teacher said, ‘But as with all waters, one can swim against the tide.’”
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The thing is, it’s not like half this country suddenly became Islamophobes because of any single event. But the lies, the rhetoric calling refugees rapists and criminals, the fake news, the false statistics, all gave those well-meaning people who say they’re not bigots cover to vote for a man who openly tweeted his hatred of us on a nearly daily basis.
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| This is a really, really important topic that we all need to be discussing. If you think it can’t happen again, imprisoning people in camps just because they are "different," please research the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII. Pl ...more | |
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Initially, I was surprised at the negative reviews for this book... But the more of the I read, the more I could understand why they were disappointed in this book. It’s definitely not for everyone. As a dependent of the US Navy my entire life, I’ve ...more |
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“It’s the police, for the most part, who decide whether a suspect should be arrested, and prosecutors who ultimately determine whether a conviction should be pursued.”
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
“But I had done this to myself. I had invited her in. In my darkest days, I sometimes had to remind myself that it started here, in that moment, and that it wasn’t Rebekah who came after me. I was the one who went looking for her.”
― The Winters
― The Winters
“Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, “No thanks,” “Not interested,” or even “Fuck off, creep.”
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
“According to this mind-set, there can only be two precursors to rape: (1) A stranger jumps out from the bushes; (2) There is no rape unless the woman puts up a fight, to the death if necessary.”
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
“Rape, Boylan pointed out, is the only crime in which the victim is presumed to be lying.”
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Karyl’s 2018 Year in Books
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