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She said she had seen her whole imagination right there in that water, glimmering out toward the endless horizon line.
“These trigger-chains of moral retribution are beneficial to each of the propagators: They’re financially beneficial to news organizations, which can ensure ad clicks on a trending story. They are beneficial to the platforms that keep us cringing at Bob’s fate, because they keep us glued to our feeds. They’re beneficial for individual users who reshare the post, who increase their follower count and burnish their reputations.”
― Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It
― Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It
“Race is a social construct but it is often embedded in computational systems as if it were scientific fact.”
― More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
― More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
“Empathy always plays a distinct role in propaganda, explicitly asking the viewers to feel the suffering of the enemy’s victims and calling on them to respond with condemnation and moral outrage.”
― Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It
― Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It
“Historian Francis Parker simplistically summed up the situation when he said, “Spanish civilization crushed the Indian; English civilization scorned and neglected him; French civilization embraced and cherished him.”6 It”
― Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics
― Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics
“The biggest shame, our biggest shame, is that—as a child doing a simple homework assignment, or on a field trip, receiving hugs in a civil rights exhibit—I so easily internalized my nation’s wreckage. That because my sociocultural introduction to myself was framed by sorrow and inadequacy, I felt those things to be both my history and destiny. I internalized the obligation of apologizing, repenting, making up for myself. These were hard tasks to confront, as I did not know what I was apologizing for.”
― You Get What You Pay For: Essays
― You Get What You Pay For: Essays
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