Chain of Ideas Quotes

“The more the sexism, homophobia, and racism of their parties turns off voters, the more great replacement parties will turn to women, gay people, and people of colour to lead their parties – for proximity denial.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

“The more religions in any given society, the more freedom to practice religions. The more freedom to practice religions, the more freedom to practice one’s own religion… Politicians can strive to protect all religions or they can wage war on certain religions, which ultimately leads to war between religions and branches, which ultimately leads to wars against all religion. When a politician wages war on another religion, it opens the door to war being waged on their own religion too. Zero-sum stories are self-destructive, and they have been self-destructive for as long as there have been multiracial nations.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

“Great replacement politicians teach privileged groups to covet policies and practices that provide them with a generally better quality of life over disadvantaged groups, rather than coveting the shared power of antiracist democracy to provide themselves with the best quality of life together in solidarity with previously disadvantaged groups. For instance, lower-and middle-income White Americans are taught to covet the privilege of struggling less than their peers of color, rather than harnessing democratic power to eliminate financial struggle for all Americans. To defend their privilege of struggling less than people of color do, White Americans must defend racism. To defend racism is to defend racist power. To defend racist power is to increasingly defend dictatorial power. To defend dictatorial power is to defend their own domination.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

“When compared to peoples of color”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age