Who Gets to Be Smart Quotes

“Knowledge is power, and when powerful people are allowed to shape knowledge and restrict access to knowledge, they are able to consolidate and strengthen their hold on that power. Manusians are not cannibals. Neither are Indigenous Australians. Yet the terror of those who engage in that most deeply held taboo was rolled out over 100 years ago by our government and newspapers to gain new land, and here it was now being rolled out again, ostensibly to protect that land. A horrifying mirroring of history; nothing learned.”
― Bri Lee, Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge