“Now for an uncomfortable truth: if you feel nervous when you see a person in “Muslim garb” on an airplane, then you are a bigot, according to the broadest definition of the word, that of “a prejudiced person.” Don’t get mad, though! We’re all bigots, to some degree or another, because we live in a culture that teaches and reinforces and rewards our bigotry with privilege. Being a bigot is not itself an unforgiveable offense, as for most folks this is practically unavoidable in one area or another. It’s true: you can even write books about civil rights and still be a bigot in other respects. What is unforgiveable is our too-frequent failure to fight these assumptions and stereotypes as they persist in our own minds, and as they manifest themselves in our shared world.”
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LESLEY IS THE GREATEST. read this.
(via pastthestorm)