Matthew Teutsch
Sep 27, 2022

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To a certain extent, I agree. I think, though, this is the same fuel that drove the Chinese Exclusion Act, immigration acts, and immigration quotas, along with the eugenics movement in the early 1900s. It's just manifested in a different manner, plus it's global (as I think it always has been to a certain extent).

I keep thinking about how we move racism and bigotry away from the light. I keep thinking about how we "cure" it, and Ive really come to the point that we can't, in any way, ever hope to achieve eradication of these thoughts, at least not any time in the near future.

I really started thinking about this with a class I taught last spring. Here are some thoughts. https://interminablerambling.medium.com/the-heart-or-the-pen-d0bc46e6d160?sk=84c8e73979abe687bc8265254cfc4dd2

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Matthew Teutsch
Matthew Teutsch

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