{"quotes":[{"text":"Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigotry","bigots","co-optation","co-opting","discrimination","discrimination","first-amendment","first-amendment-defense-act","freedom-of-religion","gay-rights","government","government","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","prejudice","religion","religious-freedom"],"id":1033,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","gay-rights","hate","hatred","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","oppression","oppression","political-correct","political-correctness","political-spins","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","power","privilege","privileges","propaganda","propaganda","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","racist","silence","silence","silencing","silencing-dissent","silencing-others","spin","spinning","unearned-blessings"],"id":12055,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["battleground","biase","biased","buttons","censor","censorship","circus","control","controlled","corruption","democracy","fake","government","government-corruption","guilty","illusion","influence","influential","innocent","internet","judge","judgment","manipulate","manipulated","net","orchestrate","perceive","perception","popular","popular-opinion","popularity","public-opinion","regulated","regulation","silence","skewed","slanted","trolls","viewpoint","war","web"],"id":22199,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ('When is Art?').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["art","biased","breathing","come-to-life","concept","consent-to","dispel","disturbing","feel","forsaken","fragments","ignored","in-the-end","nasty","perceptions","philosophy","piece-of-art","raise-questions","recognize","reconcile","remember","sometimes","start","talk-to"],"id":24141,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigotry","bigots","discriminating","discrimination","discrimination","gay-rights","honor","honor","honorable","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","prejudice","prejudices","race","race-relations","racism","racism-in-america","racism","racism","reason","reasonable"],"id":46960,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Building bridges takes us further than building walls.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigoted","bigotry","building-bridges","building-bridges-not-walls","building-bridges","discriminating","discrimination","discrimination","gay-rights","hate","hatred","immigration","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","prejudice","prejudiced","prejudices","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-relations","racism","racism-in-america","racism","racism","religion","religion-and-philosophy","religion-spirituality","religious-tolerance","tolerance","tolerance"],"id":61272,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","dismissal","ethnocentricity","ethnocentrism","homophobia","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","marginalization","oppressed","oppression","oppression","political-correctness","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","prejudice","prejudices","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","silencing","silencing-dissent"],"id":84322,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigotry","discrimination","discrimination","diversity","diversity","equal-rights","equal-treatment","equality","equality","fairness","gay-rights","inclusion","inclusive","inclusiveness","inclusivity","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","organizational-leadership","prejudice","prejudices","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-in-america","race-relations","racism","racism-and-culture","racism","racism","womens-rights"],"id":84358,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","change","civil-rights","discrimination","discrimination","institutional-oppression","law","prejudice","prejudiced","prejudices","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-in-america","race-relations","racism","racism-in-america","racism","racism","social-change"],"id":88738,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway - in its focus on concrete results. How else would companies survive fierce competition? But what I encountered was a culture riven with assumptions unrelated to those that underlie the fact- and logic-based worlds of, say science and journalism - a culture addicted to untested habits, paralyzed by conformity, and shot through with magical thinking.","author":"Barbara Ehrenreich","tags":["assumptions","bias","biased","conformity","corporate-america","corporate-culture","corporate-world","logic","military"],"id":159944,"author_id":"Barbara+Ehrenreich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}