{"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":"The same people who wear shirts that read “fuck your feelings” and rail against “political correctness” seem to believe that there should be no social consequences for [voting for Trump]. I keep hearing calls for empathy and healing, civility and polite discourse. As if supporting a man who would fill his administration with white nationalists and misogynists is something to simply agree to disagree on.Absolutely not. You don’t get to vote for a person who brags about sexual assault and expect that the women in your life will just shrug their shoulders. You don’t get to play the victim when people unfriend you on Facebook, as if being disliked for supporting a bigot is somehow worse than the suffering that marginalized people will endure under Trump. And you certainly do not get to enjoy a performance by people of color and those in the LGBT community without remark or protest when you enact policies and stoke hatred that put those very people’s lives in danger.Being socially ostracized for supporting Trump is not an infringement of your rights, it’s a reasonable response by those of us who are disgusted, anxious, and afraid. I was recently accused by a writer of “vote shaming” – but there’s nothing wrong with being made to feel ashamed for doing something shameful.","author":"Jessica Valenti","tags":["bigot","bigotry","conservative","democrat","intolerance","liberal","racism","racist","republican","trump"],"id":22945,"author_id":"Jessica+Valenti"},{"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":"If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty. Heresy should be trodden out beneath the bigot's brutal feet. Husbands should divorce their wives at will, and make the mothers of their children houseless and weeping wanderers. Polygamy ought to be practiced; women should become slaves; we should buy the sons and daughters of the heathen and make them bondmen and bondwomen forever. We should sell our own flesh and blood, and have the right to kill our slaves. Men and women should be stoned to death for laboring on the seventh day. 'Mediums,' such as have familiar spirits, should be burned with fire. Every vestige of mental liberty should be destroyed, and reason's holy torch extinguished in the martyr's blood.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","bigot","brutal","burning","christianity","civilization","crime","death-penalty","divorce","forever","heathen","heresy","holy","husbands","inspired","judaism","kill","liberty","martyr","mental","mistake","mothers","murder","pentateuch","politics","polygamy","sabbath","sell","slaves","spirits","stoning","the-bible","torth","wander","weeping"],"id":64294,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biases","bigot","bigotry","blame","blame-game","discrimination","economy","immigrants","immigration","minorities","minority","minority-rights","prejudice","prejudices","racism","racism-in-america","racism","self-awareness","white-nationalism","white-privilege","white-supremacy"],"id":64766,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us.","author":"A.J. Beirens","tags":["atheism","bigot","bigotry","door-to-door","faith","god","hawking"],"id":66145,"author_id":"A.J.+Beirens"},{"text":"Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biases","bigot","bigotry","civil-rights","denial","discriminating","discrimination","discrimination","human-rights","justice","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","perception","perception-of-reality","political-correctness","politically-correct","politically-incorrect","prejudice","prejudices","privilege","privileges","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-relations","racism","racism-in-america","racism","racism","social-justice"],"id":68945,"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":"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arguing","arguments","bigot","bigotry","bigots","certainty","close-mindedness","conviction","honesty","intolerance","narrow-mindedness","open-mindedness","passion","philosophy","politics","religion","subject","subject-matter","theology","tolerance","truth","worth"],"id":88527,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}