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11:17"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves" — Carl Gustav Jung (via tall)

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11:15"The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know." — Noam Chomsky  (via 5ft1)

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11:13"The ease of not being aware of privilege is an aspect of privilege itself, what some call “the luxury of obliviousness” (or in philosophy, “epistemic privilege”). Awareness requires effort and commitment. Being able to command the attention of lower-status individuals without having to give it in return is a key aspect of privilege. African Americans for example, have to pay close attention to whites and white culture and get to know them well enough to avoid displeasing them, since whites control jobs, schools, government, the police, and most other resources and sources of power. White privilege gives little reason to pay attention to African Americans or how white privilege affects them.

In other words, as James Baldwin put it “To be white in America means not having to think about it.” We could say the same thing about maleness or any other basis for privilege. So strong is the sense of entitlement behind this luxury that males, whites, and others can feel put upon in the face of even the mildest invitation to pay attention to issues of privilege. “We shouldn’t have to look at this stuff,” they seem to say. “It isn’t fair." — Allan G. Johnson  (via 5ft1)

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When the Korean wrote the long series on Korea-Japan relations to explain why Koreans are still angry with the Japanese, a lot of people responded: “Today’s Japan is a very different place from the Imperial Japan during World War II. So Koreans should just get over it.”

Is it now? Today’s Japan has a mayor of a major city, who is considered a potential future Prime Minister, telling the world that sex slaves are necessary in times of war and the U.S. forces in his own country should visit brothels more often. Today’s Japan has a Prime Minister who is a grandson of a Class A war criminal. But rather than having a heightened consciousness about his country’s past crimes, he sits in an airplane with the number 731—clear invocation of Unit 731, which conducted live human experimentation during World War II—grinning and giving a thumbs-up.

The fact that these two leaders think Japan did nothing wrong during World War II was hardly a secret. Prime Minister Abe Shinzo announced to the world that he would withdraw Japan’s apology to former Comfort Women, and denied that Imperial Japan forcibly recruited the Comfort Women to serve as sex slaves. Yet the Japanese people overwhelmingly elected Abe, as well as the candidates for the far-right Japan Restoration Party, to which Mayor Hashimoto belongs.

" — The Korean, “Japan Didn’t Really Change” (via 5ft1)

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