We were at a party this weekend and someone was talking about how much he hates ebooks and prefer paper books. I actually have come to love ebooks, although I enjoy paper books too. One of his gripes was that you can't highlight ebooks or keep notes. Uh... that's untrue, although it takes some figuring out. My Kindle allows highlights and then you can export a "notebook" of those highlighted parts at the end. (Although I agree that for note taking and school purposes I'd much prefer paper to digital books.)
These were my highlighted parts of "I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual" by Luvvie Ajayi:
The red stripes on the flag are really the blood of Black and brown
people, and many centuries after the country’s creation, these stains
still have not faded.
Racism is not a byproduct as much as it’s the foundational stock in the American soup.
Black people actually have to PROVE their humanity, instead of having it accepted as a given.
We’re saying that white people benefit from an automatic position of
privilege because of their skin color in a larger racist society.
We know all lives should matter, but ALL lives cannot matter until Black lives matter, too.
Words used within a marginalized group are not always appropriate when used by an outsider.
Rape culture is the prevailing attitude that women exist primarily to
please men, and therefore are not equal human beings with agency over
their own bodies.
The questionable personal decisions we sometimes make do not excuse the
bad decisions others make, especially when it comes to how they interact
with us.
Believing that people should make their own choices about their own lives is ultimately what I think it means to be a feminist.
Wanting equal rights for women is not synonymous with wanting fewer rights for men,
Organized religion, practiced fundamentally and literally, is a strong
tool of control. So I understand why people do not believe in it or a
higher power.
(I really liked the book and would recommend it.)
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