'In the end, if we do politics at all, it should be precisely so that people can have ordinary lives, ones not constrained and distorted by the kinds of injustice political activists try to end.'
about a man who can't stop lying referred to a study of people's self-reported truthfulness. Writing about those who admit to lying frequently, reporter Ellen Barry says,
So, we said we could win because we were thinking ahead. Proposition 209 represented a cynical effort to harness white anxiety about what would soon be ainitiative, even if we lost, would prepare people for the struggles to come.we couldn't win? At some point, I suppose I traded in one virtue—truthfulness—for another—hope. And then, to project confidence and encourage others to hope as well, I had to start believing my own lies .
I typically kept those statistics to myself, since it wasn't part of my job to look at them in the first place.
Even now, years later, I can see her point. Whether it's asking my fellow part-time university teachers to come to a union meeting, trying to get a stranger to accept a leaflet on the street, or convincing a potential voter to listen to me about why this election matters and should matter to them, my strange vocation often does involve attempting to get people to do things they don't particularly want to do.
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