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no authority for those who dehumanize

December 28, 2017 Lamenting, Journeying Together Leave a comment
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I would like to suggest a simple proposal: let’s never give any authority to anyone who dehumanizes others. Recently I was reading a collection of survivor accounts from the residential schools that Canadians forced upon Indigenous children until as late as 1996. Once again, I had to face the hard […]

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