> Do not at the outset of your career make the all too common error of mistaking names for things. Names are only conventional signs for identifying things. Things are the reality that counts. If a thing is despised, either because of ignorance or because it is despicable, you will not alter matters by changing its name.
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-> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
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+> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
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+> "Any evolutionary advantage must come from a feature affecting our behavior. Thus, there is no evolutionary advantage to simply having a belief about our identity. Self-identity can matter and could have mattered only if it affects behavior, in which case it is really a _process_ of self-identification. Moreover, it is not a matter of affirming a self-identity that we possess. For a belief that needs to be affirmed is not a belief at all."
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+> Joseph M. Whitmeyer, "How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research", in <em>The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society</em>
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+> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
+> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
+> Like it's a game, like it's a game
+>
+> And now, I am better than win or lose
+> There's a new direction that I like to choose
+> It's called the truth, it's called the truth
+>
+> —"True Kinda Love"
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+> In general, our society less and less encourages looking sexually attractive to other people and more and more encourages acting out inner fantasies that are unattractive to others to make yourself even more of a victim of society.
+>
+> —[Steve Sailer](http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-woke-war-on-homosexuals/)
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+> All those days
+> Chasing down a daydream
+> All those years
+> Living in a blur
+> All that time
+> Never truly seeing
+> Things, the way they were
+>
+> —"I Can See the Light"
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+> Yet each generation seems to accept the craziness of the past generation, even when balking at the craziness of the new generation. We think that in the past, academia was on track, and that those who opposed progress were crazy, right-wing nut-jobs. But we dissidents think that this time, this new generation–well–they have gone too far and have gone crazy. There is a certain Cthulian horror when suddenly you realize that many of the nut-jobs in the past were actually right. Many were slandered retroactively, not because they were wrong, or evil, not because they made bad predictions, but because they lost and the winners wrote the histories. There is a horror in realizing that you are just like them, this cycle has played out before, and that your children’s generation will see you as the nut-job.
+>
+> —[Devin Helton](https://devinhelton.com/historical-amnesia.html)
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