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  1. Sep 2021
    1. My money is mostly stocks, which means it comes from underpaying and undervaluing working-class people, and that’s impossible to disconnect from the economic legacies of Indigenous genocide and slavery,” Ms. Gelman said. “Once I realized that, I couldn’t imagine doing anything with my wealth besides redistribute it to these communities.”

      This kind of reminds me of the article we just read. She would already donate but once she realized that the way she is getting her money is not good and how it looks outside of her POV she decided that there was no better way of using her money than donating.

    2. as both a moral and economic failure

      Reminds me of last classes activity when we found out how wealth is distributed in the United States and how unevenly distributed it is.

  2. Feb 2021
    1. Marcel’s laughter was like a painter’s ground cloth that protects the furniture and anything else under a ceiling being painted.

      Does the narrator mean to say that Marcel laughs to pretend that he is not affected by it?

    2. His dancing was too fanciful to be masculine and too grotesque to be feminine. But everything that he did was like that, so it was very easy to tell that he was a fairy.

      Does he mean to say that Marcel is homosexual?

    1. Thus, the concept of human races is real. It is not a biological reality, however, but a cultural one.

      Biologically race does not exist but race does exist culturally. Race is included so much in society that it now exists