Henry Giroux Quotes About Ideology

Quotes about: Ideology

• Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

  Henry Giroux

  Assumption, Ideology, Dominant

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• We're talking about race. It's ideology, it's a mode of policy. It's a practice. And it intertwines with class in a very specific way to create something very distinctive that we see now being legitimated in the United States by fascists who absolutely are unapologetic about what they're saying.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Talking, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which they are challenged, can learn to take risks, think outside the boundaries of established ideologies, and expand the far reaches of their creativity and critical judgment. This demands a pedagogy that is complicated, taxing and disruptive.

  Henry Giroux

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Ideology

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The difference between neoliberalism and fascism or Nazism or other forms of totalitarianism is that it takes questions of ideology seriously. It takes the educational sphere seriously, and it tells people there's no alternative; that market freedom is really freedom in general; that a rabid kind of individualism is all that matters; that as Ayn Rand used to say, "self interest is the ultimate virtue" - and people believe this stuff. Because they have no other discourse.

  Henry Giroux

  Educational, Believe, People

• [Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for instance, that economics should govern all of social life, to such a degree that it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge it.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Challenges, Degrees

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• We have in this country something remarkable. We have the local version of the Soviets' Pravda. It trades in ignorance and lies and opinions, and makes the claim that they are "truth," and it does so with people who are stupid, who don't know anything, and are basically entertainers. It merges a fundamentalist ideology with celebrity culture.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Lying, Stupid

• At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s.

  Henry Giroux

  Black Youth, Challenges, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

  Henry Giroux

  Running, Culture, Electric Current

  "Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism". Book by Henry Giroux, www.alternet.org. 2011.

• History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

  Henry Giroux

  Horizon, Ends, Appeals

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic complex by presenting the ideologies, institutions and relations of the powerful as commonsense.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Military, Machines

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives of fear and violence. Such legitimation is largely provided through a market-driven culture addicted to the production of consumerism, militarism and organized violence, largely circulated through various registers of popular culture that extend from high fashion and Hollywood movies to the creation of violent video games and music concerts sponsored by the Pentagon.

  Henry Giroux

  Fashion, War, Games

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative points of view, has been so powerful and so normalized.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Views, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society, a convenient rhetorical obfuscation that allows white Americans to ignore the institutional and individual racist ideologies, practices and policies that cripple any viable notion of justice and democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Practice, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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