Henry Giroux Quotes About Legacy

Quotes about: Legacy

• The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and a threat. Not only is this obvious in the presence of a celebrity culture that embraces the banal and idiotic, but also in the prevailing discourses and policies of a range of politicians and anti-public intellectuals who believe that the legacy of the Enlightenment needs to be reversed.

  Henry Giroux

  Believe, Views, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society.

  Henry Giroux

  Long, Racism, Historical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, America, Black

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose the long legacy and current reality of state violence and the rise of the punishing state. Such a struggle suggests not only reclaiming, for instance, education as a public good but also reforming the criminal justice system and removing the police from schools.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, School, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Trump, like that canary in the coalmine, makes clear what elements of fascism are really like. Let's be honest. The racism, the ignorance, the stupidity, the baiting, the great-man affect, this notion that he exists in a circle of certainty that can't be doubted, this kind of perverse hatred of the other. We've seen this before. This legacy is not new. What we have to recognize is the different form that it takes at a different moment in history.

  Henry Giroux

  Ignorance, Racism, Hatred

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to talk about its legacy, from slavery to lynching to mass incarceration, and what it has developed into.

  Henry Giroux

  Lynching, White, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems to me, to subjugate blacks to the dynamics of oppression, poverty. The mass incarceration state.

  Henry Giroux

  Husband, Party, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The real question is, until [Hillary Clinton] faces that legacy and admits that what her husband did was absolutely in the interest of a white supremacist nation, to put it bluntly, I just don't trust her.

  Henry Giroux

  Husband, Real, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• [Hillary Clinton] sort of very cautious kind of uncomfortable, clumsy interaction with the black lives movement, who are very smart in recognizing that historical memory matters, that those legacies live on when you don't identify them, when you're not willing to be in dialog with them, when you're not willing to be self-reflective about the very part that you played as part of that apparatus of power.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Smart, Self

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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