Quote from N.K. Jemisin's "How Long 'til Black Future Month?"

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In the last year, I've read a few of this author's books and can't praise her highly enough. I just picked up her latest (short stories, title in the O.P.) and encountered this passage in the first piece:

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by those concealing ill intent, of insisting that people already suffering should be inflicted with further, unnecessary pain. This is the paradox of tolerance, the treason of free speech: we hesitate to admit that some people are just fucking evil and need to be stopped."

Been pondering that (it made me think of the immigration/refugee situation, among other things), and thought it was worth sharing.

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1. K&R for visibility. nt

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2. Thanks!