J. B. MacKinnon Quotes
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.
We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is.
There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.
I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.
We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.
Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'
To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.