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 I like that phrasing

Submitted by tgarber on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 12:20pm.

 I like that phrasing, "a necessary evil in our lives", because it is very useful, but categories also are used to isolate people. Now, that I think about, categories are not the problem. It is how we use categories to define our lives that complicates the issue. 

 

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