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        "Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity
        in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
 
        As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond
        to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to
        handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if
        that is not possible, copy it if we think is dominant, or destroy
        it if we think it is subordinate.  But we have no patterns for
        relating across our human differences as equals.  As a result, those
        differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of
        separation and confusion."
 
                                        Audre Lorde
                                        _Sister Outsider_