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To me, the smell of a Bovie searing tissue is more disturbing intellectually than it is viscerally. It’s the bacterial odors that incite involuntary disgust in me. Opening up abscesses—many of which I’ve done in a totally outpatient setting—have made me instantaneously nauseated. The stench of Pseudomonas and of Staph are instantly recognizable to me. I’m gagging just thinking about it.

Surgery’s Open Secret: It Smells • 2016 Apr 29 • Sarah Laskow • Atlas Obscura

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The U.S. has never needed religious reasons for murdering indigenous people and killing people in other countries. So I kind of suspect it’s not necessarily religion that promotes mass murder and I don’t think anyone in the U.S. has the moral high ground here.¹

This One Tweet Perfectly Sums Up What Everyone Is Missing About The Istanbul Terrorist Attacks • 2016 Jun 29 • Isaac Saul • A Plus (via George Takei)

It’s also clear that you needn’t be religious to be dogmatic and self-righteous and judgemental and to propagate hate that leads to violence.²

It’s hard to imagine a real Muslim bombing and killing people during the second holiest Islamic city during an Islamic holy month right after he’d been offered breakfast by fellow Muslims.

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Medina explosion: Suicide bombing near Saudi holy site • 2016 Jul 4 • BBC News

There’s a fine line where saying “it’s because of their religion” stops being at all logically explanatory and starts becoming victim-blaming xenophobia, but, hey, that’s what’s popular these days.

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It’s obvious that there’s a racist component to Islamophobia. It’s mostly just another excuse to hate brown and black people, especially when you consider that so many victims of Islamophobia in the U.S. aren’t even Muslim.

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Bosnian Muslims in Southern California may not fit the stereotype but they feel the prejudice • 2016 Jul 4 • Sarah Parvini • Los Angeles Times

White privilege is being able to say that someone who owned people and likely de facto raped them wasn’t a monster.

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Thomas Jefferson Was Not a Monster • 2012 Oct 19 • Annette Gordon-Reed • Slate