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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

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Matt Taibbi
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 2
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Matthew C. Taibbi
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People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.
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