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Given the reactionary extremism that characterizes power in today’s world, it is also timely.

But like so many of my peers, I am acutely suffering under this reactionary authoritarian regime.

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The recent surge in reactionary politics has been accompanied by a tidal wave of “trad” propaganda, which argues that feminism is bad for women and they would be happier in circumvented roles at home.

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Long reactionary in their politics and social structure, these states’ business-friendly policies now have something to teach the progressive Golden State.

The students’ memorial service was even disrupted by local reactionaries who chanted, “Kent State Four! Should have studied more!”

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