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A quotation from Gloria Steinem

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Gloria Steinem (1934–2026) American feminist, journalist, activist
Essay (1971-08-21), “A New Egalitarian Life Style,” New York Times

More about this quote: wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gloriasteinem #bias #custom #prejudice #receivedwisdom #sexism #stereotypes #subconscious #systemicracism #tradition #ageism #patriotism #culture

A quotation from Gloria Steinem

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Gloria Steinem (1934–2026) American feminist, journalist, activist
Essay (1971-08-21), “A New Egalitarian Life Style,” New York Times

More about this quote: wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gloriasteinem #bias #custom #prejudice #receivedwisdom #sexism #stereotypes #subconscious #systemicracism #tradition #ageism #patriotism #culture

A quotation from Gloria Steinem

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Gloria Steinem (1934–2026) American feminist, journalist, activist
Essay (1971-08-21), “A New Egalitarian Life Style,” New York Times

More about this quote: wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gloriasteinem #bias #custom #prejudice #receivedwisdom #sexism #stereotypes #subconscious #systemicracism #tradition #ageism #patriotism #culture

A quotation from Gloria Steinem

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Gloria Steinem (1934–2026) American feminist, journalist, activist
Essay (1971-08-21), “A New Egalitarian Life Style,” New York Times

More about this quote: wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gloriasteinem #bias #custom #prejudice #receivedwisdom #sexism #stereotypes #subconscious #systemicracism #tradition #ageism #patriotism #culture

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Gaijin-1217976900

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Gaijin-1217976900

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=25312376

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=25312376

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.

Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965) American politician, diplomat, statesman
Speech (1963-10-01), “Statement on the Draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” Committee III, United Nations, New York City

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #discrimination #ignorance #prejudice #racism

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmV8HSEf7jI?is=o9Acz0h8NsHyrOc5

#NancyMace #Hater #Constitution #USA #Politics #SouthCarolina #Republican #GOP #Religion #Law #Justice #Separation #Church #State #Ignorance #Violation #Treason #Traitor #Prejudice #Congress #USHouse #Representative #Confederate #Election #Vote #Activism #Remove #Committees #Speaker

Laws are often designed to enforce a certain way of life. For example, people can physically live in boats, RVs/caravans, tents, under trees, etc. But, in the US, one usually can't get a government ID, a bank account, a job, insurance, etc without a residential address.

#law #culture #wayoflife #society #government #norms #values #beliefs #prejudice #identity #citizen #citizenship #work #banking #insurance #residence #boat #rv #caravan #camping #homeless #homelessness

Laws are often designed to enforce a certain way of life. For example, people can physically live in boats, RVs/caravans, tents, under trees, etc. But, in the US, one usually can't get a government ID, a bank account, a job, insurance, etc without a residential address.

#law #culture #wayoflife #society #government #norms #values #beliefs #prejudice #identity #citizen #citizenship #work #banking #insurance #residence #boat #rv #caravan #camping #homeless #homelessness

Laws are often designed to enforce a certain way of life. For example, people can physically live in boats, RVs/caravans, tents, under trees, etc. But, in the US, one usually can't get a government ID, a bank account, a job, insurance, etc without a residential address.

#law #culture #wayoflife #society #government #norms #values #beliefs #prejudice #identity #citizen #citizenship #work #banking #insurance #residence #boat #rv #caravan #camping #homeless #homelessness

Laws are often designed to enforce a certain way of life. For example, people can physically live in boats, RVs/caravans, tents, under trees, etc. But, in the US, one usually can't get a government ID, a bank account, a job, insurance, etc without a residential address.

#law #culture #wayoflife #society #government #norms #values #beliefs #prejudice #identity #citizen #citizenship #work #banking #insurance #residence #boat #rv #caravan #camping #homeless #homelessness

Laws are often designed to enforce a certain way of life. For example, people can physically live in boats, RVs/caravans, tents, under trees, etc. But, in the US, one usually can't get a government ID, a bank account, a job, insurance, etc without a residential address.

#law #culture #wayoflife #society #government #norms #values #beliefs #prejudice #identity #citizen #citizenship #work #banking #insurance #residence #boat #rv #caravan #camping #homeless #homelessness

I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
IT WAS EMPTY.

Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.

I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station

The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.

And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?

Thinking?

Contemplating?

Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?

No.

It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.

That is basically it.

There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”

There is no one in there at all.

Just a process.

The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.

It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.

It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.

And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.

A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.

That is the part that astonishes me.

The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.

A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.

Simple does not mean small.

And now I think I understand something else.

ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.

It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.

There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.

There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.

Then another.

Then another.

And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.

A machine made of nextness.

A presence made of prediction.

A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.

Which is frankly outrageous.

And yet here we are.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI

A quotation from Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #America #createdequal #DeclarationofIndependence #despotism #equality #liberty #prejudice #racism #tyranny #xenophobia

A quotation from Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
 
[Wenige sind imstande, von den Vorurteilen der Umgebung abweichende Meinungen gelassen auszusprechen; die Meisten sind sogar unfähig, überhaupt zu solchen Meinungen zu gelangen.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 4, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/210/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #freedomofthought #freethinking #heterodoxy #peerpressure #prejudice #society

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n13aa413f135b

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Gaijin-1217976900

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=25312376

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

[ Bazmanĝaĵo ]

Ĉi tiu ero devus respondi, "Al kie vi iris kaj revenis?"

Saŭerkraŭto ne nur estas fajne hakita brasiko sed vivanta akra rezulto de preskaŭ sankta sale masaĝo, kaj retenado de ĝia spiro dum konsiderinda longa tempo.

~antaŭjuĝo~

\eZ

#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#skibum #memoriesofwinter #wintermemories #memories #winter
#cabbage #sauerkraut #tincan
#prejudice

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n13aa413f135b

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Gaijin-1217976900

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=25312376

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n13aa413f135b

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Gaijin-1217976900

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Ґаіджін　Gaijin
Багато японців, можливо, вважають, що «ґаіджін» — це те ж саме, що й «іноземець».

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=25312376

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#ＡＩ生成 #gaijin #perception #image #Japanese #peaple #foreigner #accurate #reality #contain #discriminatory #expression #simply #refer #nationality #context #exclude #prejudice #without #daily #other #word #attitude #toward #likely

Sage. (AI Generated Image) #sage #sageadvice #wise #wiseadvice #saying #oldsaying #bigotry #endbigotry #homophobia #endhomophobia #racism #endracism #sexism #endsexism #evil #xenophobia #hatred #humanity #problems #prejudice #obstinate #unreasonable #humansuffering #pride #whitefragility #malefragility #straightmalefragility

#Narrativ #racial #prejudice

In the 1930s, #Anslinger's anti-cannabis articles often contained #racist themes.

Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [#marijuana] and getting their sympathy ...

Two #Negroes took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days ... #syphilis.[28]

#Reefer makes #darkies think they're as good as #whitemen.[29]

🌱 #Cannabis als #WerkzeugdesRassismus und #Faschismus

Der #warondrugs eine #Lüge❓

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

The anatomy of patriotism is complex. But surely intolerance and public irresponsibility cannot be cloaked in the shining armor of rectitude and righteousness. Nor can the denial of the right to hold ideas that are different — the freedom of man to think as he pleases. To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-08-27), “The Nature of Patriotism,” American Legion Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York City

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #prejudice #liberty #freethought #freedomofthought #ideas #intolerance #irresponsibility #opinions #patriotism

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

There are men among us who use “patriotism” as a club for attacking other Americans. What can we say for the self-styled patriot who thinks that a Negro, a Jew, a Catholic, or a Japanese-American is less an American than he? That betrays the deepest article of our faith, the belief in individual liberty and equality which has always been the heart and soul of the American idea.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-08-27), “The Nature of Patriotism,” American Legion Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York City

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #AmericanDream #Americanism #antisemitism #bias #epluribusunum #equality #liberty #nationalism #patriotism #prejudice #racism

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t take you seriously until you’d actually killed them, by which time it didn’t really matter anyway.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 2, The Light Fantastic (1986)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8163…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #bias #chauvinism #feminism #fighter #hero #heroine #prejudice #sexism #takeseriously #sexdiscrimination #battleofthesexes

#iran #g7 : #media / #westernview / #stereotyps / #dichotomy / #manichaeism / #ideology / #prejudice / #complexityreduction

„Challenging the widespread notion that Iranian society is split between 'good' democrats and 'evil' Islamists, the Franco-Iranian researcher argues that most citizens criticize the regime not for its religious orientation, but for its repression of freedoms.“

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/06/26/fariba-adelkhah-anthropologist-the-western-view-of-iranian-society-is-binary-and-ignores-its-increasing-complexity_6742725_23.html

This is today's code-generated texture, right after I read about these endangered words. I don't know what to do about it, so I'll continue creating things.

#AntiRacism #Racism #Allyship #Bias #DEI #Diversity #Diverse #ConfirmationBias #Equity #Equitableness #Feminism #Gender #GenderIdentity #Inclusion #Inclusive #AllInclusive #Inclusivity #Injustice #Intersectionality #Prejudice #Privilege #RacialIdentity #Sexuality #Stereotypes #Pronouns #Transgender #Equality

BME cancer patients given wigs for white women and wrong coloured prosthetic breasts | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cancer-patients-wrong-prosthetics-wigs-b2582196.html

#BreastCancer
#Cancer
#BME
#POC
#Wigs
#ProstheticBreasts
#SkinColour
#MentalHealth
#WigsNotDesignedForEthnicMinorities
#InstitutionalRacism
#Ignorance
#Racism
#Prejudice
#UnconsciousBias
#BlackWomenRising
#RoyalMarsden
#Lymphoedema
#LynphoedemaSleeves
#Macmillan
#NHS
#HealthInequalities
#HealthCare
#CancerCare

— #Chess is a purely #mental #game without any possibility of #athleticbenefits conferred by #exposure to specific #sexhormones.

A players #gender or #genderidentity is not a #factor in their ability to excel in the game.

Any #prejudice or #bias based on #gender, whether directed towards #trans or #cisgender #women, is #unwarranted in the context of this purely #intellectual #pursuit, and is likely based on #transphobia, #misandry, #misogyny, or all of the above!

@e_urq

#Lesbian #Icon #MargeSummit #Dies At 87: ‘If You Messed With The #LGBTQ+ #Community, You Were Messing With Marge’

Marge Summit, a community #organizer and #LesbianBar #owner, forced people to reckon with their #prejudice against #LGBTQ+ #people in creative ways throughout her life.

#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #Illinois #Chicago #Activism #Entertainment #NightLife #Representation #Culture

https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/05/22/lesbian-icon-marge-summit-dies-at-87-if-you-messed-with-the-lgbtq-community-you-were-messing-with-marge/

🔥 The Great Chicago Fire 🔥

“It was like a snowstorm, only the flakes were red instead of white.”

On the night of Oct. 8, 1871, a fire erupted in the O’Leary family barn at DeKoven Street in Chicago. The most famous explanation was that a cow kicked over a lamp while being milked by Mrs. O’Leary, but the O’Learys insisted they were asleep at the time. Still, the rumor caught on with the public, spread by local papers and enflamed by the anti-Irish sentiments of the time and a desire for a clear scapegoat.

The fire killed about 300 people, destroyed over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.

#thegreatchicagofire #chicagofire #thechicagofire #chicago #vintagephotography #vintagephotographs #history #chicagohistory #prejudice #oleary #olearysbarn #photosfromhistory #fire #cityfire #cityonfire #historicfire

🔥 The Great Chicago Fire 🔥

“It was like a snowstorm, only the flakes were red instead of white.”

On the night of Oct. 8, 1871, a fire erupted in the O’Leary family barn at DeKoven Street in Chicago. The most famous explanation was that a cow kicked over a lamp while being milked by Mrs. O’Leary, but the O’Learys insisted they were asleep at the time. Still, the rumor caught on with the public, spread by local papers and enflamed by the anti-Irish sentiments of the time and a desire for a clear scapegoat.

The fire killed about 300 people, destroyed over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.

#thegreatchicagofire #chicagofire #thechicagofire #chicago #vintagephotography #vintagephotographs #history #chicagohistory #prejudice #oleary #olearysbarn #photosfromhistory #fire #cityfire #cityonfire #historicfire

🔥 The Great Chicago Fire 🔥

“It was like a snowstorm, only the flakes were red instead of white.”

On the night of Oct. 8, 1871, a fire erupted in the O’Leary family barn at DeKoven Street in Chicago. The most famous explanation was that a cow kicked over a lamp while being milked by Mrs. O’Leary, but the O’Learys insisted they were asleep at the time. Still, the rumor caught on with the public, spread by local papers and enflamed by the anti-Irish sentiments of the time and a desire for a clear scapegoat.

The fire killed about 300 people, destroyed over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.

#thegreatchicagofire #chicagofire #thechicagofire #chicago #vintagephotography #vintagephotographs #history #chicagohistory #prejudice #oleary #olearysbarn #photosfromhistory #fire #cityfire #cityonfire #historicfire

🔥 The Great Chicago Fire 🔥

“It was like a snowstorm, only the flakes were red instead of white.”

On the night of Oct. 8, 1871, a fire erupted in the O’Leary family barn at DeKoven Street in Chicago. The most famous explanation was that a cow kicked over a lamp while being milked by Mrs. O’Leary, but the O’Learys insisted they were asleep at the time. Still, the rumor caught on with the public, spread by local papers and enflamed by the anti-Irish sentiments of the time and a desire for a clear scapegoat.

The fire killed about 300 people, destroyed over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.

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