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James Birmingham is a New College alumnus who works in the student affairs office. He is half Chinese and a staunch advocate for students of color. When Derek is outed as a white nationalist, James is disgusted when he reads Derek’s posts on Stormfront. He’s frustrated with students who want to defend and reach out to Derek, thinking that they will never be able to change Derek’s views. He starts a campaign to have Derek ostracized on campus, which largely succeeds.
James Birmingham Quotes in Rising Out of Hatred
The Rising Out of Hatred quotes below are all either spoken by James Birmingham or refer to James Birmingham. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9
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James posted an image of a kickboxer pummeling a Nazi, and hours later Allison saw it on the forum and decided to write a public response. She had spent the last year sitting with Derek, Matthew, Moshe, and others at polite dinner parties. And even if the result wasn’t exactly revolutionary, she believed those conversations had opened Derek’s mind and begun to change his thinking. What she worried now was that the forum would undo that goodwill and push Derek back into a corner, where he would again see the campus as his liberal enemy.
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James Birmingham Quotes in Rising Out of Hatred
The Rising Out of Hatred quotes below are all either spoken by James Birmingham or refer to James Birmingham. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 9
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James posted an image of a kickboxer pummeling a Nazi, and hours later Allison saw it on the forum and decided to write a public response. She had spent the last year sitting with Derek, Matthew, Moshe, and others at polite dinner parties. And even if the result wasn’t exactly revolutionary, she believed those conversations had opened Derek’s mind and begun to change his thinking. What she worried now was that the forum would undo that goodwill and push Derek back into a corner, where he would again see the campus as his liberal enemy.
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