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What’s an Onlya?

| June 13, 2012

A cou­ple of peo­ple have asked me, “what’s an onlya”? An onlya is any per­son whom a group has a rea­son to mar­gin­al­ize: “he’s only a drug user,” “he’s only a kid,” “she’s only a judge.” Mem­bers of the group can treat the onlya worse than they would treat other group mem­bers. We’re all onlyas to […]

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