### q1 Athens was oppressive > we need to stop pretending that the [worst thing the Athenians ever did was to execute Socrates](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/making-athens-great-again/517791/?utm_source=eb) and openly engage the true dark side of Classical Athens’ anti-immigration policies and the obsession with ethnic purity that lies at the heart of its literature, history, and philosophy. We need to recognize and discuss critically that at the heart of democracy often sits a whole series of oppressions that need not be there, but that can take over when we forget that democracy is hard - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fgy2njgc54ttxbb7y3nw7h1y) - [[We Condone It by Our Silence by Rebecca Futo Kennedy#q1 Athens was oppressive|View in Vault]]