To be fair, the article itself is doing the misquoting. For others who are wondering, the full, non-sinister text of Gates can be found here: https://www.meta

To be fair, the article itself is doing the misquoting. For others who are wondering, the full, non-sinister text of Gates can be found here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/context-people-yield-themselves-with-perfect-docility-to-our-molding-hand-gates.1258/ https://www.metabunk.org/threads/context-people-yield-themse... It's very much worth a read, at the very least to gain some perspective on how life was back then, and the problems they were trying to solve.