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Wir alle machen Fehler. Ich habe manchmal den Eindruck, dass viele Skeptiker einfach nur skeptisch sind, um des Skeptischseins willen. Wenn aber jemand selbst mit guter Evidenz, guten Beweisen, nicht von etwas zu überzeugen ist, nur weil die Skeptiker dagegen sind, dann liegt er meines Erachtens falsch.
Prof. Ernst: Charles Ist Das Beste Argument, Die Monarchie Abzuschaffen | Ruhrbarone
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The reasons were stated like criminal charges. The books of Sigmund Freud, for instance, were charged with spiritual corruption and “the exaggeration and unhealthy complication of sexuality.” After reading the charge, the student threw the book into the pile while declaring, “I commit to the flames the works of Sigmund Freud!”
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
In other words, while Black Americans were being systematically, generationally deprived of the ability to build wealth, and while some of them were also being robbed of the little they had managed to gain, white Americans were not only free to earn money and accumulate wealth with exclusive access to the best jobs, best schools, and best credit terms but were also getting substantial government help in doing so.
The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
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