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2022: "Die Sendung mit der Maus hat mich radikalisiert", aber als politischer Ausdruck des Widerstands gegen einen konservativen Backlash.
Hatte ich vor ein paar Jahren auch nicht auf dem Schirm.
Tweets From Bianca Kastl
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Asked about whether laws to prosecute faith healing parents would interfere with their religious freedom, Walton said “You’re also infringing on the rights of those children who want to live. They have a right to live, too.” An amazingly accurate response, in my opinion.
Woman With Fatal Condition Caused by Faith Healing Wants Her Parents Prosecuted
patheos.com
Only in those few societies that had undergone the early health transition, and learned to control the wild oscillations of epidemic disease early on, could the mortality crises of modernity seem like something from another epoch. Indeed, the success of containment efforts in protecting industrializing societies from the new threats of the period might be ranked among the more underappreciated accomplishments of the wonderful century. Unfortunately, the benefits were not universally shared.
Plagues Upon the Earth
Kyle Harper
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