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In practical terms, Szabo felt the library should begin offering classes and voter registration and literacy programs and story times and speaker series and homeless outreach and business services and computer access and movie rentals and e-book loans and a nice gift shop. Also, books.
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Each time I went on stage and made a disparaging joke about my disability to put a non-disabled audience at ease, I played further into that mechanism. While me being onstage disrupted the status quo, I was diffusing that tension by reinforcing my otherness. Over time I grew uncomfortable, resenting the jokes I thought were necessary to be accepted by audiences.
Ophira Calof on Unravelling Ableism From Comedy
Ophira Calof
Bhakdi verlangt, dass Maßnahmen erst ergriffen werden, wenn die Gefährlichkeit des Virus <em>gesichert</em> sei. Was für ein Unsinn. Man muss vorsorgen, solange die Ungefährlichkeit <em>nicht gesichert</em> ist. In die gleiche Kerbe haut Stanford-Koryphäe John Ioannidis, der im Focus <a href="https://www.focus.de/gesundheit/news/statistikwissenschaftler-john-ioannidis-stanford-wissenschaftler-zu-coronakrise-treffen-entscheidungen-ohne-zuverlaessige-datenbasis_id_11790674.html" rel="external noopener" target="_blank">Maßnahmen "ohne zuverlässige Datenbasis" beklagt</a>.
Coronavirus: Das Versagen Der Alternativen Medien | Telepolis
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