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One of the criticisms of Singer is that he doesn't know anything about what life with disability is like. He makes assumptions about happiness that don't track with reality, and when confronted with the reality of individuals with disabilities who are happy, he makes them exceptions that prove his theories correct, rather than reconsidering his theories.
How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Peter Singer's Tells - He Thinks His Radical Opinions on Disability Are Just Old News.
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IN BERLIN, ON 10 May 1933, a bonfire was held on Unter den Linden, the capital’s most important thoroughfare. It was a site of great symbolic resonance: opposite the university and adjacent to St Hedwig’s Cathedral, the Berlin State Opera House, the Royal Palace and Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s beautiful war memorial. Watched by a cheering crowd of almost forty thousand a group of students ceremonially marched up to the bonfire carrying the bust of a Jewish intellectual, Magnus Hirschfeld (founder of the groundbreaking Institute of Sexual Sciences). Chanting the ‘Feuersprüche’, a series of fire incantations, they threw the bust on top of thousands of volumes from the institute’s library, which had joined books by Jewish and other ‘un-German’ writers (gays and communists prominent among them) that had been seized from bookshops and libraries. Around the fire stood rows of young men in Nazi uniforms giving the Heil Hitler salute. The students were keen to curry favour with the new government and this book-burning was a carefully planned publicity stunt.
Burning the Books
Richard Ovenden
Wir wiederholen es noch einmal: Der Einwand der Impfgegner, Impfungen seien unnötig bis unwirksam, weil die Todesraten eh schon vor deren Einführung zurückgegangen seien, ist irreführend, falsch und in ihrer Absicht - der gewollten Verunsicherung der Menschen - blanker Zynismus.
Impfgegnerargument Failed: "Die Todesrate Ist Auch Ohne Impfen Gesunken" | Susannchen Braucht Keine Globuli
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