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We must be forgiven if we thought what Germany had today was not Holocaust guilt, but genocide nostalgia, as it has vicariously indulged in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians over the past century (not just the past [100 days](https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-100-days-regional-catastrophe-looms)).

Thanks to Gaza, European Philosophy Has Been Exposed as Ethically Bankrupt

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We have our own lives and experiences, our own worlds, and the existence of allegedly more advanced beings does not invalidate that selfhood. Inviolable rights are not a prize awarded to whoever scores higher on some arbitrary test.

Ways of Being

James Bridle

Almost everyone I talk to tells me about people they have lost “down the rabbit hole”—parents, siblings, best friends, as well as formerly trusted intellectuals and commentators. People, once familiar, who have become unrecognizable. Altered. It began to feel as if the forces that have destabilized my world are part of an expansive web of forces that are destabilizing our larger world—and that understanding these forces could hold a key to getting to firmer ground.

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

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