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I believe that Habermas’s position is in line with the German state policy of [partaking in](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/namibia-condemns-germany-for-defending-israel-in-icj-genocide-case) the Zionist slaughter of Palestinians. It is also in line with what passes for the “German left”, with their equally racist, [Islamophobic](https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/islamophobia) and xenophobic hatred of Arabs and Muslims, and their wholesale support for the genocidal actions of the Israeli settler colony.

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

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Industrial production and urban life brought with them increased occupational accidents, the spread of diseases and illnesses at new scales, and new ecological disasters. Insurance was a way for society to calculate and manage these risks. At the same time, the randomness of individual fate was being demystified by probability and statistics. Actuarial tables could predict, with remarkable accuracy, how many men in a given cohort would die in a given year.

The Polymarketification of American Life

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In many ways a timeless cautionary tale, Kindred, with its symbolic demonstration of the tragic truth that social progress is reversible, is especially relevant now. As our world is transformed by political shifts, we must remain conscious of this, and, like Dana, arm ourselves with all that might be needed to protect our freedoms.

Kindred

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