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Evaluating Ethical Systems

It is hard to find common ground with people who are denying basic human rights, like health care or asylum, life itself, really. They are driven by a philosophy that centers something other than life...

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Anger, Shame, and Power

Shame is the tool of the oppressors It does not change our behavior. Guilt does. Shame is used to get people to oppress themselves. This is also why we cannot shame up the hierarchy. White men in power...

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Fallacies about Racism

Oppressive hierarchies cannot exit without reliance on fallacies. White supremacy is maintained by racist ideas that seem to justify it. However, when we scratch the surface, we find that these ideas...

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Undemocratic Institutions

When we think about democracy, we usually think of a model for the government, how a country is run. Maybe that’s a mistake. Maybe this is partly why the U.S. experiment is now being tested in a way it...

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Corrupt Trump is a Symptom

After Corrupt Trump was elected, I was under shock. How could people vote for this man? He stands for everything I dislike – and seems to clearly violate American values (not to mention norms and...

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United Fantasy

Coming back to the United States from Europe is always hard for me. There seems to be something different about Europe that I am missing in the U.S. Europe feels more like home. There is more of a...

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