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See the person, not the people
We’re now US election day plus 10 and the mainstream media is full of coverage about how Donald Trump is refusing to accept the election results. Joe Biden is pushing ahead preparing to be the next president of the United States, and yet nobody seems to be talking about what’s really going on. The media…
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Demons on the left, demons on the right
We’re just a few days away from the US presidential election, and both parties and media are spending their time demonizing each other and their respective supporters. The left blames the right, and the right blames the left. It is the symptom of a highly divided country and a deeply polarized political and media system.…
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How labels kill
It was incredibly sad to read about the shooting of various US congressmen, their staff, and other colleagues a few days ago in Virginia. Besides being yet another in a long list of (mass) shootings in the US, it is another reminder of the stark divisions that exist in US society. And although we’ll never…
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Mirror, Mirror: Build the wall
Many of us spend our time complaining about the things we can’t control: our boss, our colleagues, the neighbours, the economy, politics, and the world at large. If we’re even more unlucky we have reason to complain about our health, our personal finances, and our safety. The world seems sometimes to be a great moving…