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Aaron Rabinowitz
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Aaron Rabinowitz is a lecturer in philosophy at Rutgers University, and host of the Embrace The Void and Philosophers in Space podcast.
We can understand the effect of privilege better when we consider it in terms of moral luck
Terms like 'privilege' have, rightly or wrongly, become divisive - a simpler, and perhaps more fitting, question to ask is how lucky we've been
What is ‘value’? Reconciling ethics with scientific materialism
Skeptics can be uncomfortable reconciling ethics with a materialist worldview, but one solution is to accept that 'value' can be an objective concept
Counterweight, and the continued enabling of bad faith ‘anti-woke’ actors
The 'anti-woke helpline' Counterweight launched in a flurry of uncritical media interviews, but are less forthcoming when it comes to answering reasonable questions from critics
The American Culture War: Coming soon to a politics near you
Culture war issues have long been used to try to derail social progress, but as exhausting as they are, they're worth pushing back against
Bill Cooper: the conspiracy theorist who links afrofuturist “Hoteps” with Alex Jones
The afrofuturist Hotep movement echoes conspiracy theorist Alex Jones because they're all pulling from the same source material: Bill Cooper
“Who decides?”: how fair questions can derail meaningful action
The question of who gets to decide how boundaries are set in society can often be a way to distract from efforts to change the status quo
Can you recognise antisemitism when you see it? An interactive meme adventure
After Disney dropped one of their stars over antisemitic social media posts, we look at common problematic tropes in 'anti-globalist' imagery
Beware the ‘They’: once we believe in hidden, evil cabals, we can be convinced of anything
By blaming an unseen "They" for all that's wrong, conspiracy theories block any genuine skepticism - and that's what makes them so dangerous