How the dance music scene tokenizes Black talent and rewrites its own history:
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“The fact remains that these workers are treated as less-than by German employers, even as the meat industry makes overtures to asylum seekers.” thebaffler.com/latest/into-th…

When a Boston Dynamics robot goes viral on Twitter for accomplishing some stupid little task, we’ll be booing. Join us by subscribing to the Human Error newsletter, a roundup of our stories on tech and society.
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As Schuyler Mitchell argues, ethnonationalism treats both trans people and minorities as demographic threats. This holds true on both the American right, and among Zionists as well.
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“Love for Black music doesn’t indicate a love for Black people, but Black pop dance music was and is insanely popular even when you factor in a riotous racial backlash or two. So what was revolutionary about listening to it?”
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This is a horrific story about how SEALs leverage their killing work into $$$ and is a metaphor for the whole US: Eddie 'Gallagher remains remarkable for successfully leveraging his history of violence into an upper middle-class existence.'

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From edna bonhomme, phd, on Germany’s migrant meat-processing workers, who feed the country and yet often lack protection—and health care—on the job. thebaffler.com/latest/into-th…

“Extending rights to other forms of nonhuman life entails fighting to counteract the rights of corporations and the remarkable power personhood allows profit-seeking ventures.”
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“By reducing house and techno to race music, we reduce the vitality of these contributions and the talents of the people who make them.”
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it's true. i do do that.

Zionists claim queer solidarity with Palestinians is incoherent. Schuyler Mitchell calls bullshit.
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In Germany, meat-processing workers are disproportionately migrants, many from central and eastern Europe or sub-Saharan Africa. Their work is essential, but they face discrimination and labor abuses. thebaffler.com/latest/into-th…

In our new issue, Hubert Adjei-Kontoh writes on Detroit techno, corporate posturing, and self-actualization on the dance floor.
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“There is no freedom for the dead, and Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaign has not liberated any queer Palestinians living in Gaza.”
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The Navy turned the SEALs into a major brand in order to juice recruitment. This had a consequence the military never anticipated: some of the worst guys imaginable are spinning their veteran status into influencer careers.
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“To call it a class parable with no discernible lesson may sound like an oxymoron, but the contradiction illuminates a great deal about the nature of power.”
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You know him; you love him; folks, it’s MAX PEARL, with an absolute banger of a review in The Baffler diving deep into one of the year’s —or decade’s — most exciting new works of translations
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Propaganda from Israel’s supporters is increasingly ideologically indistinguishable from the hatred that flows from the American right—especially when it comes to queer and trans people who dare to express support for Palestine.
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i wrote about the ideological and rhetorical links between transphobia and zionism for The Baffler
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“Whereas the first big wave of SEAL celebrities chiefly focused on telling war stories, the emerging class is often engaged in the work of arming civilians with the tools and traits of warriors.”
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