naraburns
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naraburns
nihil supernum
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nihil supernum
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nihil supernum
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I don't think so. It's rarely publicly acknowledged for various culture war reasons, but there is a lot of anti-Semitism baked into black culture in America, not least because we know that individual Jews were often the people profiting handsomely from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Thomas seems to have wanted to defuse that animosity, and as a black Jewish philosopher he was a plausible figure for the attempt. The thesis of the book, if I may be forgiven some significant oversimplification of his argument, is that tragedies are incommensurable and we're better off acknowledging them on their own terms than trying to rank them (or each other).
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