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On ML Clark's recommendation

https://substack.com/home/post/p-146862679

I've been watching EVIL, with Mike Colter from LUKE CAGE and Aasif Mandvi from THE DAILY SHOW.

They clearly know how to play the game, balancing "wins" for science and religion alternately from episode to episode, juggling the balls to keep the debate going. Even between threads within a single episode, as in s1e5:"Halloween Night." But what I'm haunted by is the fact that today at the B&N, I saw an albino woman who might be killed as a witch in some parts of Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_people_with_albinism

and a documentary I saw a year or more ago about a psychotic woman waterboarded to death by her own family in New Zealand.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/the-real-story-behind-the-exorcism-of-janet-moses/news-story/02b55149f2c5573cf0b111680c68af07

People take these metaphors seriously.

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I removed the temporary Zoom link.

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