on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism
Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.
1. we are right to criticize the many problems in higher education
2. fascists manipulate people into hating anyone involved in higher education for supposedly looking down on them and being worthless to the “real world.” as a result, funding for education is cut, especially for the arts, no one listens to historians who point out that history is repeating itself or speak out against the regime, freedom of speech is lost in favor of the party line, and/or climate change kills us all since no one listens to scientists.
3. therefore, when we criticize higher education, we should be careful not to contribute to fascist tropes that claim that having knowledge is bad/smug/out of touch/useless to society.
Let me try:
1. Universities and colleges with long histories often keep using the power structures they began with: favoring the rich and ruling classes, while society changes around them (That’s how we get phrases like “The Ivory Tower”).
2. It’s good to question this, and to finally get these universities and colleges to be more open to students from less privileged classes (economic, racial, gender, orientation, disability, etc.).
3. But instead of criticizing the power structures, fascists demonize learning and thinking, and say that people who try to learn too much (or learn things “above their station”) can’t be trusted, and are “enemies of the state.”
4. When this happens, people become afraid to question the government or government-appointed “experts,” and tyrants move in and start doing whatever they want (making it even better for the rich and ruling classes, and worse for everyone else).
Idg why people are against busty women in turtlenecks, literally who cares if you have “uniboob”? To whom do you owe separate and defined titties? Only cowards and fools fear the breast monolith
do you ever just suddenly learn there’s apparently a whole Discourse you’ve never heard of before
Re-reblog with some extra notes because a lot of people are just like ‘we’re all fucked/we’re gonna die’.
Listen, not all food is equally as contaminable. Some small notes are stay away from delicate greens because they grow on thre ground where the poop is but cannot stand up to rigorous washing OR cooking, which is why stuff like romaine lettuce and baby spinach is a problem.
All other veggies can and should be thoroughly washed, and if you eat a lot of raw veg and want to be safe- cook it. People have shit on cooking food lately with all the raw vegan hype but guess why we humans started to do it? Two main reasons, one is increased nutrient absorption, the other is you don’t get the shits and die as often from cooked food.
Also, meat is not your friend right now. If you are used to eating meat, I would avoid it and switch to eggs, which are sealed and even if the outsides came from a chicken’s ass, the inside is safe. Fish also tends to be cleaner and is always less at risk of pathogens than farm meat but again, be careful.
This is survivable, if it wasn’t there’d be no point to warning you. Y'all will not survive what’s coming if you see every bit of news as proof of your doom.
Forewarned is forearmed. Be safe, be sharp, be helpful.
im stupid™ but,,why are we avoiding meat? you can cook out the Nasty Stuff™, right?
Meat is incredibly susceptible to contamination and can easily transmit food-borne illness even when well-cooked. Sometimes meat simply isn’t fully cooked when people think it is. Cross-contamination with other foods is also a common problem.
I had to explain to a 16 year old girl yesterday why 21+ year old men target minors to have dating/sexual relationships with. and why she shouldn’t think it’s normal, healthy behavior.
she threw the phrases “age ain’t nothing but a number” and “love is love” out to me, and I had to deconstruct and redefine both those phrases to her so she better understands what they really mean.
with that being said, let’s be mindful of what we say to the youth because as “mature for their age” as they seem, they still don’t possess the full cognitive capability to assess everything they take in.
Yes and a lot of those men want to manipulate and “get in early”. They take advantage of their naivety and get away with shit they know a woman who’s older and got some sense won’t let them get away with.
