cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19738133
It is really sad how many people would trust teachers in a classroom with guns but not books.
Frankly, I’m at the point where I’m starting to question if even that part:whole relationship is really applicable.
Don’t get me wrong: I understand why it’s a really bad thing to start dehumanizing your enemy, but WTF are you supposed to do when they jettison everything but venal hatred and sociopathy and thus dehumanize themselves?
You’re supposed to understand that the vast majority of society are shallow idiots that’ve been misled by immersion in state-sponsored propaganda.
Then, engage the socialists and communists. They know what to do, why, and how. The last time we had the numbers for meaningful change was the late 1940s: Veterans of WW1 became armed socialists and communists which resulted in The New Deal.
Corporate personhood is what’s made much of this incarnation possible. If you want to dehumanize something then focus on the root cause.
They are also trying to get rid of teachers. Eventually charter schools will just have a person in a classroom pressing play for a video and handing out papers. Grading and testing will be done through computers. A psych report will be made for each student to determine how to brainwash them further.
Republicans don’t want freedom, they want to be feared. Because fear is respect to them. And the imbued threat by carrying a gun and the false demand of respect it projects is useless. At no point in human history, regardless of the punishment, has crime of any sort not existed. Carting around guns on every hip won’t change that at all.
I wonder how many students changed their minds about becoming teachers because of what’s been going on over the last few years.
Knee-jerk ignorant republican impulse after knee-jerk ignorant republican impulse, enabled and lubricated by the gullible and lazy non-voting bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL idiots, you end up in a completely preventable hellhole.
gullible and lazy non-voting bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL idiots,
They aren’t gullible and lazy. Neither Democrats nor Republicans are campaigning for their issues.
One good example is Medicare for All, which is supported by a majority of voters, but not supported by Harris and Trump.
True. And if anyone thinks it can’t happen where they are, they should ask themselves “does my country have social media? Do we have a good grasp of media literacy?”
Because (spoiler) it can happen and probably is right now. You’ve got some version of Fox News, you’ve got some version of Trump and you’ve got some population of MAGA Qanuts. Everywhere.
Well you’re not wrong in your point, we have that as well, but most of our Qanuts are watching American Fox News (and all the related crazies on YT) exactly because our media is such that Fox News wasn’t allowed to call itself Fox News, because of how shit it was. So Fox does broadcast here, but none of their news shows.
However, even if the propaganda is of a higher quality and not as intentional, it’s still there.
The core problem is the same. Greedy asshole doing whatever for more profits. We just have better regulations so it’s not yet as bad, but that’s the direction we’re headed.
Finland, btw.
That’s fascinating. I hope you can figure it out, because it’s a silver bullet to Idiocracy and division.
I’d love to think Finland could make media literacy a thing and have the first population who understood why those YT crazies look and sound the way they do before even seeing or hearing word one.
its extremely preventable too, Americans are extremely ignorant and brainwashed as you mentioned.
Tbf it does not help the problem to pretend there aren’t smart people in America and dumb people elsewhere. I like to joke about 'Murica as much as the next dude, but late stage capitalism is a global issue, and every country has the brainwashed nigh media illiterate population as well.
This is a really good point, but I feel like an English teacher would have written “whom I married.”
Non native English speaker here with a genuine question; wouldn’t “telling the students whom I married” mean that the teacher married the students instead of telling students about their spouse?
Either a comma or parentheses are what would make the difference.
I will tell the students whom I married.
Now the students know who was at your wedding.
I will tell the students, whom I married.
I will tell the students (whom I married).
You’re only telling something to the students that you married.
They are only stopping the “who I married”-teachers form selecting the books.
The “whom I married”-teachers get to select the book for them.
