- 1:02 am - Sun, Feb 3, 2013
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Schools have classes called “women’s studies,” and “African-American literature” because the standard for existence set by white men has yet to be rescinded in this age. “Normal” history is the history of a certain class of white people, from the perspective of men. All the other histories are precisely that: Other.
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. (via)
Yep.
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Man, really wish I could have printed this out and put it on my binders to show the smarmy white dudes I encountered who smirked when “women’s history” was brought up.
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- 12:15 am
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Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.
- 7:43 pm - Fri, Jan 18, 2013
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
disquietingtruths:
- Student-Loan Debt.
- Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.
- Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.
- “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”
- Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their Schooling—Seriously.
- The Normalization of Surveillance.
- Television.
- Fundamentalist Religion and Fundamentalist Consumerism.
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This is pretty much all spot on.
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