reminds me of my biology teacher who before teaching us evolution explained that she is being forced to teach it against her will so we can pass tests, but that she disagrees with it and that we shouldn’t feel pressured to actually believe evolution … this woman was teaching my AP biology class in senior year of high school, and previously had worked in the medical field and retired as a teacher

obviously Christianity was involved

Even if a majority if indigenous folks didn’t mind the label, it’s still a label born of ignorance. It’s not like it becomes just OK because the surviving oppressed minority incorrectly labelled that way by the colonists are OK with it.

yeah, I’m not really doubting OP’s intentions, I’m just trying to clue them in to how others might see their post so they aren’t surprised if it gets flagged

I think race issues were apparent to me as a young child, but it took the form of feeling insecure and unsure how to interact with racial minority peers of mine in school and so on, not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable but feeling fragile around them and thus accidentally introducing stigma. It was an awful feeling, and something that just didn’t happen with other students.

Ah good point, this was like junior or senior year, I guess I thought of them as women.

I bet this person called themselves a Christian.

then how do you explain the y in papaya? checkmate professor

My chemistry teacher didn’t understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn’t entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.

My anatomy and physiology teacher told the class he believed the entire Middle East should be nuked, after showing the wikipedia article on Ross Perot and talking about how the country is in decline because Perot lost the presidential election.

He also body shamed women during class, and told women that if they are behind on cooking dinner they can just throw some garlic and onion in a pan and their husbands would smell the good aromas and not know any better.

He also required students to dance and he video recorded every dance, this was not optional and had nothing to do with the curriculum, but it was treated very seriously like an end-of-class thesis. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to worry about what he was doing with those video tapes. This was at the same high school where it turns out one of the coaches was molesting the students.

thank you 😅

where I live it’s not exactly perfectly fine to be out of the closet, lol - your mileage may vary, significantly, and people definitely still live in the closet, acceptance is not universal even if it’s much, much better than it was before (and you can see this in the generational differences, older people are less likely to come out of the closet and younger people are more likely to).

Just a warning, your question might be interpreted as violating rule 5:

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

That said, I don’t see why cringing about racism is controversial, if anything it’s the majority view that racism is bad.

If you are genuinely interested in learning about where racism comes from, feel free to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Aristotle for example argued that non-Greek slaves innately lacked a will and thus depended on their Greek masters as rulers the way children depend on their parents (he made similar arguments justifying the supremacy of men over women). These views have a long history, and it’s worth learning about. You might start with the culture you are in (not sure if you’re from the U.S. or not) and read a few academic primers about race and the history of race in your culture.

You might also wonder what race is, and for philosophical questions about race I would start here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/

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Being a woman is “marked” while being a man is just the default, so anything that strays from the “default” sticks out and it seems reasonable that it requires justification. This goes in reverse in some cases, like the need to refer to someone as a “male nurse” - why do we feel we need to say this? Because the default nurse is assumed to be female.

that’s a good point, but clearly what I meant by “aid” was FEMA aid - because she didn’t receive FEMA aid, she is in favor of dissolving FEMA entirely, without thought to what this would mean for anyone else

You’re right, falling short of expectations is a great justification to receive no aid at all. Or in the case of the article, being denied aid justifies denying everyone else aid.

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• first released at a Berlin film festival yesterday (Feb 15, 2025)
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