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I think Mumia is probably guilty and while there were some questionable details at original trial, probably doesn't deserve another retrial (note - not a belief I apply to other similar cases, just that one).

― Neanderthal, Friday, October 7, 2016 10:14 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Came here to post this. Also believe Leonard Peltier to be guilty as well. And that activism that supports them and disingenuously elides their likely guilt is unethical.

i've never watched more than a stray minute of it, and i know a lot of people that love it, but Democracy Now seems really bad to me

Now or ever tbh

democracy? in THIS economy??

I kind of RMDE every time I see a social justice "educator" on facebook asking people to paypal them money for doing the emotional labor of posting stuff on facebook.

that's a much more mild reaction than i would have

Yeah, that's not something I've seen on FB so far. Is it really a thing?

I've seen it a few times in the last few months, seems like a fairly new thing.

The pattern I have generally seen is someone will make some "problematic" post, then an "educator" will step in and insist that they need to make it clear why the post is problematic, and they're right but usually do so in an extremely OTT and hand-wringy way, then they either mention their paypal account or one of their friends will say something like "Thank you so much, can I please send you some money for doing the emotional labor of educated everyone here?"

I've seen everything you describe up until the Paypal part.

My sweet christ

some colleagues in my field who do a lot of social justice work often complain about conference invites & speakerships & the "emotional labor" required to speak on these topics esp for white audiences and i understand the desire not to be tokenized as a "diversity speaker" but on the other hand you are getting recognition and people are interested in hearing you speak and want to learn from you! most people in our field are not getting that attention

one person in particular tweets about this all the time and it ends up just looking like a humble brag

How do become an "educator"

set up a paypal account obvs

The iteration of this I saw recently was where a kind of dumb and naive-seeming white lady posted something about wanting to ship her used clothing to some woman in Kenya that she met through facebook. A bunch of people were already sort of gently explaining why she might be making the wrong assumptions, why used clothing is actually over-abundant in places like Kenya, etc. so it was already kind of unnecessary and then the "educator" jumped in like "I'm sorry, but I really need to explain why this is so problematic and completely erases people of color and..." etc. with all the current catchphrases and jargon. And then somewhere along the line her paypal account came up.

the sad thing is that she's begging for money on fb when there are plenty of diversity regime positions open to applicants that pay a steady wage

I have a friend who did this once. Seemed ridiculous but I admired the chutzpah.

Maybe they're sensitivity readers (who sometimes get paid) who aren't getting any rough drafts sent to them.

This would be a good schtick for a sockpuppwr though. Posting on social justice threads and then directing other posters to their paypal account.

what happens when the educators start getting into disagreements with each other?

no wait, that's the internet

so you guys aren't subscribed to the safety pin box then?

No, but I actually have two acquaintances from the neighborhood who are, who are also involved in some kind of racial justice org called SURJ, and whose walls were one of the places I first encountered these educators-for-hire. So there seems to be a nexus to all of that.

oh yeah the white people anti-racism org. lol. such a great idea!

lol, the first time I met one of the people (at a meeting where people were saying what orgs they were from, tbc) she introduced herself like this "I'm ___, I'm from SURJ, and I organize white people."

i'm glad somebody's doing that, i'm a mess

I was looking at a friend-of-friend's facebook profile after I saw she'd commented on the same post I had and was curious who she was and it was a white woman with a black husband who was posting about attending a SURJ event and I just blinked a few times and closed the browser. Still no idea how to feel

haha i hate the word "educator." i'm a teacher dammit. when did that become insufficiently fancy as a name for what we do?

it's pronounced "edjumicator"

some people need to get teached

"learnifying engineerimicator" is the current term iirc

The thinky captain

haha i hate the word "educator." i'm a teacher dammit. when did that become insufficiently fancy as a name for what we do?

― horseshoe, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's like 'comedian' vs 'humorist'... you know just by the title that one could be funny, while the other DEFINITELY won't be

SJW Peddlerman

I think in the past I only saw "humorist" applied to someone who worked in writing, like James Thurber

It seems also like there has been a gradual shift in the meanings of humor and comedy, with the older meanings being less directly tied to "stuff that will make you laugh out loud."

But still, fuck that shit, it's boring.

not related to uncool conservative opinions but wrt to paypal I just saw someone who tweeted a short 6-post thread on why the nyer "cat person" is a short story work of fiction and not a "piece" or an "article" after it got a little traction she said "if you are using this thread in your creative writing seminar here is my paypal link"

niiiice

after the year where multiple idiots got famous enough via bad political ideas on twitter to live off of crowdfunding despite having backgrounds in poetry or something, I feel the door is open wide enough that anyone who gets a foothold has a fair chance of breaking through

pure american entrepreneurship is alive

when the crowdfunded liberal bubble bursts the apple podcast app will be a wasteland of abandoned podcast husks that male vitality serum companies will take over like old urls

i like christmas trees & christmas decorations

Discussion of things on the internet is a bad thing

i like christmas trees & christmas decorations

― marcos, Monday, December 11, 2017 11:32 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too. i have a gaudy decorated corner of my office cubicle and everything

markets + money are the best solution to the problem of allocating limited resources to people who don't agree on how they should be allocated

people who are critical of capitalism are often just bad at it

After discovering Lil Pump:

1) Where are this boy's parents?
2) How is everybody involved with his career not being charged with Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor?
3) Where is the system?

I guess I could have had the same thoughts re: Lil Wayne back in the '90s, but I was not-yet-old-enough then to have those type of thoughts.

Poor Lil Pump. Another aspiring young artist cut down by the scourge of fentanyl. Will his senseless death finally be what it takes to spur us to action. Thoughts and... Wait, what's that you say? Wrong guy? They made another one?

I believe Juanita Broadderick 100% and the people on the left who see complications there are fucking cowardly enablers

your mom is hot

markets + money are the best solution to the problem of allocating limited resources to people who don't agree on how they should be allocated

people who are critical of capitalism are often just bad at it

― the late great, Monday, December 11, 2017 7:54 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these i both totally agree with fwiw but i don't think they're actually conservative! lol