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Saviez-vous que le terme «méritocratie» désignait à la base une dystopie? (oupsi, c’est aussi la réalité)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ritocratie#Origine_du_terme

#MastoMonday
I've launched the registration form for #TheReadingRoom #TRR
Season one is Black/Indigenous philosophy, especially phenomenology. Materials, private forums & members only access w remote teaching are all a part of the package I'm offering.

It's my very own program! If you want to learn abt Blk/Indig/Latine studies & new ways for dismantling whiteness in philosophy/politics, this might be for you

https://tinyurl.com/yynvfg6k

Y'a Mediapart qui fait une série d'articles pour les 60 ans d'indépendances d'un certain nombre de pays Africains colonisés par la France.

Je dois dire que c'est plutôt intéressant pour quelqu'un comme moi qui connaît assez mal cette période de l'histoire. C'est assez violent quand même, toutes les crasses que la France a fait.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/dossier/international/il-y-60-ans-les-independances-africaines

Prison abolition means deincarcerating your thought; it means not imagining prisons and jails and retributive punishment as your immediate thought on concerns of accountability.

People listen when someone casually brings up a past trauma as a way to subtly request you stop what you're doing challenge.

«Ask an Autistic» is a serie of videos made by an autistic person explaining what is autism, the concepts used to describe autistic experiences, and how autism is considered by society.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAoYMFsyj_k1ApNj_QUkNgKC1R5F9bVHs

#autism

Irony is always exclusionary, because it divides its audience into two groups: those that get it, and those that don't. Even if every human being in the world takes an ironic statement the same way, in order to realise that it's ironic they must first glean the statement's ironic meaning. Before you become the person who gets it, you are always first the person who doesn't get it. Irony always creates a grey area.

People should be held morally responsible for what they say, which means they can't be given a get-out-of-jail-free card by claiming it's a joke. When you make a joke about something, you're still saying something about that thing. Most of the time what you're saying is utterly inconsequential, but sometimes it isn't. In any case, nothing is ever "just a joke" because every joke is a also a statement.

People who haven’t grown up in heavily Italian-American communities don’t know this, and are lying if they say they do, but there are thousands of Italian-Americans who gleefully and actively use the notion that they’re people of color or somehow adjacent to nonwhiteness as a shield against horrific racism. When you’re calling out Italian jokes, be careful that you’re not enabling this destructive and disgusting idea. Because as someone from Guidoland, USA, it’s real, and it’s pervasive.

There’s a *lot* of ableist language in common parlance. These words and similar ones exist as slurs towards neurodivergent folks in particular. Try pushing yourself to replace/eliminate them.

crazy, insane, mental ➡️ wild, surprising, hectic
dumb, stupid ➡️ foolish, silly
idiot, moron, dumbass ➡️ bigot, asshole, fool

In addition, you are encouraged to think through what you’re trying to say better, and address what the real issue worth criticising is. And if you can’t rephrase it, maybe it didn’t need to be said at all.
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can we give more love to Sarah Schachner work please? <3 (composer for Anthem, Assassin's Creed, Iron Man, The Expandables...)

You don't need to speak English like a native

It's okay to have "weird" pacing when speaking. It's also okay to make sentences with correct meaning but uncommon phrasing

Don't allow yourself to pause because you're struggling to find the most native-sounding way to phrase what you mean

Just express what you mean in the most comfortable way to you

There's no "broken" English. English isn't owned by Americans or the British. For better or worse, it's become an international language.

Normalise going to European countries, sticking a flag in the ground, and saying you own them now. Then rewriting the Wikipedia page to credit yourself with their discovery.

Me, when someone is expressing the slightest romantic or sexual interest toward me.

https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/april-flowers/ep-20/viewer?title_no=1363&episode_no=21

Me, when I see an heterosexual relationship in a fiction: “This is cool and everything, but why didn’t you just make it gay instead?”

#AbolishThePolice #AbolissonsLaPolice

http://indigenes-republique.fr/oui-nous-voulons-litteralement-abolir-la-police/

existentialism levels are 45% and steady

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j'ai créé une campagne gofundme si vous voulez m'aider à pourvoir aux besoins du foyer :/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/aidezmoi-a-ne-pas-perdre-mon-appartement?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

mes revenus ne suffisent pas...

svp si vous ne pouvez pas donner, un RT ne coûte rien 🙏