Have you guys seen the James Webb telescope pictures yet?
as someone who was already scared of the ocean uhhhhhh
Terrifying depths of the ocean my beloved
Lot of people in the notes saying “It’s because white people don’t want to feel guilt” and I have to say, if your goal is to have kids read shit like Maus so they feel guilty, you’re a shitheel.
For context: This seems like a response to the recent (Jan. 2022) removal of Maus from an 8th grade curriculum in Tennessee. The school board claims it is due to offensive language. They claim they will be continuing to teach about the holocaust, just with a different book. Some call the school board’s motives into question.
That isn't the goal in the slightest, though.
The goal is awareness, and understanding, and to create in each child the need to fight these things when they are first beginning.
The problem is that people -- white people, straight people, cis people, abled people, wealthy people, neurotypical people, people with any privilege -- DO often respond to this sort of thing by feeling guilt.
Remember that video of the white college? student crying in the class about racism? Learning that your group persecuted another apparently often feels like being accused? I don't get it but this is what I hear. And when you are accused, but it isn't a wrong you can personally right, you assume the person wants you to feel...guilt? Maybe this is a side effect of so many people -- and I do not mean this is exclusive to any group of people -- are raised in a society that IS heavy on guilt as a form of social pressure. That we just assume that someone wants guilt from us when they demand change, when what is needed is actually understanding. I don't know. I've never had this mindset. It is super weird to me. But the point isn't and never has been to provoke guilt, but to teach and ideally to provoke action. GOOD teaching will incorporate some conversations about the difficult feelings this stuff CAN arouse in students, and will help them understand and deal with them appropriately.
The sentiment isn't "privileged people don't want to feel guilt" so much as "privileged people are so AFRAID of feeling guilt or letting their kids feel guilt they will react negatively to anything they think is challenging in that way rather than experiencing awareness that may indeed be initially uncomfortable."
Privileged people don't want to be uncomfortable! They really hate it. But learning does create those feelings sometimes, and we have to teach in spite of that.
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I thought it would delight you to know that ants do have a sort of funeral mound for their dead
yes there is a name for this! necrophoresis is a process with social insects where the bodies are taken to a specific location on the outside of ( or within ) the nest - ants tend to keep them all in the same place, and the way an ant is signaled to be "dead" by its other members is through the release of a chemical called oliec acid
theres even been a few experiments where live ants were coated in the same chemical and other ants treated the live ants....exactly as though they were dead and tried dragging them into the pile
Having the hiccups is how it feels to be poisoned in a video game
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idk man, maybe it’s just the british/indian in me jumping out but I’ve always just blindly assumed this lady was holding a teacup, this is the first time I’ve actually looked at her hands and now I’m mad,
Did somebody edit this? It is usually a teacup, right?
ITS A FUCKING CUPCAKE???
WHAT????
Wait were you guys actually horny for anime girls? I just thought we all held a platonic affection and respect for their personalities and accomplishments
My experience with my asexuality has mostly been “I thought we were all like this” and me finding out that others are not in fact like this
No, I just thought it was a cool concept and design
When I say something like that it's almost always intended as an ironic comedic exaggeration, as I thought everyone else was doing.... I didn't realize other people were serious.
