My undergraduate students are functionally illiterate and everyday I have to open Twitter to see takes like "20 year old boys are thinking about Roberto Bolaño" and "everyone's reading Thomas Bernhard to impress women." What reality do you guys live in?
@vt__snowflake Probably around the same time their alumni in power started defunding public arts and humanities in favor of STEM. It’s how we got illiterate idiots with high test scores who sue colleges over not getting in.
@StopTweetingMia Nikki didn’t seem like an especially likeable character to me, but Bear’s POV put her on an uncomfortable pedestal. Her character reminds me of Beck from You. I didn’t like her or think her choices were wise, but she didn’t deserve any of that, and the story makes that clear.
@LibAutie@ChristianityOn There is no power in being dependent on people’s charity. Asking disabled people to expect pity or to require it is regressive. Autonomy means a level of responsibility to yourself and others that is uncomfortable because it means you may be held accountable, but it is necessary.
@LibAutie@ChristianityOn Maybe they can, but that’s not a requirement. I can appreciate what you’re trying to do, but disabled people shouldn’t be dependent on a groups generosity. There is power in being told they can set standards for themselves and meet them, even if it is tough.
@dieworkwear That would mean that they risk the discomfort of being disliked for who they are. It’s a natural consequence in the process of meeting people, but for people plagued with fear or low distress tolerance, it’s hell.
You can kiss as many cheerleaders as you want Chad but you'll never replicate the fulfillment I get from reading Dostoevsky and discussing it on 4chan /lit/
@squirterlad@Gwaza_Victoria No, he misunderstood “your” in the comment to be mean his instead of the general public. Given the context, it was an honest mistake/misunderstanding.
We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.
@CartoonsHateHer@credenzaclear2 Gonna take it a step further and say what no one else is brave enough to: men don’t need a job or an education when they’re hot. You don’t need to know how to read if you’re sexy.
The rest of you? Hit the books or the oil rig.