the reason i got so pissed off last night and wrote that post was cause i was reading about the deaths of children by being restrained and it was these graphic descriptions of their deaths and i was really upset by it
but then in the middle of the article about children dying there were quotes from like people from the apa and stuff, and some of the quotes were like “oh this is a problem and we need to fix it” but there was this one quote that was like “oh restraints are very humane these days. people think of them as medieval torture devices but really they’re just so humane”
and i was so fucking pissed not because i was angry at the person who made that comment, though i was, but because it’s hardly an uncommon opinion
there’s this very prevalent idea that “oh hospitals used to be these awful bad places but now they’re so kind and helpful and therapeutic”. and this idea is more prevalent than the idea that “maybe holding children down till they stop breathing is a bad thing”
and it just makes me so beyond angry. that people can die, that people can kill them, and everyone will go, oh, but the practice of having multiple adults push a child to floor and hold them there, that’s so humane, and therapeutic and necessary
like i don’t know how to be rational about this. i don’t how it isn;t fucking obvious to people just automatically that killing children is bad. you’d think it would be obvious
Top photo was taken of Mamaw in 1960s or 70s. This photo has always been one of my favorites of her. Last week, while blazing the back roads, I found this awesome barn, and Mamaw’s photo
instantly
came to mind. We whipped the car around, I climbed in the window, and remade her photo. It’s not exactly the same, but I wouldn’t want it to be. Close enough to be cool though! I was really excited, and even more so once I got the two together! I think it’s pretty neat! I can’t wait to get them printed for Mamaw, she’s gonna flip. ❤
I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.
We don’t even teach about the moundbuilders in the US even though they are fucking fascinating and several founding fathers were obsessed with them and their mounds were literally everywhere. Just all over the fuckin place. They thought they predated American Indians because the savages clearly did not have the intellect to achieve such feats.
We don’t even teach the white washed history. We just destroyed 10′s of thousands of mounds and turned them into crop fields. Cahokia is the same size as the great pyramid and bigger than the big one in Mexico. They had trade networks from Mexico to Canada…. They were a very big deal and they were still here when the Spanish and Pilgrims first came…. We don’t teach it at all.
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