Incidentally, this is a great example of why it is absolutely vital to defend human rights in all cases; the instant people work out which categories are publicly viewed as indefensible, they start figuring out how to fold other types of undesirables into those category.
Eg. Pornography criminalized? Great, information about birth control, sexual education, and writing by feminists and LGBTQ people are all pornography now.
Terrorism? Literally all activists are terrorists if you put a good enough spin on it! Easy.
And, of course, “sex offenders” includes teenagers who take nude selfies, sex workers of basically all kinds, LGB people in jurisdictions that criminalize gay sex, often trans people in ones that criminalize crossdressing…
The new Heroic Works display at the Bodleian Libraries showcases some wonderful examples of modern bookbinding, comprising of entries from the Designer Bookbinders 3rd International Bookbinding Competition 2017.
The brief for the binders this year was to focus on the theme of ‘Myths, Heroes & Legends.’
The first prize of £10,000 was given to Germany’s Andrea Odametey for Daedelus and Icarus. Her book is now part of the permanent collection at the Bodleian Libraries.
Daedalus and Icarus by Andrea Odametey.
The second prize of £6,000 was given to the UK’s Rachel Ward-Sale for The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. Her work now joins the Getty Collection at Wormsley.
Behaviorist ideology says that there are four basic reasons people do things: to get things/activities, to get pleasant sensations, to avoid something they dislike, or to get attention.
All of these are real reasons people do things, and it’s useful to keep them in mind. It’s also important to remember that they are not the only reasons people do things. People also have thoughts, feelings, and values.
This behaviorist framing assumes that human beings are fundamentally amoral and selfish. Behaviorism has no room for courage, integrity, or concern for justice. In real life, values matter.
For instance: People who would not steal to support themselves will put their lives on the line to protest cuts to Medicaid. People who find it humiliating to be publicly praised as ~inspiring~ will call congress to fight bad policies, including bad policies that affect groups other than their own. There’s more going on than attention. Values matter.
In activism and advocacy, it’s often useful to show others that it’s in their interests to support our policies. (Eg: “Your constituents care about Medicaid, and you’ll lose your seat if you vote for a bill that would cut it”, or “No matter how responsible you are, you could get sick tomorrow and need access to Medicaid.”
It’s *also* useful to show them that the policies matter within *values* they already care about. For instance, if someone cares about religious freedom, it could be useful to point out that institutionalized people lose access to their houses of worship and other things they need in order to practice their religion on their terms. If someone cares about encouraging people to work, it could be useful to point out ways in which Home and Community Based disability services make it possible for people to work.
It’s also important to make a case for our values more broadly. People don’t understand what ableism is and why it’s bad. Many people are receptive to learning, if it’s explained in a way that they can understand. It’s not just about self-interest. It’s also about values. People can understand right and wrong, and act accordingly, whether they are marginalized or privileged.
Privilege doesn’t need to prevent someone from being a good person and doing the right thing. There’s more to life than behaviorism and self interest. People are capable of caring about their values more than they care about enjoying the advantages of privilege.
tl;dr Behaviorism reduces everything people do to self-interest, with no room for values. Activism based solely on privilege analysis falls into the same mistake. We need to keep in mind that all people are capable of learning to tell right from wrong and act accordingly. We need to make the case for our values, in a way that people can understand. Lives depend on it.
hey parents: there is literally no non-abusive reason a person would want the ability to read someone’s emails, track their location, and go through their calls and text messages without their knowledge or consent.
I want to address the person who tagged this “what if they’re missing??”
what
this does is allow you to set up a list of people who are able to
request your location. when they do so, you have five minutes to either
refuse or grant the request. if you don’t respond within five minutes,
the request is automatically accepted, in case you’re hurt or otherwise
unable to get to your phone. your trusted contacts can also see how
recently you used your device.
in other words: if someone
genuinely wants to know if you’re okay, they can check the app and see
that you’ve used your phone five minutes ago, and that can be the end of
it. if they want to be doubly sure, or it says you haven’t used your phone recently, they can request your location. if
you want them to know where you are, or you can’t answer, they’ll have
your exact location within five minutes. if you don’t want them to know
where you are, you click deny, and they still see that you got the
request and responded to it, meaning, again, they know you’re okay. this is safety with accountability: you can’t track someone’s location without their consent unless they fail to respond to the notification, and you can’t do it without them knowing about it.
if you want to track a friend or loved one for genuine safety reasons, set this up. it gives you all the access you need if your concern is actually for the other person’s well-being, rather than a desire for control. (it’s not out for iOS yet, but Google says that’s coming soon).
(also: don’t be the jackass that makes a rule that someone has to accept all your location requests because that makes you just as bad as the people who install tracking shit covertly.)
It’s not abusive in any way for a parent to want to know where their underage child is and who they’re talking to, and saying so is a foul misuse of the term “abuse”.
anyway like I said there is literally no non-abusive reason a person would want the ability to read someone’s emails, track their location, and go through their calls and text messages without their knowledge or consent
I’m glad you live in a world where adults don’t groom kids on the net, or by calling them or sending them text messages.
I live in this world:
a world where parents are an order of magnitude more dangerous to children than “adults grooming them on the internet”, and giving parents unchecked powers of surveillance is for that reason alone more likely to put kids at risk than to keep them safe.
I live in this world:
a world where the psychologically debilitating effects of surveillance are well-established and well-known, yet adults do everything in their power to invade young people’s privacy and then ask dumbass questions like “why are kids so anxious?” and come up with answers like “it’s probably because of selfies”
I live in this world:
a world where invasion of privacy is recognized as an integral part of emotional abuse, but parents still get away with it because “they’re just doing it to keep them safe uwu~”, despite the fact that this is the same line the goddamn NSA gives us and most of us don’t take that sack of lies from them.
tldr, I live in a world where you’re not just wrong, you’re promoting attitudes that are actively harmful and you need to sit down, shut up, and listen when people are trying to educate you about issues of justice and safety.
Once again, profit and globalization over the interests of the local industry (local fishing of wild Pacific salmon off the coast of British Columbia) and the environment (dying wild Pacific salmon, which the upward cascade effect on the predators of those salmon, mostly orca).
Excerpt:
In the 1970s, Norsk Hydro in Norway began farming salmon in pens in the ocean and today a farmed salmon is worth more to Norwegians than a barrel of oil. The industry has become as rapacious as the oil industry. With more than 900 farms dotting their coast, they have now spread across temperate coastlines worldwide and unfortunately they took their prize livestock with them, the Atlantic salmon.
Biologists, fishermen, indigenous leaders and senior Fisheries and Oceans Canada bureaucrats warned that allowing Atlantic salmon into BC was a dangerous game of “Russian Roulette.” Every farm fish carried the potential for a disease that could spread among Pacific salmon. Importing exotic species is one of the greatest causes of the global loss of biodiversity.
However, caution was tossed aside and three Norwegian companies now use the coast of BC to farm millions of Atlantic salmon, with most of the attending environmental damages attributed to the industry at home sea lice, disease, drugs, pollution. As a biologist studying whales as the industry moved in, I have witnessed the crushing impact of this industry first hand; unprecedented toxic algae blooms, the whales were displaced by high-amplitude “seal scarers,” escaped Atlantics in Pacific rivers, sea lice eating the majority of wild salmon to the point of death and today I am tracking salmon farm viruses plaguing the industry worldwide. The industry had become the dominant “user group” of the BC coast. There was no touching them. The Norwegian scientists I turned to for help suggested I look the other way, they said the industry and the Canadian government would make life difficult for me.
“Make a Man Out of You” from Mulan was sung by Jackie Chanin Mandarin Chinese.
I just thought you should know.
So for some reason this post is exploding in my notifications. So enjoy it, maybe?
They wanted him to play the part in English as well (I think?), but he was worried about his accent. If you look up the video on YouTube, he does fight demonstrations while he’s singing.
Oh my gosh, tell me how to be a man, Jackie Chan
Thanks, @anniecardi! I should learn to embed videos. 😉
In case y’all didn’t know: Jackie Chan is an operatically trained vocalist. Like, he’s LEGITIMATELY AN OPERA SINGER. Truly one of the most talented men alive.
My skin just cleared watching this. OMG!!
THIS MAN IS PURE GOLD!!!
I HAD NO IDEA JACKIE CHAN WAS A TRAINED OPERA SINGER HOLY SHIT.
Precious little dove baby hatched May 2nd- eyes just opened today!
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