“Inappropriate student-teacher relationship” doesn’t always mean something sexual. My high school art teacher’s drug dealer was one of her own students, and you better believe he got straight As in that class – like, what are you going to do, give your weed man a B- because he doesn’t understand pointilism?
My favourite thing about this post is people getting offended that the sixteen-year-old drug dealer doesn’t understand pointilism.
It all started when baker Duff Goldman of Ace Of Cakes fame tweeted out this photo:
The cake on the left is the one I made for
President Obama’s inauguration 4 years ago. The one on the right is
Trumps. I didn’t make it. pic.twitter.com/qJXpCfPhii
As Goldman points out, Donald Trump’s inauguration cake looks
suspiciously like the one he made for Barack Obama in 2013. But the
story got even better when the bakery that made the cake in question
chimed in too:
I know it sounds like a joke, but “the agriculture lobby” is actually a major part of the reason we don’t have laws that focus more on exploited agricultural workers rather than people doing sexual labour. #sexwork #labourrights
Can you even imagine the havoc it would cause if he deported farm workers? We would all starve. Literally, we would run out of food unless companies could employ Americans just as quickly. They probably can’t because they wouldn’t be able to get away with treating people as poorly as they do the migrants who grow our food.
That is LITERALLY true.
Not to sound like that guy from Parks and Rec but having worked at the Bureau of Labour AND having done research into trafficking—even the companies that treat their workers LEGALLY are paying starvation wages; there are hundreds and hundreds of farm that depend on a mix of exploited and uncoerced labour.
The government has made it incredibly hard for trafficked workers to get justice: IF they are able to get away and report it, they then have to stay in the same geographic location (often dangerous) AND if they aren’t citizens or in the states on a work visa they aren’t allowed to work, but the gov’t isn’t paying their rent or bills or food,
and THEN often ICE will deport such workers because god knows deporting them is way more important than forcing unethical motherfuckers to abide by the law and keeping track of and punishing those who don’t.
Honesto Silva Ibarra. 28 years old, a wife and three kids, working on an H2A visa from Mexico.
Collapsed in Washington berry fields while the sky was yellow with haze from the bad wildfires in British Columbia late last summer. His employers had previously denied a request for sick leave. By the time they got him to medical treatment it was too late – he died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
When three of his coworkers complained about the work conditions, they were fired.
Familias Unidas por la Justicia (Families United for Justice) is working to organize these laborers, I don’t want to end this story on a defeat when the braceros certainly haven’t been defeated. But Ibarra had all the proper legal documentation in place. Imagine how undocumented workers are treated.
Y’all think your professors are salty or petty? My freshman year my intro to anthropology prof overheard some dudebro say some homophobic shit and altered the entire semester’s plan to accommodate three new lectures about homophobia and gender identity and presentation in various cultures. This is to say three ADDITIONAL lectures to go with the one she already have planned.
Important addition: She changed the wallpaper on her computer to a picture her with her wife and two kids. So the first thing we saw when we came into class every day for the remainder of the semester was basically their christmas card
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