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Decolonial secular humanist & analyst. Autistic & ADHD, white, Mad. I got hit by a car end of 2020 and my hand doesn't work properly now. There is no absolute objective frame of reference. UK based she/her. DMs open. COVID kills. Wear a mask N95+

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fascism isn't a disease. Fascism isn't a disability. Fascism isn't a lack of education. Fascism isn't foreign.

Fascism is a defence of established power and privilege through the dehumanisation of anyone that challenges it.

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 29m

you can't because you don't want to

you're happy to accept all this and you're demanding everyone else does the same

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 40m

they object to that message coming from academia because they see academia as holding valid authority

but people have always been capable of imagining possibilities outside of those boundaries

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

they're more like an intermediate level of state management

they exist within the boundaries of official approval and that grants them impunity

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

they've not been allowed in the room

some of them used to be

but they were bringing down the vibes

so they got kicked out

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

if you need total power to fight fascism then you'll never fight fascism

a lot of people can't afford to just give up like this

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

orthodox classical liberalism

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 2h

that's your experience of being given an unfair advantage

that's the opposite of what people were talking about

you don't seem to have learned that it's possible to honour and respect differences, rather than having to erase them before you can see people as people

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 2h

no

you stood up for yourself to declare yourself pure and good

and that's always a massive red flag

its not helping

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

they assumed they were Smart People and that that meant all the people that mattered would agree with them and everyone else would be irrelevant 🫠

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

no that's what I said

it wasn't intended to be the same as what you'd said

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

I think they assume that people are either Rational and will share their perspective on all of this, or Irrational and therefore irrelevant and safe to ignore

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

Are you saying that the people complaining are being dishonest??

I think most people recognise that they can't entirely control the way they are seen by other people. But that doesn't mean they want no role in that process at all.

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

a lot of people have been saying it's a bad idea for quite a long time now

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 4h

the only way to deliver apolitical politics is for one ideology to establish absolute power over the discourse

and that's not going to happen for either team here

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 4h

some liberals spend so much time telling people to support trump that they might as well be working directly for him

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 5h

computers at least historically had to actually show some indication of delivering the desired results in practice

rather than just being able to insist that reality is wrong when it dares to contradict the theory

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 5h

I think they assume that academia serves as a body that determines which opinions are permitted for the wider public, so if they prevent formal approval of critical analysis then nobody will be able to do it.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 8h

#jobfairy - don' t sleep on this, Dublin City Uni seeking a medievalist (Irish and/or European history) but deadline only two weeks away! #skystorians

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

they assume that people are not capable of independent thought and that academia is a body that determines which opinions are permissable for them

so they assume that if they get rid of all academic critical analysis there will be no critical analysis anywhere

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah that's definitely part of it I think.

Though there's a big class dimension as well, with private education staying much closer to these models that state schools.

Especially boarding schools. It's basically the whole point of them. Isolation and alienation.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 9h

Oh wait, it turns out Bragg’s solidarity is meant for his peers 🙃

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

I told him my wife would also avoid stickers or flags and he said "Then the stickers will send a message to white English people who are appalled by the way the flags make your wife feel that they are not alone in opposing the racists". An absolutely jaw dropping response, where to even start?!

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

the far right are very aware of and actively celebrate the history of violence, especially the crusades

trying to whitewash that just encourages them

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

this is a deeply traditional approach across 'western civilisation'

in many ways it is fundamental to Enlightenment philosophy

the belief that human nature is inherently sinful and undeserving and must be overcome in order to be considered a valid person

R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 1d

"Haarer viewed children, especially babies, as nuisances whose wills needed to be broken."

Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today

The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs—the better to raise hardened soldiers and followers. Attachment researchers say that the harmful effects of that teaching...

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