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Profit-seeking from education

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*Our national and state policies [about Edtech] are designed to subsidize profit-seeking from education.*

Objection to criticizing racism

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

People who condemned anti-racist gestures by pro sports players cited various details as objectionable, but now those excuses have been stripped away. What those people object to is criticizing racism.

Don't send cops to someone having a mental crisis

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

If asked to send help because someone is having a mental crisis, the last people you should send are cops. When they don't understand, their solution is "shoot".

Stress, including being confronted by armed thugs, can make people with mental disabilities lose their capacity to understand what others are saying to them. In thug-think, that means "resisting arrest, shoot!"

Use of paramilitary forces to suppress protest

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*"One can draw a direct line between the [wrecker's] use of paramilitary forces to suppress protest domestically, and the tendency of security forces [sic] in foreign countries to violently suppress their own citizenry — security forces that for years have been backed, funded, trained, and armed by the United States government."*

Meanwhile, the wrecker threatens to crush protesting Americans who might disbelieve the claim, that he will surely make, to have won the election.

(satire) Peering through windows of wealthier classmates

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

(satire) *… Public Schools encouraged students without internet access Friday to attend remotely by peering through the home windows of wealthier classmates.*

There is an extra level of irony here that the authors are not aware of. Zoom is proprietary malware, and it surveils the users. You can protect yourself by not actually running Zoom or being seen by it in a camera. I have suggested finding a classmate who will record the video presentation, perhaps by pointing another camera at it, and send you the recording as a file. Looking through per window would also do the job, thought it would be less convenient.