#student oppression

[thebellekeys]

And a reminder that higher education cannot be considered truly democratised if students can still be doomed to poverty with multiple or advanced arts and Humanities degrees...

[slitheringghost]

lily: none of my friends can understand why i even talk to you! i’ve been making excuses for you for years—you and your precious little death eater friends!

lily: but you call everyone of my birth a mudblood, severus

snape fans: everyone at hogwarts (and not just the rich guys) hates snape because he’s a poor ugly weirdo! “weirdos” and ugly people are additional oppressed classes in britain! #british class system #class analysis

[aydintariq]

The First Amendment: Free Speech

The fact that an administration can pinpoint a student, a student who is a legal citizen of this country ineligible for deportation, and attempt to deport him simply based on his difference of opinion, should terrify all Americans, regardless of party.

The deportation of Mahmoud Khalil is illegal and unconstitutional. We must collectively understand that it isn't about deporting an undocumented immigrant, or an ICE crackdown. It is the attempted REVOKING of legal citizenship. If they can do this to one person, they can do this to all of us, simply based off of an expression of free speech.

Mahmoud is missing. ICE didn't seem to know his paperwork, and the location where his wife, an American citizen, was told he was, does not know where he is. He was last detained by ICE and American law enforcement.

The U.S Government has detained and dissapeared a United States citizen and all of us, politicians alike, are helpless to do anything about it.

Call your reps. Demand answers. If you can, volunteer, donate to the ACLU. Message me for opportunities to get involved. We must stand together.

[haedshct]

bedman with no bed man in: the worst school u could attend in the 70s. i was on a utena tangent you see,

[mouchee23gamma]

USA students with disabilities and disorders: LISTEN UP!

In the USA, a huge issue has gone unnoticed by our government, despite the cries of my people. Since the creation and implementation of IEPs and 504s for students with disorders and disabilities in school systems, this problem has plagued school systems on a national scale.

‘What is this problem?’ Is what you may ask. Well, I shall tell you from my perspective (and other students) as a female who has autism, ADHD, and GAD.

The problem is that school systems are allowing staff to discriminate and ignore students with IEPs and 504s. When I was in 9th grade, I had an English teacher who wouldn’t follow my IEP, which is illegal to do. Even with my case manager and parents communicating to him that he had to follow my IEP, he wouldn’t listen and lied about his actions. My case manager reported him to the higher ups of the school and her supervisor, but they didn’t even reach out to him, nor did they ever get back to us.

I was warned by many students with IEPs about this English teacher, as they also experienced the same exact situation where he refused to follow their IEPs. He was (and likely still is) the only option for 9th grade English, besides the English class for those who may have things like dyslexia or those who struggle with English in general.

I could’ve taken him to court, unfortunately though, I only found that out after I moved schools.

The next year, in my new school, my new case manager ignored my concerns and refused to talk about making a few changes to my IEP. She brushed me off by saying that I would be fine.

I wasn’t fine.

I ended up switching to online school, where I would be at home, yet still receiving the proper education through online meetings and programs.

Those of us who are students with IEPs and disabilities or disorders, especially under the age of 18, are oppressed and our cries for help are ignored.

We are SUFFERING. IEPs are NOT a privilege, they are a NECESSITY for those of us who have it!

My best friend who also has an IEP keeps me updated on the happenings of the school I went to (the one with the English teacher mentioned in the first paragraph) about how those of us in special education or/and have IEPs are being treated.

I have researched and read of so many incidents and situations like mine.

There is a HORRIFYING amount of mistreatment of my community, my people, with disabilities, disorders, and IEPs among schools across the nation.

How could schools claim to treat everyone fairly and that consequences for discrimination will ensue, when the teachers are the ones who discriminate more than most of the students and get away with it?

We need to change, and we need to revolt against schools who let staff get away with discrimination of those of us with disabilities, disorders, and IEPs!

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED! WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT TO EDUCATION!

To my dear readers, please share this post across social media platforms to spread the support we so desperately need. Please share this among family and friends, coworkers, and even teachers and school staff.

[lord-squiggletits]

Pharma's place in a Functionist society (headcanon)

So I've talked in some previous posts about all the reasons that Pharma isn't a functionist because canon never showed him espousing functionist ideals + he's actually in a place to be a victim of functionism. And I've been working on a Pharma-centric oneshot that made me put into words the best metaphor I can think of for Pharma's relationship with Functionism:

He doesn't support Functionism, but is simultaneously a beneficiary of it and also marginalized by it, because his position of being forged both a doctor and a jet basically turns him into a "token minority" of sorts.

I know that sounds kind of silly or maybe like a clumsy political allegory, but hear me out. There are a couple facts about Pharma and the circumstances of his forging that put him at the crossroads between privilege and marginalization within Functionism:

Tyrest says that Pharma was "famous for being forged." Not famous for being a forged medic-- otherwise surely Ratchet would be just as noteworthy-- but famous for being FORGED. But also, note that this is an opinion that SOCIETY had about Pharma, not something that Pharma espouses about himself. (For the sake of an example, Pharma isn't Starscream, who has an explicit, deep-seated need for others' love and approval. Pharma himself doesn't express any opinions on his own popularity or convey that fame/adoration is something he wants.)

Functionism on Cybertron held that if someone was born with a certain alt-mode, they can/should only have certain jobs. For people born with flight alt-modes, those people were almost always regulated to military or transportation/courier jobs

SIMULTANEOUSLY, Pharma was forged with medic hands, which under a Functionist society were viewed as the peak of medical care and all the best doctors were forged or at least had a "special something" that non-forged hands lacked (according to Ratchet).

So taken in combination, this means that from the moment of Pharma's birth, he straddled a line of Functionism between two different "predestined" paths for him, where he was simultaneously forged to be a doctor and also forged to fly, fitting into BOTH of these categories despite norms of Functionism which say you're one or the other. And I speculate that the reason Pharma is "famous for being forged" is precisely because of those lines he straddles: his very existence is a contradiction, but he was also FORGED that way. The same creed that dictated the two different functions of "hands" and "alt-mode" also says that Pharma should be what he was born to be. What he was born to be was a forged medic jet.

In my opinion, I think that being "famous for being forged" is sort of like a token-minority situation for Pharma, where perhaps Pharma was seen as a curiosity or even something exotic, not just as a person. Maybe because he was a jet and people assumed jets were only soldiers/transportation, a lot of his achievements were put in the light of "Oh, he's a really amazing doctor, for a jet" or "It's crazy that he's a doctor AND a jet at the same time". The attention Pharma received for the unique circumstances of his birth WAS positive, but it would've likely been framed in a bit of a condescending way, as if Pharma is noteworthy and famous not for being a good doctor, but for being a good doctor despite being born a jet.

So I would say that as far as Pharma's personal experience with Functionism, he simultaneously experienced privilege and marginalization. He enjoyed the privileges of being a medic while avoiding the restrictions of being a flight frame. However, a lot of the idolization and attention he received would have also come from a place of tokenizing Pharma: he's "famous for being forged," because in this society he's defying expectations merely for existing as himself. That is to say, Pharma in a Functionist society wasn't treated as remarkable because of who he is as a person and how hard he worked to be a good doctor; he was treated as remarkable for the circumstances of his forging, something he had no control over and can't change, and apparently Pharma being a forged medic jet is such a noteworthy origin that he's "famous" for it.

The above paragraph is purely headcanon, of course, but I like to imagine that part of Pharma's reason for having a big ego isn't out of simple vanity or insecurity, but because of a sort of "gifted student" syndrome, in a sense. From the moment he was forged he was treated as a rarity and an incredible phenomenon, and he would have had to work incredibly hard to be seen as "an incredible doctor" in his own right rather than just "that forged medic jet." Maybe, as a jet, he also had something to prove; he had to show to a Functionist society that being a jet doesn't make him an inferior doctor and that his alt-mode has nothing to do with his skills at his profession.

That is to say, I don't think Pharma would have been openly anti-Functionist, or had many opinions about it at all. I actually lean towards the interpretation that Pharma basically saw himself as getting lucky with the way he was forged and being content with the fact that he'd managed to carve out a reputation for himself as being incredibly skilled. However, Pharma not getting involved politically in Functionism doesn't change the fact that he WOULD have had a very complicated relationship with Functionism, in that alt-mode discrimination would have had an effect on him even though he was in the scientific/medical class and supposedly privileged.

[sar3nka]

You'd think after a rat dies everyone would be mourning or sth. But no my brother is talking about how white people are getting discriminated against and the whole white replacement thoery and how he's feeling oppressed as a white straight man. I'm gonna lose it... don't feel like arguing... dude...

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

THERE IS NOW A FUNDRAISER FOR MAHMOUD KHALIL'S LEGAL DEFENSE!

[breakingmyreverie]

you know, for a group of people that claim to be championing for the rights of marginalised people, the socialist party at my uni don't seem to give a fuck about ace and aro people

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

This is a nightmare given what this man supports.

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇸🇵🇸 🚨

COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION THREATENS PROTESTERS WITH SUSPENSION

The administration of Colombia University has issued a statement in which they demand the student protesters dismantle their occupation encampments under threat of suspension.

According to the statement, students must dismantle their encampments and identify themselves to faculty or face suspension and presumed further arrests.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[academicfever]

Reminder first to myself then to all those who r currently trying to “work hard” ur way out of systemic oppression whether it’s racism or sexism or just pure class hatred… I hold ur hand while I say this, u can’t “work hard” or “be nice” ur way out of this … there is a reason people have been fighting against these for ages … it’s so ingrained in institutions and some society that there ain’t no way other than activism… I know all my stem girlies hate politics as much as I do … but dear it’s always been a fight… and I promise u maybe in the end of our life the system will win … but from our side we must fight… there is no other way to stay afloat…

Let’s not drown in this pile of shit and fight for what’s right and always stand ur ground… against oppression and discrimination… I’ve been facing racism and sexism most of my adult life and only recently I kind of woke up to the raw ugliness of it …so my dear , let’s not give in or give up… let’s never bow our heads

[kimberlyannharts]

I'll be leaving on vacation tomorrow and thus won't be able to read the new issue of Prime until I'm home next week, but if there's anything with Mark and Kaitlin, let me know lol it's not something I want and will absolutely criticize when seriously discussing the books but for now it's at the "I'm invested in the potential drama it could cause" phase

[dullahandyke]

they’ve also got the breadwinner

ill b honest annie (<cuter nickname than nonnie for anons) i just watched the trailer and it dips its toes a little too much into the orientalist tropes for my tastes but ive added it to my watchlist bcos i think it could be analytical enrichment

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[butwhatifidothis]

You call it dangerous rhetoric, but Nabateans are not real. I don't think someone's attitude towards them should be used as an RL morality meter. That's typical anti thinking that equates opinions about fiction to RL opinions and politics. Edelstans do it too, like saying you are conservative or centrist and worse for liking Dimitri. The other problem is, that by calling these opinions about Nabateans Nazi stuff, you effectively water down what the term Nazi really means. Nazis threaten real people, not pixel dragons. It's the same problem with antis calling fictional romance and nsfw with underage characters "grooming" or "child p0r*n". It also waters down the very serious issue of CP featuring actual children. Call it gross, fine. But maybe only call Edelstans or any other Nabatean haters Nazis when they actually threaten RL people instead of fictional dragon people. People vilify and hate on various characters in gruesome ways all the time, but that's not the same as being a Nazi. Please stop watering down this serious issue just because you want to generate outrage at someone for having opinions about fictional characters that anger you.

anyway genocide is bad and people shouldn't try to justify it