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how?? just how?

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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On the topic of English people being shitheads towards Welsh people - This fucking dude today on AITA

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Keep seeing people ask why European students are not also protesting. Here is a brief list of some examples of students protesting in the countries USAmericans think of when they say "Europe". This doesn't include the student groups that I've seen participating in the regular (sometimes weekly) mass marches in some cities.

UK

Students from the University of Leeds and at Goldsmiths occupied campus buildings (Feb and March 2024)

Students also held a national strike day for Palestine (Feb 2024)

Students from colleges (~16-18 year olds) and universities staged walkouts in four different cities (Nov 2023)

Even children went out to protest (Feb 2024)

Students in London marched in December

SOAS students held a solidarity rally in October

France

Protests at Sciences Po have held several protests since November

At the Sorbonne too in November

These November protests were simultaneously held in universities across the country

And though the French love a good clash with riot police, there have also been campus candlelight vigils and flags put up

Spain

University students went on strike in October

Secondary school students did the same in November

Student organisations participated in a week of Basque-Palestinian solidarity in February (it feels so wrong to put them under this header in this context....)

Germany

Student protests (Feb)

And more (March)

And more (Nov, & this source article is awful btw)

Also an occupation of a campus building (December)

In an environment where pro-Palestinian views can get you into trouble

Italy

Heavy-handed policing in response to protesting secondary school students in Pisa (Feb)

Students interrupting conference in Turin (April)

More protests in Florence (Nov)

Mass protests in various cities in October

And students on hunger strike in Rome

& More!

Sit-ins on campus in Antwerp, Belgium (November)

Students involved in marches in Czechia (October)

Academics demanding Uppsala University (one of the spiritual homes for the academic study of peace and ending conflicts!) respond to the genocide

In sum, if you say "why aren't students in x country protesting too", the answer is they have been, you just only read USAmerican news

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oh, thats zionist propaganda in my knuckles the echidna show

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America needs massive police reform. The police go to a peaceful protest and start arresting people that have done nothing wrong

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Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:

“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”

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On related note, a few years ago, the Entomological Society of America officially discontinued the use of "gypsy moth" and "gyspy ant" as common names for Lymantria dispar and Aphaenogaster araneoides. L. Dispar is now known as the "spongy moth," so named for the appearance of their eggs, but I don't think a new common name has caught on for the ant species yet.

These changes we brought about, in large part, by the advocacy of Romani people in academia. You might not think that bug names are a very serious issue, but I believe that language matters. These species became known as "gypsies" because their attributes were likened to certain stereotypes and negative perceptions of actual Roma, so the continued use of those names reaffirmed those negative associations in the public consciousness. Slurs and pejoratives can never be truly decontexualized.

In my mind, one of the biggest obstacles that Romani people face when we are trying to advocate for ourselves is a lack of recognition as a marginalized group that deserves the necessary consideration. Even for seemingly trivial matters, like bugs or comic book characters, the way that people talk about us-- and talk down to us, when we get involved-- is telling. So, I always think that changes like this are a win, because it means that people are willing to learn and grant us the dignity we deserve. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to effect change in your own field, even arts and science.

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people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

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Over 40 campuses and counting!

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