It is genuinely concerning how many popular media outlets will characterize left-wing protests as inherently bad because they pose a threat to the ruling class, and therefore us.
People believe that stuff. They see authority as always in the right, whether or not they want to admit it: Police attacking protesters is completely expected, but protesters fighting back is violence.
Yet history shows us that disrupting order is the most effective method of pushing change.
Child labor didn’t end in the US because factory owners thought, “hey, this is actually bad”. They were met with backlash from unions and labor movements. Same with food contamination and dangerous working conditions.
We credit the ruling class for positive change when they’ve been holding it back for self benefit all along.
You are not supporting freedom for defending their position, and of course reactionary movements are the first to say resistance should be stopped by government forces.
the ruling class has never been on the good side of history because it actively resists change.
As an educator, I hate the bell curve system, but I really hate teachers who say, “You won’t get an A in my class.” It’s not just because it causes students to begin the semester with a feeling that they will fail the course: it’s because it is the teacher admitting to their own failure to teach.
We are literally paid to teach a full curriculum. “I don’t give out A’s” to me translates to “I cannot 100% do my job.” There is no reason a good teacher can’t give you an 80-100% understanding of what is in the course. It’s our job to make sure you understand as much as we can.
A class average of 50 is isn’t a statement of how hard the material is. It’s a statement that the teacher cannot complete 50% of their job.
They think it means their class is challenging and apparently giving out As makes them “too easy,” like the point of a teaching class is supposed to be so hard that no student can fully understand it or complete it.
