Panel Redraw, yeah !
All tests should be open book. It’s not like your future boss is going to say, “I need those tax returns finished by noon, but don’t look at any of the financial statements. Do it all from memory.”
Exactly! You should be tested on application of a concept not memory
I’ve told this story before but idc I’m doing it again.
My dad once taught some class at a conference. He gave everyone a worksheet and after watching them flounder for a few minutes on their own he said, “You guys know you can talk to each other and work together, right?” These were industry professionals who suddenly reverted back to that must-not-collaborate mentality when put in a classroom setting.
school fucks us up soo bad
It becomes more and more obvious every year that public school as it exists was designed to prepare people to enter the factory system in the 1930s.
In case anyone didn’t know, the above is literally true. The modern public school system was designed a little over a hundred years ago by captains of industry to train people to do the dehumanizing labor needed on assembly lines.
Human beings crave meaningful work that makes them feel accomplished and resourceful. Humans like to feel like they’re part of a community, and see the results of a job well done. These desires are incompatible with industrial and post-industrial economies, so people have to be brought up in a system that crushes as much of this desire as possible and convinces them that any remaining scrap of yearning for dignified labor is not worth acknowledging or pursuing.
Class periods that aren’t long enough to devote serious thought to a subject; the bells that tell you when it’s time to eat, regardless of when you’re actually hungry; the alienating tedium of standardized testing; these things didn’t develop organically. They were designed by the people who stood to derive the greatest benefit from them.
“The Rise of Standardized Educational Testing in the U.S.: A Bibliographic Overview,” Torin Monahan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1998)
“Standardized Testing: Fair or Not?” Dr. John Poulsen & Kurtis Hewson, University of Lethbridge
Early School Start Times Are Holding Back Teens
Water is wet
Bees have queens.
Switching to geico can save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance
John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt’s name is my name too
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell
The sun is one of the biggest factors as to why we’re alive
We breathe oxygen and produce carbon dioxide
rabbits have ears
when ur mutuals are mutual with each other
pro: squad
con: i saw this post like 18 times today@revscarecrow how much does this applies to you
Yeah…
Remember the times where nazism wasn’t an urgent current issue. Like, a few months ago
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These neo-Nazis have literally chanted “the Jews will not replace us” but the only ppl I see bringing up antisemitism are other Jewish ppl. Like I’m going to need Tumblr as a whole to actually step up and stop acting like Nazis magically started hating us less after World War II. Quit bringing up the alt-right’s violent antisemitism as some kind of after thought.
To the people who say we should not punch Nazis in the face
Philosophizing and discussing principles are all well and good, in a vacuum, but all ethical debate must have a practical purpose.
When we built this country we made a decision that personal freedom was important. There was a philosophical axiom in play, but axioms must be applied. That is what gave us the Supreme Court, the decision about harmful speech, the famous “shouting fire in a crowded theater.”
Speech that invites riot, that harms a person’s reputation with completely false statements, that pursues a person with threats, that causes injury by evoking panic…these have been determined to be the practical limits of the amorphous philosophical freedom.
The practicality must evolve with the world. Fifty years ago…hell, thirty years ago, a man’s capacity to cause harm with racist speech was very small. Only his family and friends caught the brunt of it, but the world has shifted. Now we have televisions, radio, and of course, the multi-headed hydra of the internet.
That tiny sphere of influence, that crowded theater, has gotten far more crowded.
Now a man’s terrible speech can reach millions around the world instantly. It can utterly destroy how our country is seen by the world and other powers that already have difficult relations with us. One man now has the microphone to a concert-sized stereo sound system and is yelling “fire!” To an audience 7 billion people strong.
This modern technology has meant that we must adapt our philosophy, just as we do in connection with cyber bullying, stalking, victimization. We must alter our high ideals so that they become tenable in the real universe. So what is the solution?
How can we inhibit the behavior without the removing from them the rights we all agree we should have?
The answer is consequences. Because the law is slow to move and most men these days have become lustfully entrenched in the notion of anonymity and protected obscurity, they fear no consequences. It falls to the people, the society around them, to hear the things they say and indicate that the words are not allowed because of the detrimental effect one man can have.
That is simply how it must happen until our law can be interpreted to meet the new age.
But a mindful person who understands why the philosophy exists, who embraces the concept of freedom but can apply practicality of themselves knows that murdering a man for what he believes is not his personal right. He comprehends that actions must have consequences and the consequences of murdering a Nazi are the same as murdering someone else. This well-minded and rightly angered citizen refuses to be responsible for a breech of the philosophy. So instead of simply ridding the world of a Nazi and demonstrating that the philosophy of freedom is an unsustainable paradox, this man punches a Nazi in the face to teach him a lesson.
Seems fair. It’s precisely what happened when men only had real soapboxes from which to shout hate speech.
TL;DR In the modern era the audience is far larger and the world uses social media as a metric of how to interpret the USA. Racism and hate speech are no longer hidden things but have been brought to the surface by men who have become too comfortable with the anonymity of the internet - a thing which did not exist in previous centuries. The law is slow to apply itself with the practical adaptation of philosophy. Therefore, consequences fall to those listening. And those listening choose to punch rather than to kill.
Because principles are important.
Confirmed that the driver of the vehical was James Alex Fields Jr, his mother has confirmed he was there for the unite the right rally as an alt right supoorter.
This is imporant. Fascists on twitter and tumblr have been posting fake info, fake names, and more all claimin it was an antifa counterprotestor who was the driver in order to shift the blame.
Charlottesville police have confirmed it was James Alex Fields Jr, and his mother has confirmed he was there as a member or the right unity rally.
