#fuck therapy as a capitalist institution and fuck capitalism colonialism
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I got my degree just for the paper so I could work within community that I can support thru having that stamp of approval so that everyone can just do the shit they would be doing anyway.
Therapy the way the system intends it is absolutely inhumane. Like, let me meet you for 60 minutes and then literally never follow up on any other aspect of your life.
#I interviewed at a few places but tbh the fact that the more training you have the less freedom you have is bonkers to me#like we can’t give gifts to ppl or whatever fuck that people need to eat I’m gonna buy them BK#that’s just the way it is#or rides like if I were in a less specialized position I could give people rides but I’m not supposed to as a licensed therapist#LMAO its like they think we have better things to do w our time??? idk man!!! people need to get places I’m gonna take them there idk what#what to tell you!!!#soo grateful to have an organization backing & supporting me who gets it#and also does those things like my coworker straight up adopted her client bc of her being stuck w a terribly abusive caregiver & the courts#doing nothing. LMAO the boards would have a FIT#but it’s all literally just gatekeeping people from supporting their community the way they’re meant to & the way communities have been#since time immemorial thousands and thousands of years#fuck therapy as a capitalist institution and fuck capitalism colonialism#ALSO THO PSYCH DEGREES AND COUNSELING/THERAPY DEGREES ARE DIFFERENT#and psych programs draw in wayyyyyy#way more fucking crazy people fetishists and abusers like there’s no comparison😣#so if ur interested in psychology or therapy please get a counseling degree not one in psychology 🙏#signed someone with both#but obviously the one in the PNW was going to be more trauma informed and full of genuinely caring people LMAO
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You know the American history courses I took always stopped around the 80s
Only AP went further, and it never focused too much on the 90s or the 00s even though you could very well do that.
And have it to be more relevant than whatever the fuckboys were touting in the 1700s.
I just think that that’s interesting.
America was doing all manners of nonsense in the periods you’re not taught about.
I mean maybe it’s different in other American high schools.
But I personally think that American history should focus more on the gulf war.
Maybe on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
African SAPs.
The colonialist policies of the IMF and World Bank.
Seriously why the fuck do we bother so much with the Founding Fathers and all their blathering about freedom while black women waited on their children?
Americans should be learning about how their capitalist system has fucked over every country they’ve written off as backwards.
Like I have no idea how us history is taught in other schools.
But I get the feeling that America would rather focus on the “distant” past.
America doesn’t wanna talk about the war on terror or Iran contra or the AIDS epidemic or the six day war and why we and Britain fucked up an entire region after world war 2.
Or how we started terrorist groups and put military dictatorships in place to protect our companies and their profits.
Or how the institutions that we essentially control are keeping those in poverty in poverty.
Seriously.
Enough with James Madison, who cares about human rights when your own government ignores the blatant human rights violations of a country that we’re allies with?
Come on.
American history can start with the damn Boston tea “massacre” if it wants, but why don’t we linger some more on Afghanistan?
We were involved.
We watched while our shock therapy programs fucked up Yugoslavia.
We watched while capitalism put nationalism in power and stirred ethnic violence.
And guess what?
American history is rooted in colonialism.
Which had a hand in the Rwandan genocide.
Which was ignored and debated in the UN, controlled monetarily by yours truly.
So please for the love of god.
Talk about the War of 1812 for like a day.
Go over American intervention in places it doesn’t belong for the rest of the year.
Go over slavery, yes, go in depth about reconstruction and segregation. These are important parts of American history.
But so is the era America decided its companies needed steady markets from every portion of the world so they could make billions instead of millions and decided to fuck everyone else over in the process.
#seriously Arab spring?#that was a protect against neoliberal policies#but does anyone talk about it#no they talk about how facebook is changing the world#Facebook which is a western invention that we choose to believe is enlightening those dirty brown people in the east#yeah ok you prick let's pretend Arab spring was about you#fuck you facebook was simply a means#if you ignored why they were protesting in favor of what you want to believe#then you're following the imperialists who walked before you#American history#history
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