#schools in other countries

[feetonthegroundtx]

Breaking Battle in class 💗

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

[climbdraws]

took my mom all of 2 weeks to go from "stop baking so much you're making me fat" to "why didn't you make anything today 🥺🥺 wheres the sweet treats"

[mokeonn]

"oh I dont know a lot about other countries because the american school system was so bad haha." You know you can fix that, right? You can change that. With the device you are reading this post on. You know that, right?

[handweavers]

Cab you elaborate a little on that post about artists of color not having a good understanding of materialism? Like, do you mean that they are unknowingly perpetuating capitalism by being materialistic or something else?????

( This is a genuine question because I misunderstand long posts easily, sorry if it sounds rude ).

when i say 'materialism' i'm referring to dialectical materialism, the marxist theory that political and historical events result from the conflict of social forces - people's access to material needs like shelter, food, healthcare, etc. and their relationship to the means of production. these events can be interpreted as a series of contradictions and their solutions. it is the scientific method for understanding politics/economics and history, and the basis of marxist analysis and of marxism leninism as a framework.

i'm saying that many artists of colour in the west speak a lot about capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, war, etc. from a vaguely 'leftist' but ultimately still liberal perspective, and thus they are not actually challenging anything with their work. they will talk about anything But class, and fall easily for bourgeois politics as long as it's concealed in social justice or "leftist" or antiracist sounding language

and it's because they won't engage directly with marxism leninism, they won't engage with learning materialist analysis, and having this understanding would prevent them from falling for these attempts and allow them to do work that actually has some kind of meaningful impact on these systems they claim to be against. so they are trying to talk and write and make art and organize about capitalism and colonialism without understanding how these things actually function in a literal, material sense...

simply existing as nonwhite people in the west doesn't inherently teach us these things, otherwise all people of colour in the west would be communists. we have to actually do the reading and be open to another framework of understanding the world, to having our worldviews shifted. but i think some people don't want to do that because of their relative class position. it makes them uncomfortable, or they don't want to admit that they benefit from imperialism in some ways. they can't - or won't - decouple an awareness of their class position from morality or their personal feelings.

without a marxist framework for understanding what capitalism is and how it functions, whatever work they claim to be trying to do to challenge capitalism or colonialism or whatever At Best doesn't do anything, and At Worst continues to serve bourgeois interests. the confusion between colonialism and imperialism in particular is easily exploited, so that with the language of anti racism and decolonization people end up agreeing with and promoting US/NATO foreign policy on imperialized nations - these buzzwords can sound pretty good if you don't know better. all this talk about decolonizing our minds and art practices and being anti capitalists but no one can actually explain what capitalism is or how colonialism works or the material role of racism under capitalism, nor do they want to talk about their own relationship to capital, so the talk is just empty lol. all these artists trying to figure out "alternative, embodied ways of thinking and being" and it's all just more liberalism

[runawaymarbles]

There's a lot to be said about flaws in the US education system but I think some of you just weren't paying attention in class

[sophsun1]

Queer As Folk – 1.16: French Fried

[nadiajustbe]

Fan fact: Howl's Moving Castle book is an official part of the Ukrainian school curriculum of foreign literature! We study it in the seventh grade (from 11 or 12, depending on the year you started school), in the section of modern literature, with excerpts from the novel.

We were recommended to read the full text, so that's what I did, at the age about 13, still probably my fav school reads of all time. So say thanks to Ukrainian curriculum, it probably had made a bunch of HMC fans!

[bad-tf-fic-ideas]

(194) We've all met the "a character died and was reincarnated as a character from their fandom!" variant of self/oc insert story, but today I present to you: Megatron and his high command die and all of them are reincarnated as 17 year old human highschool students.

The bodies are weak, the classes vary between impossible and child's play, the social politics are complex, truancy is punishable by the authoritarian powers that be, and this big school dance thing that's seemingly occupying everyone's attention is next month.

But Megatron is up to the challenge. He's millions of years old, he's well-studied in the arts of war, and he's destroyed whole city-states with fewer resources than this...

[thereadingmoon]

he’s asking if you’re a communist, Robin.

[egberts]

I'm just gonna start blocking people who send me essay length asks trying to argue about stupid shit because their personal experience was different

[bittsandpieces]

bitts you GOTTA say more about forcefemming your ex, what????

idk she was out as non binary when we were together and was super obviously sad about not being more feminine, so I just... encouraged her... showed her how to do makeup... let her wear my skirts.... started calling her a good girl in bed

like if she had actually been uncomfortable with any of it I would've stopped, obviously, but she just needed someone to push her a little bit. and now she's out as a woman to her whole family and everything

[cree-n-jewish-thoughts]

Pretty sure I know what genocide is better than you - me a half native half (maternal) Jew to any "pro-paley" that tries to pull that card. Bitch your house is on a burial ground for an ancient tribe your ancestors killed for the land. Stop trying to pull the card, you are literally responsible at this point in the game. You are still taking land and lives in your own first world countries, but k. Cool.

You don't even know your own country's history so don't even try to learn another's until you know your own inside and out.

K, thanks.

[thistransient]

recent sights

[museenkuss]

I unfortunately can't find the poll about locaring the US-States, but it inspired me to do a poll about locating countries in the EU. We never had to learn the US states (obviously, I guess), but we did have to learn the countries at some point, so I'm really curious.

Take this Quiz to test how fast/correctly you can locate countries in the EU.

disclaimer: this is a first attempt test with no prep, so if you do poorly, don't feel bad. I find this site is a very helpful tool when it comes to learning where countries in general (or US states) are located, and if you're interested in it, you'll get better in no time! I promise! :) Knowing where certain countries are located makes it a lot easier to understand historical events, cultural influences and contemporary politics, which makes it useful and fun. This isn't a marker for intelligence and this poll isn't intended to be condescending or mean-spirited.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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