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arachnerd-8-legs · 28 days ago

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im getting real sick of 'intelligence'

who decided reading books and writing counted as intelligence? who decided that getting high scores on a strict, unfeeling system meant you were better than everybody? who decided that people should be turned into numbers, tie their worth in society into numbers, to compare people on a scale that ultimately does not matter, so that the people who didn't dump everything to perform for it are berated and the people who did end up with nothing?

who decided not reading or writing was a lack of intelligence? who decided that living differently to them was a sign of lower 'societal worth' than those who conformed?

#r slur #and a big rant #in the following tags #this too is just a tool for oppression #but if you had been crushed in the grips of the education system and left limp in the dirt you knew that already #but it's not only a way for society to weed out the 'retards'. it's more than that #let me tell you something #estonia used to be in tribes around the 1000s-1200s or so #a lot of our old historical records were written by someone else #usually christian invaders and other occupying forces who thought we were barbaric and what have you #because we were pagan (especially with Taarapita) and *we did not have a written language*#according to christian-western ideals this means that our population must be like super dumb #and its 'our job' to enlighten them :)#and they did this with anyone who didn't conform.#intelligence has always been a tool to excuse it #so it feels good #so it feels right #You're 'helping' them. enlightening a primitive race #so that they follow Our standards #it's colonialism all the way down #and it still echoes into the modern day. we still see academia as intelligence while we ignore proficiency in other forms #let's not forget the classism of it either. i live in the CEO of classism #working class people are seen as dumber and are thus treated worse because they didn't dump all of their money/future money into #a societally-approved institution like oxford or something #despite the fact that they rely on working class people to operate #or the fact that their booksmarts don't cover years of knowing how to run a corner store #i suppose the general conclusion i want to convey is that we can all do different things well and using a linear scale is bullshit #(and an oppressive tool lol)#people are good at different things and you have to learn to be ok with that #this applies to anything - trades/ crafts/ booksmarts/ spectrums of neurodivergence/ etc

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