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Hello, I'm Stephanie. I REBLOG a lot of things. Any original things I post are usually annoying complaints. I love bunnies, Neopets, Pokemon games, League of Legends, & Maplestory (Windia). I also have an obsession with the Lord of the Rings movies and with The Hobbit. I have a bunny named Samwise.
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GOD people always attack viet nail salon workers for speaking in viet because apparently if they’re not speaking english they must be talking shit!!! even though most of these nail salon workers are immigrants that barely speak english but are working 7 days a week to support their families!! and then when they do speak english people mock them for not being 100% fluent lmao. nail salon workers are always disrespected and if they’re talking shit about you (even though they’re probably not) you deserve it.

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Brain teasers for egalitarians/equalists.

Say I’m 32 years old and you’re 22 years old.

In how many years will we be the same age?

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Silly question, right? If you define aging as a process that stops at death, the only way we’ll ever be the same age is if I die first. If you don’t, then we’ll never be the same age. Every time you age a year, I also age a year. Since our ages increase at the same rate, you will never catch up to my head start. We have achieved a total equality of aging, but that does not change the permanent inequality of our age.

Okay, say I have a million dollars and you’re completely broke. If we both get a dollar a day, how long will it take you to catch up with me?

Now, this one’s even sillier, because if you have no other resources, your dollar a day is going to be eaten up by basic living expenses that it doesn’t quite meet, and I have an excess of money that can be spent on money-making opportunities that pay off far better than an additional $365 a year. I could literally burn the dollar I’m getting as part of our Totally Equal Income and still make more money in a year than you do just by sticking my money in the bank. 

But still: both of us getting a dollar a day is totally equal, right? It means we’re being treated exactly the same.

And now, final problem:

If we have a world that contains structural inequalities, systemic imbalances, disproportionate danger faced by some, and unequal access to resources and opportunities, is “treating everyone the same” really going to result in equality?

Show your work.

I may have reblogged this already but I don’t care it’s important.

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I use trigger warnings in the classroom as a way of preparing students who may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder while also easing the entire class into a discussion of the material. The thinking behind the idea that trigger warnings are a form of censorship is fundamentally illogical: those who offer warnings, at our professional discretion, about potentially triggering material are doing so precisely because we’re about to teach it! If we used trigger warnings to say, effectively, “don’t read this, it’s scary,” then there’d be no need to warn in the first place; we’d just leave the material off the syllabus. It’s true that giving a warning runs the risk of students avoiding or disengaging with the material out of fear of being triggered (in my three years of teaching, students have come to office hours to discuss sensitive material, but not one has left class or failed to turn in an assignment because of a trigger warning). If a student disengages, however, a professor still can (and should) follow up in a couple of ways. One is to have a private conversation with the student about the material, away from the pressures of the classroom; another is to take the student’s response as an occasion to check in with the student and make sure they have access to campus mental health resources. Few of the media voices catastrophizing trigger warnings seem to understand that professors’ interactions with students in the classroom and during office hours are some of the most important ways of catching mental health (or time management, or substance abuse) issues in our students that may need further attention. While the purpose of trigger warnings is not to screen for mental health problems, being attuned to how students are reacting to material, and prompting them to react to the hard stuff, can help us catch problems before they become real catastrophes.

The Trigger Warning Myth | The New Republic (via brutereason)

Source: newrepublic.com
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halloween is around the corner and im ready for coc (candy of colour)

Shout out to all my ToToC (trick or treaters of color)

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brutereason

Pretty tired of the term “advocating for yourself,” honestly. Yes, in theory, euphemistically speaking, that’s a very important thing. However, having to repeatedly spend hours of your time begging, pleading, demanding to be given basic courtesies is not “self-advocacy.” It’s begging.

And it’s exhausting.

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It is. When they say “You have to advocate for yourself to get what you need,” I hear, “You have to beg and plead to get what you need.”

Sure sounds different when put that way, eh?

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guabao

BUILD A. SQUID. make your own squid and set. it free. BUILD YOUR. SQUID. FIND YOUR. SQUID { MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM } YOUR SQUID

ive been laughing for 100 years at this omfg

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