Breast cancer awareness ads in India feature trans women/hijra as spokespeople.
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ouran highschool host club + text posts
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Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning.
Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’ Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself, maybe to head off an argument or bring one to a close. Well, as soon as you walk into this room, it’s no longer true. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”
A bit harsh? Perhaps, but philosophy teachers owe it to our students to teach them how to construct and defend an argument – and to recognize when a belief has become indefensible.
The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse.
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READ THE SECOND PARAGRAPH
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IN TODAY HAVE A SEAT NEWS!!
Elizabeth Lauten, the communications director for a Republican Congressman (Fincher) had this to say about the First Kids on FB. I can’t with this at all
-Pierre
And this is how young black girls get sexualized. They are dressed like teenagers and to her, they look like they’re going to a bar. WHAT THE HELL?
Who wakes up in the morning and thinks to themselves “Today I am going belittle, sexualize, and shame a couple of teenage girls who dress, look, and act like normal teenage girls”
oh i forgot, these little girls don’t get to be human because they’re girls, they’re black, and their father is the president. Silly me.
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do you think like 600 years ago book nerds got real mad when the printing press was invented because filthy casuals could get books without having to copy them out themselves
Actually yes they did
and there were certain ancient Greeks who were angry when writing was invented, because it meant that literature was more accessible to the filthy casual masses
true shit, people
People never change do they
we got taller
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There’s an abundance of bad things happening right now, and it’s hard not to be sucked into that black hole of sadness, so let’s have a puppy party shall we.
Because, let’s face it, dogs never grow up.
ADDED BONUS, PUPS IN MOTION!!!
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unexpected-imperial-inquisition:
here are some excerpts from my thanksgiving lesson. once class just couldn’t let the whole squanto thing go. it was not a particularly productive lesson.
it’s six months from thanksgiving but this post never gets old
is squanto a chinese curse word or somethingApparently it sounds the same as the chinese for “dead bald person”
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Enjoy your day!
holy SHIT bruh do u see this, are u seein this right now. Do u see what Im lookin at
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Listen up non black folk. AND LISTEN UP GOOD.
you DO NOT MAKE MEDIA ABOUT FERGUSON. YOU DO NOT MAKE POSTS. you do not get to get notes for something that isnt affecting you.
black people get to make posts about ferguson. your job? to simply SPREAD those posts. not add onto, or edit these posts. you shut up and let us speak for one fucking second. let us have this. it wont kill you to not speak for us for once in your life.
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