So far as I am aware the majority of the homeschooling and religious private school industry really didn’t pop up until after the federal government mandated racially integrated schools. Until that point it appears most Americans didn’t have an issue with public schooling for their children. What a strange coincidence.
A mom enters our booth in the exhibitor hall in Missouri. “OK, my daughter loves Harriet Tubman. Tell me what you got!” she says.
I explain our product, how we use historical women to teach girls about their worth and potential. The mother says: “But is it woke? I mean, I don’t want to teach my daughter about woke.”
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“What do you mean, ‘woke’?” I ask.
She opens her mouth. Half-words and phrases stumble and tumble around. A few talking points from news sources fall out. Finally, she sighs. “I don’t know. Just tell me again what you write.”
Riiiiight.
It's all feelings. Pavlovian training. "Woke" evokes feelings of fear and outrage. There's no cognition behind it just simple instinct.
PS: when having to decompress and remind themselves why they go to these right wing home schooling conventions "B" says:
“Your thing is changing the conversation,” he says. “Changing the conversation on beauty culture. Changing the conversation on how we raise empowered girls. How about we change the conversation about feminism at these events?”
That's a hell of a good reason. Ok sure they make money too but doesn't sound like that's the only motivation and maybe not even the primary one.
They say they're throwing up before the convention (presumably due to the dread of dealing with these infuriating nutjobs).
If they're that stressed by it all and still Go through with it, exposing small minded people to more egalitarian ideas, then kudos to them. I'm not sure if I could deal with this kind of thing on a regular basis.
8 billion people on the planet, and yet somehow if feels like if we were to get rid of about... 10k specific people, most of our problems would suddenly be so easy to solve.
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Moloch is introduced as the answer to a question – C. S. Lewis’ question in Hierarchy Of Philosophers – what does it? Earth could be fair, and all men glad and wise. Instead we have prisons, smokestacks, asylums. What sphinx of cement and aluminum breaks open their skulls and eats up their imagination?
And Ginsberg answers: Moloch does it.
There’s a passage in the Principia Discordia where Malaclypse complains to the Goddess about the evils of human society. “Everyone is hurting each other, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.”
The Goddess answers: “What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?”
The implicit question is – if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.
I am weirdly conflicted on this, On one hand, massive piracy invasion, on the other hand, cars are probably doing this anyways and this seems like a no-brainer.
well not that I will ever get a smart car to begin with
Who owns the camera? The owner or Tesla? Tesla hypothetically knows that the data should exist so can potentially subpoena it in any cases where it might help them. Hopefully Tesla owners haven't been signing user agreements that grants Tesla access to the data already.
According to a translation by Mark Weeden, an associate professor of ancient Middle Eastern languages at University College London, the first six lines of cuneiform text on the tablet say, in the Hittite language, that "four cities, including the capital, Hattusa, are in disaster," while the remaining 64 lines are a prayer in the Hurrian language asking for victory.
The Hittites used the Hurrian language for religious ceremonies, Matsumura told Live Science, and it appears that the tablet is a record of a sacred ritual performed by the Hittite king.
"The find of the Hurrian tablet means that the religious ritual at Büklükale was performed by the Hittite king," he said in an email. "It indicates that, at the least, the Hittite king came to Büklükale … and performed the ritual."
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