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If I could do it again, I would join advocacy groups like "Young Moderates of America" or "Students for an Unbiased Center-Left Media" or "Volunteer Pacifists Making Delicious Sandwiches for the Underfortunate With Vegetarian Options But Plenty of Meat Too if That's What Floats Your Boat". That way I could put all my extracurricular, community, and direct action involvement on my resumee.
I swear to god my whole body hurts in the middle of the night. I have carpal tunnel, sciatica, and a strained shoulder blade tendon, and all of these things get worse when I’m lying down ughhhh.
I have a lot of friends who struggle with their parents, who love them but find their politics and social views difficult to navigate. Often it’s deeply religious parents who have so much love and so many good intentions genuinely good core values but such fucked up views...
and i want to tell these people - you don’t know how lucky you have it. Because i can’t say the same about my family. Their core values are success, wealth, and status. And maybe not all their views are as fucked up as your religious parents, but there is nothing to redeem those views that are fucked up. No good intentions. Little love.
omg college is about crying omg college is about ramen omg college is so difficult omg college is so much responsibility omg college is about always being busy and never sleeping omg college is about making your own appointments omg college will never get you hired omg college is so hard
SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU PRIVILEGED ASSHATS YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT DIFFICULTY EVEN IS TRY NOT GOING TO COLLEGE
Bees do say this to you.
So here is one of my more unpopular opinions but here it goes...
I get tired of insistence on distinguishing between medication and therapy in radical mental health. There is very little difference between treatment with medication and treatment with therapy. There is no “meds bad therapy good”. Here are some things people say about medication - and why these are true of therapy as well.
Hey mom, I need to tell you something. I hitchhicked here. Don't be mad, it's safe. Safer then college. I'd probably be shot. There were three college shootings since I hitched out.
When babies babble in baby talk they’re trying to repeat what they hear in an attempt to learn how to communicate better with their own species so if you want your baby to talk sooner speak in full regular [insert language here] not babbles and coos. Dogs, on the other hand, will never understand English so babble to them all you want they will love it and wiggle around when you do
Linguist here!
Turns out baby talk / “parentese” is actually substantially helpful in first language acquisition, not just in oral language, but in signed languages.
Parentese involves using a sing-song tone, excessive syllable repetition, and exaggerated distinction between each individual word, and the consonants and vowels within those words… all factors which help an infant develop the precursors to speech.
Have you ever listened to speakers of a foreign language, talking at their normal rate of speech? Notice how you can’t really even tell where the words begin and end, since they all string together so densely? That’s what a toddler is dealing with, all the time, except when exposed to parentese. Parentese substantially improves the speed of language acquisition, compared to exclusively talking at an ordinary rate of speech, in one’s usual pitches and tones.
There is some benefit in restricting your parentese to common English words, and avoiding words that are 100% nonsense vocabulary, like “ickle” instead of “little,” or “num-num,” etc., but this benefit largely won’t occur until the kid has already separated out consonants from vowels, and figured out how to discern syllable breaks and word breaks… and the benefit in this instance is ONLY in their receptive vocabulary - specifically, their ability to absorb more words being said to or near them - and it doesn’t assist their productive vocabulary. Using nonsense words DOES help the productive vocabulary and the development of grammar, because they involve sounds that the child can easily reproduce after hearing them (and which might have actually been said by the child first, in an attempt to pronounce a harder word), making it more likely that the child will confidently use these simplified words in early efforts to string sentences together.
Psycholinguists and language acquisition experts generally advise to just baby talk in the way that feels most natural to you, with the munchkins in your life. Un-forced parentese scales naturally with the child’s own proficiency at communicating, so by the time you start including more elaborate vocabulary, the kid has probably already learned enough that they’ll understand the words you’re introducing, and will be able to replicate the same sounds. Parentese is universal to every culture and every living language; this is largely because it works.
TL;DR - Baby talk actually helps language acquisition substantially.
I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.
his name is Ibn Khaldun
same thing with the scientific method!!! i was taught in school that it was invented by roger bacon , but Around 250 years before Roger Bacon expounded on the need for experimental confirmation of his findings, an Arab Muslim scientist scientist named Ibn al-Haytham was saying the exact same thing.
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched the Suyama Project to gather and make available online evidence of resistance among Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II.
With help from elderly survivors of the World War II internment camps, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched the Suyama Project to gather and make available online evidence of resistance among Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to camps by the federal government, shattering the myth of the “quiet Americans” who silently accepted their fate without question.
For nearly a year, researchers at the center have been finding, scanning and then returning to their owners letters, diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, artwork and unpublished manuscripts to bring to light stories of resistance that the War Relocation Authority (WRA) — the civilian agency created by the U.S. government to manage the internment camps where 120,000 were imprisoned — and others tried to minimize or suppress at the time, say faculty leaders of the project. (The Asian American Studies Center believes it’s not accurate to use the term “internment camps” and prefers “U.S. concentration camps.” See related sidebar about the ongoing debate over terminology.)
Propagated by the WRA, the government and the Japanese American Citizens League during World War II, the myth of the complacent captives has been embedded in newspaper stories, books, movies and many history books, said Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, the George and Sakaya Aratani Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA and one of five UCLA professors who serve as advisors to the Suyama Project.
Martha NakagawaCurrently a national monument under the National Park Service, Camp Tule Lake became a high-security segregation center in 1943 and was the largest and most conflict-ridden of the 10 camps.
“It wasn’t a matter of people being ‘quiet;’ rather, it had to do with people being intimidated, with being silenced. We’ve had some moving testimony in this regard,” Hirabayashi said.
Among those whose histories are featured on the Suyama website are conscientious objectors, draft resisters, renunciants (those citizens who, under pressure, renounced their U.S. citizenships) and the No-Nos — those who were branded as disloyal and sent to prison for answering “no” to two controversial, poorly worded questions on a loyalty questionnaire issued by the U.S. Army.
“Elements within the Japanese American community also tried to erase these stories in the hope that mainstream Americans would more readily accept Japanese Americans as patriotic and loyal,” Hirabayashi explained. “It took the contemporary redress movement and the eventual passage of the Civil Liberties Act to open people up to the many stories of resistance” that were once considered taboo to talk about.
Even after the war, these acts of resistance were mere background noise to the postwar narrative about Japanese Americans who served courageously in the military, including members of the celebrated 442nd Regimental Combat Team that was made up almost entirely of Japanese American soldiers. Ironically, 1,500 of them were drafted directly from the internment camps.
“Of course, focusing on the veterans and the sacrifices they made was important,” said David Yoo, professor and director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. “But scholars now see that the experiences of Japanese Americans during World War ll were more diverse than that, and that you need to think about the community as a whole, and not just one segment of it.”
► Related:
Debate over words to describe Japanese American incarceration lingers
In one sense, Yoo said, those who resisted were demonstrating a form of loyalty to America. “It’s not always popular to resist, but in many ways it’s also exercising a very important part of what it means to be an American.”
The only university-based archive focused on both small- and large-scale acts of resistance, the project is being funded by an endowment established by an anonymous donor and is named after Dr. Eji Suyama, a physician and distinguished veteran of the 442nd. Suyama understood that those who resisted the government’s efforts to imprison them were also courageous. So after the war, he became one of the few voices in the community to advocate for them in numerous letters to newspapers, Yoo said.
Among those dissidents were the men of Block 42 at the Tule Lake camp. They were arrested by camp administrators and sent to prison after they refused to answer a loyalty questionnaire whose wording and title were confusing to them, according to the website. The War Department and the FBI later informed Tule Lake administrators that refusing to answer the loyalty questionnaire was neither a violation of the Selective Service Act nor the Espionage Act and did not carry a $10,000 fine and/or 20 years in jail, as camp administrators had threatened. But this information did not become public until decades later.
There were riots, sit-down strikes, work stoppages and other episodes of unrest at the camps, much of it to protest deplorable living conditions there. “The strikes early on in Poston and Tule Lake were major acts of resistance,” Hirabayashi said. “The military was called in to restore order, and people were shot.”
Researchers are also documenting the actions of “everyday people who were doing things on the sly to let the WRA personnel know that they weren’t being fooled,” Hirabayashi said. In Poston, for example, someone chalked the words “Jap Prison” on the tar paper wall of the camp schoolhouse. Under cover of darkness, people “borrowed” wood from the camps’ main lumber supplies to build makeshift furniture, another act of everyday resistance.
Among the more prominent of the “boat rockers,” as dissidents were labeled by Japanese American civic leaders, was Gordon Hirabayashi, professor Hirabayashi’s uncle, who called the incarceration of American citizens of Japanese descent discriminatory and unconstitutional. The son of Japanese immigrants, he was a 24-year-old senior at the University of Washington when the government ordered him and his family to board a bus bound for a camp.
When Gordon Hirabayashi protested, he was convicted and imprisoned. After a 40-year crusade to clear his name, he won a landmark court case against the U.S. government. His efforts as a civil rights advocate helped convince Congress to pass legislation in 1988 apologizing for the government’s actions and paying more than $1 billion in reparations to former internees. In 2012, President Obama awarded Gordon Hirabayashi the Presidential Medal of Freedom three months after his death.
To inform the Japanese American community about the project, collect data and provide a forum for resisters to talk about their experiences — many in public for the first time — the Asian American Studies Center has held a few community forums. Since many of the survivors are elderly, the time to gather their stories and eyewitness accounts is now, Yoo said.
So far, the project has been welcomed by Japanese Americans whom the center has approached, Yoo said. In the coming academic year, outreach events are being planned for Seattle and other locations.
At one presentation, an elderly survivor of the Poston camp, accompanied by his daughter, gave an emotionally charged account of his own acts of resistance to what was going on at the camp.
“Someone asked [his daughter] if she had ever heard her father talk about his deep objections to the abuse that the WRA authorities meted out in Poston,” Hirabayashi recalled. “Tears started rolling down her face as she said, ‘No, I’ve never heard any of this before.’
“I learn something at every forum I go to,” the scholar said.
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I love how white liberals talk about racial tolerance and police brutality and in the same breath assert that gun control makes our communities safer when 80% of those arrested under unlicensed firearm possession laws are black men who have never discharged the weapon but keep it to protect their families because police do not respond to crimes in their neighborhoods
Whose “communities” are safer? Oh okay white white communities. White communities who are rarely subject to the massive risk of inviting more violence upon calling the cops.
Hey herpblr! I had a herpes scare and finally convinced a doctor to do a type-specific blood test. I've been asking for years and they've kept denying me it for years because they "didn't want me to panic" or whatever. I've even had gynos and pcps tell me that "there's no blood test for herpes". Strange how standard of care is to keep people in the dark? I tested positive for HSV 1 antibodies, not particularly surprising, I've probably had it since I was a kid. The doctor says "it's common and nothing to worry about" but I'm not entirely convinced. I've been grappling with the morality of disclosure. To be perfectly honest, I don't think disclosure is morally obligatory, especially since I don't think I've had a coldsore in at least half a decade. On the other hand, I want to foster a world in which safer sex, open communication, and informed consent are the norm. I'm hoping your wonderful online community can have this discussion with me, so hmu.
I'm couchsurfing with these (amazing) friends of friends and I left my phone charger at their place, so when I got back, my phone was dead and they weren't home. So I went down the block knocking on doors, it was like trick-o-treating for phone chargers. Finally I found someone who let me in. He should have tipped me off right away when he asked if it was a "micro USB" (who says that, except for me? everyone else says "android charger"). Sure enough, he was a total nerd. Watching Bleach with a piece on his coffee table, plus he had a (very friendly and soft and adorable awww) rabbit. Despite it being super awkward, we actually had good conversation. It was like the start of a rom-com.
Skylar, can you give me some life advice?
Hi annaloli.
One night cant just take away new words thought youd them off.
