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18 Pictures That Prove Group Projects Are Pure Hell

systlin

This made me nearly bite a pencil in half in enraged memory.

@ THE REST OF MY ANCIENT HISTORY CLASS; Y’ALL ARE WELCOME FOR THAT FUCKIN A THE REST OF YOU DID NO GODDAMN WORK FOR

thebibliosphere

Oh man, so I know everyone hates group projects with ample good reason, but lemme just tell you something that happened to me in my final year of uni. My dad got real sick and was in and out of hospital numerous times, one time with a suspected heart attack. Which meant my mum ended up caring for my dad, and I wound up caring for my disabled brother, on top of working a part time job and going to university full time.

My grades slid dramatically. I was having to appeal nearly all my results with my professors, and was mercifully granted extensions by all but one of them. (Which, if you’re out there Ronald: stub your toe and step on lego for the rest of eternity.) And then our Revolutionary Cultures prof. assigned a group project, and paired us at random with our classmates. And I knew, I knew I was just going to be a dead weight so I went to my new buddy and told them we should go to the profs office and ask for her to be switched to someone else who wasn’t just going to drag them down. And my new best buddy for the rest of the semester looked at me, looked at our assigned project, and very gently started to cry as she told me “I was just about to say the same thing to you,” and then tearfully told me her mum was dying, and the only reason she hadn’t dropped out to take care of her was because her mum wanted to see her graduate. She’d been given six months and we graduated in five. Provided we finished this class. And we were both out of appeals and leniency time.

It’s probably one of my most vivid memories from the whole college experience, just sitting on the floor of the Renaissance Lit corridor hugging someone who until a moment ago had been a relative stranger known only in passing, and trying to tell them it would be okay, we’d get the paper done. And we did. We scraped a C- together between the two of us and we managed to coast over the passing mark for the class and were allowed to graduate with abysmal but passing marks.

And I still think about her all the time. Especially when I wind up in group projects for work, and it feels like no one else is shouldering any of the burden, I make a note to reach out and say “hey, you don’t seem to be engaging with this much, are you okay?”

And a lot of the time it shocks people. They’re not expecting earnest concern for their lack of interest, and you find out things like their kid is sick, their dog just died, they’ve got health issues going on, or sometimes they just don’t know where to begin with the project and didn’t want to tell you that because they were frightened of being judged or perceived as lazy when they’re just overwhelmed.

And I honestly wish things like this were taught in team building exercises, cause that’s what group projects in school are. They’re supposed to be teaching you how to work well with others and achieve a common goal, while at the same time totally skipping over the fundamentals of human interaction and how to engage socially with others, and it’s fucking bullshit.

naamahdarling

I had something snarky to say, but that last comment is too important to distract from.

invisiblelad

An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno.

tempestpaige

the complete and utter distaste the defunctland youtube channel has for michael eisner gives me so much joy

skarchomp

marlowelune

cis people hold systematic privilege on the basis of being cis. ‘cisphobia’ is an empowering joke.

straight people hold systematic privilege on the basis of being straight. ‘heterophobia’ is an empowering joke.

a-spec people do not hold systematic privilege on the basis of being a-spec. ‘aphobia’ is not an empowering joke. At it’s most innocent, it’s bullying. At it’s worst, it’s bigoted abuse that endangers, scars and traumatizes LGBT+ people.

historicaltimes

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

via reddit

14kgoldupgraded

Don’t forget this part either. While the 1924 Immigration Act essentially cut off Jewish immigration to the U.S., further action by officials enforcing anti-immigrant law was a huge issue in the 1930s too. Being a refugee did not save you from deportation.

And the same thing is happening today with all the refugees from the west and south Asian, and Central and South American countries we’ve either destablized or aided in the destabilization of. We can’t let ICE and their minions deport these immigrants to be killed.

rollership

Imagine being deported to a country currently being bombed by the apathetic oblivious americans, and subsequently being one of the 90% civilian casualties being killed by the atrocities purchased with 60% of your tax money.

898-deactivated20210515

luckystrabismus

here’s a way more legible version of That Post. please spread this like wildflower.

radfems promote a theory of socialization that goes like this.

- people assigned female at birth are heavily encouraged to embody femininity: empathy, sexual restraint, nurturance, deference to men, a focus on accommodating others.

- people assigned male at birth are heavily encouraged to embody masculinity: callousness, sexual aggression, self-absorption, domination over women, a focus on vying for power.

- these forms of socialization, according to them, most meaningfully occur in the earliest stages of life, and they are always successfully internalized by their intended targets. therefore, people with “female” bodies inevitably become women, and people with “male” bodies inevitably become men.

by their logic, either implicitly or explicitly, the set of genitals a person was born with is the best predictor of their behavior.

- so AFAB people must inevitably show characteristics of femininity, and AMAB people must inevitably show characteristics of masculinity. these characteristics are immutable (whenever it’s ideologically convenient), and exist in spite of physical alteration (whenever it’s ideologically convenient).

radfems claim that gender socialization, on the whole, is abusive and morally wrong, because it facilitates one social class’ oppression of the other. but because female socialization includes empathy, sexual restraint, nurturance, and general prosociality, radfems believe that the safest people to be around are cis women and trans men. trans men’s level of ‘safeness’ is especially ensured if they were forcibly barred from transitioning successfully counseled into accepting themselves as gnc women.

so, with this warping of the gender socialization model, radfems are less interested in the realities of trans and gnc people’s lives, and more interested in forcibly linking genitalia, sex assignment, and moral goodness.

i-hate-chick-fil-a

I’m gonna go out and guess… an all white jury ?

http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/05/27/racial-bias-jury-selection/

“Researchers who studied Florida non–death penalty cases between 2000 and 2010 found that when just one black juror joined the pool, the gap in conviction rates narrowed to 2 percent”

unicornluvin8765

This can’t be a surprise to anyone. 😐😐 I’m more surprised that he was able to be found not guilty years later but the damage is already done.

astrodidact

How about jail time for this? He is despicable. Keep fighting, Stacey. We are right there with you all the way!!!

Source: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/georgia-officials-kept-hundreds-of-voting-machines-locked-in-warehouses-on-election-day/?fbclid=IwAR3QkG6g0d1CQDZM4qIchrpsBDi3vY-Y9H4D6UyTESVJ6HHmgUQOZEYga_4

Hundreds of functional voting machines sat locked away in warehouses across Atlanta as thousands of black voters weathered hours-long lines

zvaigzdelasas

61 cents an hour was too much.

Don’t forget this during the impending outpour of Crocodile tears by politicians over the scope and scale of this disaster.

mikeymagee

Kentucky Shooter complained about Racebending Superheroes

Remember all those times people kept saying “Stop talking about racism in Fandom” or “Why’re you bringing this up when REAL racism is happening right now?”

Or

“They’re JUST comic books, they don’t mean anything. Focus your anger on REAL issues.”

Ya’ll remember that shit? Because I fucking remember that shit. All those “Comic book purists” people like to coddle and make excuses for, well, they could just be the next person to shoot up a Black church.

Funny how fandom acts as a microcosm for larger issues, ain’t it?

bearer-of-bad-decisions

teenagerposts

a rollercoaster from start to finish

undertastic-dork

Steve looks so confused in the last pic and that’s what makes it so funny

bimboficationblues

Classic comedy is right-wing slime-creatures complaining about identity politics while insisting that “Western civilization” is a coherent geographical-historical category

bimboficationblues

“I, a 21st-century American, am primordially connected to Plato because we are both opposed to collectivism and advocate ‘Judeo-Christian values.’ My entire worldview is a house of cards and I’ve never actually read anything I talk about”

abolish-everything-deactivated2

This way of thinking is the central thing of critique in this really good essay by Graeber, “There Never Was a West, Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between”, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-there-never-was-a-west

miseducatedmelanicmuse

Please reblog, this is so important.

notoriousthuggg

I needed this

amuseinherfeels

Is this foreal?

miseducatedmelanicmuse

Yes it’s a real service. I do volunteer work for a rape crisis support service in my city and texting is one of the features we provide as well. But just to boost its credibility, I tried it myself: