Honk

the silliest goose of them all

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

People will be so mean to teenagers do you literally not remember what it was like to be sixteen. Every time I talk to a teenager I feel I should hold their hands and tell them I think they're one of the bravest people on the planet just for choosing to endure but I don't because I don't want to be creepy.

[maskdoll]

fuck i’m trying to catch all these flies but they think my vinegar is stupid. i have honey also but that’s for me i can’t give them any of that

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

management trying to hire and retain employees

[rakiloslov]

Can't wait for the uniqueness of the holocaust to be a topic of importance in a political campaign in america in 2024. That's how it should be. That's normal

[gsirvitor]

It's true, the Holocaust isn't unique, it holds the largest impact because it is the most recent one, at least for jews, given time other genocides will overshadow it, and it should be taught in the same vein as other historic atrocities.

There was the Effacer le tableau.

The Hutu massacres of the first Congo war.

The Rwandan Genocide.

The Bosnian Genocide.

The Isaaq Genocide.

The Anfal campaign.

The Gukurahundi.

The Cambodian Genocide.

The East Timor Genocide.

The Ikiza.

The Bangladesh Genocide, which may have a repeat very soon.

The Holodomor.

The Great Leap Forward.

The Armenian Genocide.

I can go on.

To limit education to but one atrocity, when all of these happened in the same century is an attempt to reframe or even hide these atrocities, for instance I have seen many socialists defend both the Holodomor and the Armenian Genocide, it does those being educated a disservice by treating the Holocaust as unique while surrounded by a myriad of other heinous genocides.

[unpopularly-opinionated]

I will say context is important, and I don't know the context here, but yeah he's right to acknowledge the many other genocides that exist.

[brazenautomaton]

I mean the context in the screenshot provided is obviously correct and vindicates what Walz is saying. Someone screenshotted that as proof Walz was wrong because they could not read the words in it, just that it somehow disagrees with them.

He fucking says, right there, "to exclude other acts of genocide severely limited students' ability to synthesize the lessons of the Holocaust and ability to apply them elsewhere," that's the quote that this thread's OP and Twitter OP both looked at and got enraged by without reading! Guess what? If you teach people the Holocaust was completely unique and unprecedented and unrelated to any other patterns of behavior, the take-home lesson is that it might as well have been done by space aliens and there's no reason to be concerned with what humans are doing!

[cookingwithroxy]

and by divorcing the Holocaust from all other genocides, it also allows people to not have a framework of other mass atrocities, which surprisingly enough seems to make them believe that the holocaust could have actually NOT happened, considering how they don't have a framework about how often atrocities happen.

[starfieldcanvas]

the follow-up here is that when walz taught his class of sophomore high school students about the holocaust, he had them extensively study other genocides and the social conditions that preceded them. the class wrapped up with a group project trying to predict where the next genocide was most likely to take place

(this was in 1993)

and where did they collectively conclude the next genocide was most likely to happen?

Rwanda.

if, like me, you can't remember the date of the Rwandan genocide off the top of your head, it kicked off in April 1994.

So ... when Tim Walz says that studying the Holocaust as part of a pattern is vitally important, he is not talking out of his ass.

[tachyon-at-rest]

We need more professional educators in government leadership positions instead of professional grifters

[memeclassheroes]

[funnytwittertweets]

[st4rm41d]

oh man i gotta pee so bad they must have laced this drink with glass of water

[slimetony]

They call me golf course

[slimetony]

Eighteen holes

[rnismatch]

Are you gonna eat that ---> (nothing left on the plate but crums) (you look backl and im ant)

[mousiemooo]

I just wanna talk about my experience being a college resident assistant real quick because there is no job i have personal knowledge of to this day that has fucking abused their workers in the specific way they do when you’re an RA. 

(TW for sui///e mention)

Like, here is just a list of things I have had to do in my 2.5 years of being an RA.

Clean up blood, call an ambulance, and provide medical first aid. I was given no assistance and had to clean with no mask, gloves, or protective equipment. This occurred at 2am.

Was on call during the ENTIRE Texas snow storm. By myself. For 5 days. Day and night. This meant when any maintenance problem, lockout, power outage, ect happened i was in charge solely of dealing with it for an entire apartment complex.

kill bugs for residents

wake up at ungodly hours of the night because someone thinks someone elses music is too loud

wake up at ungodly hours of the night because someone locked themselves out of their room

(TW suicide/alcohol) checked in with a suicidal, extremely drunk resident that was cursing and calling me names and screaming at me just for checking in with her. I was alone. This went on for 3 hours until 2am and by the time it was over i was having a legitimate panic attack in my apartment. I was still forced to work through the night and into the next day.

(TW suicide) I was told the next morning to go to the resident above’s room and “make sure she isn’t dead”

I was forced to work immediately after slipping in water after the laundry room exploded with water even though I also had to submit workers comp. I was not actually compensated with time or money.

Our training consisted of a grueling 2 weeks straight of 8am-8pm days at the beginning of each semester

RAs were consistently left at the bottom of the priority list for every situation, emergency or otherwise

We were made to work in an office that had no working air conditioning. In Texas. For hours.

RAs mental health was completely disregarded at all times and although in training we were constantly told ‘it’s okay to ask for extensions’ they were either not given or we were guilted heavily for taking them.

We were expected to work even when we weren’t working. If you were minding your business in your daily life and something happened that you could take care of you were expected to.

I once asked my supervisor if he could address ableism I was experiencing with the other RAs and I was told that I, actually, instead, could tell people directly at the next staff meeting to stop asking invasive questions about why I use a cane. I dont have to explain why thats fucked up.

And so, so much more. The best part? We aren’t fucking PAID. we are not paid for our desk shifts, we aren’t paid to be on call, we aren’t paid for all the insane hours we are made to work while we are also expected to be good students (you could be fired for doing badly in school), not a dollar ever actually touched our hands. We were given a room and limited access to food. That’s it. 

So if you think when you go to college maybe you’ll be a resident assistant, unless you absolutely MUST do so to continue your education like I did, don’t. It’s detrimental to your health. It really is.

[politijohn]

[defleftist]

Too rageful to be eloquent right now so the words of others will have to suffice for the moment.

[paleblueyedot]

[therealsillygoose]

Can't get

HONQUE

Out of my head

[just-shower-thoughts]

Jedi are taken as children and are forbidden relationships, so the majority of them are virgins. Nerds.

[tboy-catvalentine]

i am against all bully x bullying victim ships, EXCEPT for whatever the fuck baljeet and buford from pnf had going on

[just-shower-thoughts]

Teachers are praising the quiet student for being quiet and mature when in reality he has anxiety and lacks social skills.

[therealsillygoose]

there is a difference between caramel corn and kettle corn and I did not know this until today