Tag: social consciousness
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Inclusion Is…
Inclusion is not a trophy for participating. Inclusion is not just representation. Inclusion is not hand-waving your presence that you are there. Inclusion is not having pity Inclusion is not putting other identities down in order to promote yours. Inclusion is not an unfair advantage over the others. Inclusion is not dumbing down everything so…
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Bodily Autonomy
A phrase we have heard quite a lot rather periodically, really. Sometimes I wonder if it is yet another rhetorical bomb we are thrown to simply divide people. However, I feel, it is not something we should shy away from discussing especially when we toy with the idea of abortion and other taboo subjects. You…
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Freedom (of speech)?
The best minds are not an echo chamber but made of a complexity that is even a treat to disagree with. Humor and insult are two different things – one has the intent of sharing a laugh. The other is for establishing superiority. Critique and insult also differ on the same pivot – one creates…
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The Meanness of Production
Any good socialist would argue the point of socialism is the seizure of the means of production.
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My Student, My “Other”
An interesting insight came up in the school playground not too long ago. It is extremely interesting how even within communities, even in schools, the adults or people born in different generations keep thinking of one another as “other.” Including teachers and their students. The structure of a school does raise a particular red flag.…
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Opium of the People
Why would a socialist such as myself choose to be in any way religious? Did not Marx famously describe religion as the “Opium of the people”? Well…yes and no. In Context, the statement was issued by Marx from a structuralist-functionalist perspective meaning that it is like a balm for the oppressed to find meaning in…
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