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14 days ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)2 children
She uses a lot of complex terminology -- some that seems invented for this very concept -- to say that some people think a certain way and that is too hard for people like her to find a way around. Like an incorporeal idea is some big obstacle blocking progress. It's like attempting suicide with your own victim mentality.
14 days ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
> Like an incorporeal idea is some big obstacle blocking progress.
There was one, she mentions the concept of cyclical rather than linear time. Thinking of time as cyclical rather than linear actually blocks progress. It's the white man that came along and allowed progress by correcting them.
When she talks about "freeing ourselves" she's talking about going back to being subsistence farmers and freeing themselves from the white concept of leaving things better than you found them.
This is a trick that universities have been using for years. You can train almost anyone to parrot phrases of information and even convince them that they know what they're talking about when they do it but if they haven't learned to understand the concepts behind what they are saying, they don't know how to question them, leaving them nothing more than academic consumers. Education should be about teaching how to think, not what to think but these methods have made universities the fast food of societal development. It is more expensive than it should be and it gives you only the very minimum you need to survive while poisoning you the entire time.
14 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
There's a whole lexicon of this terminology, and it absolutely is invented for this and related concepts. The same lexicon is the source of phrases like "people of color," "queer folks," and "birthing person."
13 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
What further baffles me, is how backwards these terms are. "People of color" uses people as the descriptor and color as the subject. "Colored people" the opposite, showing that people are the subject and therefore the center of value in the concept. The new term literally supplants these people as being people, and instead makes them subservient to the concept of color.
There was one, she mentions the concept of cyclical rather than linear time. Thinking of time as cyclical rather than linear actually blocks progress. It's the white man that came along and allowed progress by correcting them.
When she talks about "freeing ourselves" she's talking about going back to being subsistence farmers and freeing themselves from the white concept of leaving things better than you found them.