I love how they not only touched on culture appropriation and white privilege (and also how white girl felt like she was entitled to say and act however she wants) but also recognizing some issues that biracial people have to endure.
that autism feel when you have hundreds of special interest-related tabs open and you have other things to do and your computer is getting slower and slower but you can’t stop
For Chrome and Firefox users, let me recommend One Tab! The extension will autosort your tabs—all of them, or just the ones you pick—into a neat organized list at the click of the button you can come back to later. It turns any number of tabs into one, and since it’s just one big links list, it significantly reduces memory use to help speed up your computer.
It’s got a lot of other neat features, too, but it works really well just to declutter! Definitely recommend it!
out of all the aspects of millennial-bashing, i think the one that most confuses me is the “millennials all got trophies as a kid, so now they’re all self-centered narcissists” theory
like— kids are pretty smart, y’all. they can see that every kid on the team gets a trophy and is told they did a good job; they can also see that not every kid on the team deserves a trophy, and not everyone did do a good job
the logical conclusion to draw from this is not “i’m great and i deserve praise”— it’s “no matter how mediocre i am, people will still praise me to make me feel better, so i can’t trust any compliments or accolades i receive”
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
where did this whole “ugh millennials think their so-so work is super great” thing even come from it is a goddamn mystery
what fucking kills me is, yeah, maybe we got the trophies, but who gave them out
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
It’s also what I observed happening as a singing teacher: the older kids literally would not believe a positive word I said until I had proved I would tell them they screwed up/had done badly/etc. I did so in as useful a way as possible (“So this passage. We really need to work on this passage. A lot. This passage is not good yet.”), but with almost every adolescent I taught I had to prove I would give them straight-up criticism before they would parse my praise as anything other than meaningless “the grownups always do this” noise.
This just explained why my “I will make you redo your work until it’s correct” approach is 90% effective with my younger coworkers.
The whole “you have to earn a living” rhetoric is really toxic. Have we considered that maybe, in 2015, basic needs like housing, food, and medicine don’t really need to be “earned” but should, in any reasonably industrialized country, be guaranteed?
#what I’m saying is #basic universal income #should be a thing
This site really need to stop trying to make communism a thing. Yes the real world sucks but you need to learn put on your adult pants and get over it. Not everything in life is handed to you and yes you will have to work it.
Basic Universal Income isn’t communism. It is a form of socialism, but it leaves the free market in play completely. With increasing automation in the workforce, basic universal income is something we are going to need to consider soon as a society. There simply isn’t a labor demand to sustain our workforce anymore. However, there are enough resources and enough wealth available. We just need to be smarter about how we distribute it all.
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