This is the kind of attitude that heals a little of my battered, threadbare hope. It’s nice to feel that hope.
She’s moved on to having to teach adults who can’t grasp shit children can.
because they’re all 12??
A 12 year old could grasp these things.
Yep I knew this shit when I was twelve thanks to my parents and my Navajo stepdad.
We had a school presentation when I was in elementary school where we had to represent a country and I did a presentation about the genocide of indigenous people at home and abroad by the US and the British lol.
I want to know why at a certain age, people start to vice signal and try to act “evil” because they think it’s “edgy” or something — where does that come from? I’m of the opinion that adults can grasp these things (since, you know, they presumably did at some point when they were younger and largely weren’t deliberately being cruel like this) but choose not to for some reason and I wish I knew why.
If I were to guess it’s a perception that the world being cruel and there being bad people is “just the way it is” and that holding on to “kiddie morality” makes you “too good for this world”. By extension, caring and sharing then makes you either naive, weak, foolhardy or parasitic. In such a cruel world, preservation of oneself and the group you belong to become all that matters.
Society sucks, but “handouts” will be taken advantage of, accepting queer people threatens social order, leftists and “soft” people always get in the way of what needs to be done: discipline and cleansing.
I think it’s a LOT simpler than all that. I think people are just angry. Their material conditions are worsening and it makes them mad. Just like how when someone is mad and you walk up they’ll lash out at you because you happen to be nearby people who get angry and need someone to vent their anger on often go after the most vulnerable. In their personal lives that usually involves being abusive to pets, children, spouses, etc and societally it expresses itself as being abusive towards marginalized groups.
I was planning on adding something like that, about people who feel disempowered wanting to feel power over someone else. In the end I didn’t add it because it would have felt like flinging stuff at a wall and I wanted my comment to be concise.
Possibly a better person than anyone on this website. Absolutely a better person than I am.
We would all be better off for more folks like her in this world.
She’s one of my favourites. Nothing I like more than someone who genuinely thinks of the children in every situation, and calls out the adults who refuse to actually protect children they claim to care about, or to set good examples for those children in social behaviour.
my goat
Ms. Rachel for president!
She’s amazing
o7
does she ever miss
