One of the reasons for the invisibility of #AntiAsianRacism is inextricably connected to #ModelMinorityMyth. The myth focuses on #stereotypes of #Asians as hard-working, independent, intelligent & economically prosperous.
Stereotypes hide many issues & disappears the realities of working-class #AsianWomen’s lives.
The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.
Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.
Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".
Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."
Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."
Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."
Really now, why do people stubbornly adhere to the belief that Government entities require warrants to determine anything about you - like, where you are at this particular moment or the GPS coordinates of your location last Tuesday at 17:42hrs UTC? ... And pretty much anything else you can dream up about yourself: The content of conversations with others, everything you've purchased at anytime, what you are likely to eat for dinner this coming Friday, your medical records; you name it!
All without a warrant, even for local law enforcement.
And why would they bother, when they can just buy it from the#privacy_miningcompaniesthat you already gave it to for free?
"Are we okay with living in a society where our comfort comes at the expense of others, atop the subjugated lives of others? The West is faced with this question in a moment of piercing clarity. It has been asked before, but in this dark hour the answer feels different. Masses of people are screaming out their answer, crying out their answer. It may fall on the closed ears and closed-off minds in the hall of power, for now, but we become harder to ignore every day. Gaza becomes harder to ignore every day." —Joshua P. Hill
Excuse me?
Google now moderates your synched bookmarks? The hell?
To clarify: this is a Google Save Collection, which is one of the mechanisms Google syncs bookmarks via. They're not the default in Chrome (but accessible), but they are the only bookmark facility in the Google Search app, using the standard bookmark icon.
Fixated Units is the name (no it isn't but it kinda is). Studied law and politics and media and philosophy at those wanky unis
Cadetted in media and law firms and rounded up heaps of sheep. This one day we were droving sheep past a hillock on the side of the road (because it was a drought and the only place we could find feed) and a car spooked the front and they ran back around the hill and next thing we had a counter-clockwise mob of fucking sheep just going round and round the hill, all chasing each other with some leaping over the exact same spot even though there was nothing there. I just sat back exacerbated
Anecdote that's also a metaphor. Anyhoo, I'm nice and look forward to this experience
Prefer to discuss games and fiction and graphic novels, the balm on a country kid's soul, but here we are