School reopens Monday and there were 95,000 cases of kids getting covid just last week. The neoliberal ghouls are pretending everything is fine and kids can be 0 feet from eachother and making testing less accessible.

Meanwhile I have very elderly coworkers who will absolutely die if they get COVID and an electrical system at my janky ass school that is too shitty to run air purifiers without blowing a fuse.

My kids will get sick, my colleauges will get sick and I will get sick and infect my partner all because we apparently needed to have a fucking rager for the 4th of July for the economy to not shit out its lungs.

Fuck Amerika

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I feel you, although I have a few more weeks. The amount of gaslighting to justify having kids packed cheek to jowl in school buildings is unreal. I know for a fucking fact I'm going to get COVID again at some point this year.

    • SuperDullesBros [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      It is 100% gaslighting and I feel FUCKING CRAZY. Fortunately my union is fairly militant and we are starting to get alternative reporting pathways underway incase the district tries to cover it up or downplay this.

      Even my msnbc liberal parents are starting to smell the coffee and get worried but not the school.

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It's so fucking weird to see them repeat the exact same playbook as last year, where they say we must take every precaution against this pandemic, except in schools, which are totally safe. I wish my union was at all militant

        • SuperDullesBros [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Ours is BARELY but a bunch of socialists just tookit over which is somewhat promising even if they are affiliated with an org I heavily disagree with

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The local state university opened for three weeks in Fall 2020. In-person classes, no restrictions, student dorms packed. It was so that they could collect on-campus tuition and not the lesser fees for online courses.

          One of my old criticisms of Mao was that I couldn't understand how academics are a black category. Anyone in education administration is a vantablack category after this year will certify them as the most successful school shooters in history.

          • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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            3 years ago

            I haven't gotten around to reading Mao yet, what do you mean by black category?

            • happybadger [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Black_Categories

              The five power structures of counterrevolutionary China.

              edit: Oh wait nope, they were in his larger list of Leviticus-type damnations:

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Old_Ninth

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                3 years ago

                I have to agree with this, even though I aspire to be an intellectual and go into academia. The amount of empty-brain politics from people that spend their whole life learning and analyzing systems is atrocious. Thanks for the information.

                • happybadger [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  The original context of it is hard to get a grasp of for me. Like the earlier list it's based on imperial court scholars who I know warred with the eunuchs for power over the emperors, but I don't know how much of that imperial legacy lasted into the republican era Mao was confronting. In a modern context it can only be read as university academics or public intellectuals. I can see how individual professors can be counterrevolutionary but they don't have structural power. Administration through the district and state/federal levels has power and is an ideological force, dictating what students are allowed to learn and in what conditions. Fields like economics serve to reinforce capitalism but I think everyone should have a full humanities education through a university level if they want. Public intellectuals give us Jordan Peterson, but we also got Foucault and Zizek. I can't put myself in the shoes of a 1940s Chinese communist confronting republican/imperial age intellectual roles.

                  • YouKnowIt [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    This is just what I understand and I may be off base. The republic of china only lasted for like 40 years and from Wikipedia, the imperial examinations were around from about 600 AD to around 1910. These scholars were training to get through these exams to become the vast majority of the administers and bureaucrats of the government and formed a meritocratic caste, which obviously becomes pretty hereditary, what with the generational wealth and advantages.

                    It's not really like they were hunting down Foucault. It'd be more like getting rid of the Ivy League fancy lads that form our government, government aids, and fuckwit journalists.

            • happybadger [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              We had one frat under house arrest for parties, outbreaks in dorms, and clusters in student-supported businesses.

          • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I've had my problems with my school admin, but they've consistently been sane and compassionate during the pandemic. Anyone above them though :gui-better: