new good aussie vid just dropped

  • temptest [any]
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    1 year ago

    If this weren't just an entertainment video, then ideally it just wouldn't be made, because it probably couldn't be much better than this.

    At the end of the day, even within the US there are different cultures, societies, and etc., but like they're demonstrating, even the legitimate issues the Prager video touches upon are ridiculous to a typical Australian (or NZ like me). Through many friends who went universities there I know of an Australian city chem lecturer using meth recipes to demonstrate interactions in a memorable way, and another who brought a rifle (unloaded, of course) into a lecture a few years ago to demonstrate a concept in computer security. Both still teaching. In school we played unisex teams for sports like football (soccer) and hockey, had a teacher secretly show us how to make dry ice bombs, had sex ed all in the same room (srsly imagine thinking men shouldn't need to know how pregnancy works, or women knowing how condoms are used...), analysed poems about Zeus raping a girl, Shakespeare's usual smut is actually mandatory, and, well, literacy isn't so atrocious that "teach boys to be readers" is a sentence we can take more seriously than "teach women to add and subtract numbers". Which I'm hoping is also by-and-large ridiculous............

    Australians, along with most of The West, are largely ignorant of this topic. Inevitably. It would take dedicated, concerted research to make any insightful comment beyond "what the fuck is your country doing to kids?" or "PragerU is just making this up, right?"

    • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It's a frame issue honestly. The Prager argument that schools these days have gone soft or whatever is largely based on lies and mischaracterizations, but there are some real policies like zero-tolerance bullying policies which are supposed to shield schools against legal liability. Anyway, ceding the frame to Prager and just saying "pop tart gun suspension is silly because of real school shootings" kind of loses the argument right there.

      Your primary school experience is pretty much the same as mine in the northern US. University campuses almost all ban guns so your security professor would have had to bring in an airsoft rifle.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      teach boys to be readers doesn't mean teach boys to be able to read it means get boys to read for fun.