bonus points if you get banned for sharing it

i'll start: most "vote blue no matter who" liberals are actually good people (not including terminally online liberals as anyone who is terminally online is a bad person)

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I agree with all of this, but as someone who taught, I was absolutely a cop in many contexts. Like, being a teacher as in , person who helps people learn is cool and good. Teacher as a profession that includes grading, assigning detention, enforcing truancy laws, controlling behavior and even bodily functions, that's absolutely about social control.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      I've written out and deleted several versions of a reply, but I'll just say that the kind of social control exercised when I give a grade and when the police murder someone in the street with the full backing of the state are of a rather different character and I'd appreciate I'd you didn't conflate them

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, fair. I definitely want to see dramatic school reform that gets rid of truancy laws and grades, but I think you're right that calling teachers cops is too much. It's more in line with social work, where the cops are always close, but not always present.