It’s very selective. They know Bible stories from Sunday school and have been told a few passages.

It’s a really complicated anthology of books written across 1000ish years (earliest being fragmentary bits of poetry preserved in altered context, most of it being 400 BCE on). Tons of it is related to distant political struggles or cultural norms, stuff so hopelessly distant from us and written in hard to understand language (especially with this KJV only-ists.)

Then, you add 2000 years of history, pop culture, and interpretation. It’s a really difficult text and it’s difficult for anyone to understand without getting a lot of support and context. The context is often presented in a misleading way, pick your denomination and flavor of distortion

The absolute best strategy for most reading comprehension struggles is read aloud. Active discussion is good too.

Or I also like to tell my high schoolers to be contrarian with the text. To argue against it, to try to prove it wrong, even to the point of bad faith. “You’re saying the book sucks - I want receipts. Tell me about it.” I don’t really have training in teaching english but I will happily pressure high schoolers into reading the books in English class.

Musk platforms Rowling. That’s the point. There is a concerted, multi pronged approach to fascism, where there is a large group of alt right weirdos LARPing as “radical feminists” have tricked a bunch of young women who would otherwise be organizing on things like reproductive health care or lesbian rights or workplace equality to hyperfixate on the same cause Elon is obsessed with because his daughters transition is a fundamental assault on his masculinity/desire to create a genetic space empire?

You can doubt my putonghua skills all you want and accuse me of not being feminist - but feel free to stalk me and test both claims. Sort by downvotes for the feminism, likely.

Random question -what’s your favorite book? I’m really vibing with your interpretation here.

manosphere

I’m a radical feminist. I am gravely concerned about the fact that trans exclusionary radical feminism has co-opted the term “radical feminism,” despite some of the greatest minds of radical feminism recognizing that trans people are great for feminism actually (eg, Dworkin.)

I’m pointing out/attempting to call attention the fact that there is this strange community of crypto feminists who are mask off fascists, and no one seems to be noticing this disturbing alt right pipeline for girls.

I didn’t use Google translate. That’s high school level Chinese, I didn’t even bother using Pleco.

Once you incorporate networking, you’ve lost me. I’d rather implement ed on a billion NAND chips. Soldering is enjoyable and physical; networking gives me aneurysms.

你也不懂汉语？你的名字是”张殿李”？你说不说汉语？你是中国人吗？

你会写英语，不懂英语。

These is why the alt right pipeline for women is transphobia/TERF shit.

Sexism is real, lots of teenage girls and young women feel frustrated and powerless, but they get easy wins going after trans women. They can’t get Dobbs reversed, but forcing trans people to detransition is an explicit goal of conservative power structures. They get to feel like they “won” with that UK court ruling - that “women’s rights” were won by something that did nothing to actually meaningfully help women.

Strange numbers and bullet ballots.

The state of Oklahoma mandates teaching that the 2020 election was stolen. DARVO in action.

Not just historian, but a specific type of political historian. “Historian” is a broad umbrella - Snyder is the only one I’ve read, but he’s very much focused specifically on authoritarianism, fascism and genocide. His Bloodlands is kinda the book on mass killings by Nazis and the USSR.

With regard to social issues, they certainly appear to be stuck there.

The point being it’s obnoxious that discussions of any female politician at some point have to bring up their attractiveness. It’s completely irrelevant to the work they do. I can’t think of male politicians getting the same treatment.

Woman: exists

Gooner: is for me?

“Radical feminists” on tumblr are calling themselves fascists because they are happy with the porn ban.

Masks are off, “radical feminism” was always a front.

For some reason you reminded me of this.

because it was mandatory to do some

Usually understood to be a violation of ethics if they didn’t provide you the opportunity for an alternative assignment btw.

Thanks for the explanation. It’s very interesting to learn about how others perceive the world.

What does understanding mean for you in this sense?

I don’t mean to come across as ignorant or disrespectful - just curious. A big part of my understanding of that passage is the process of visualization. When I read that passage, I feel it. It’s wet, it’s filthy, everyone is upset and I imagine faces scowling. That’s what “understanding” means to me as a process.

It’s probably some ASD-ish adjacent, but it just breaks my brain every time. It seems like there’s a large proportion of people who don’t seem to actually care whether they have an accurate understanding of the world or not? The amount of times online I’ve been able to show someone evidence that they demanded, and then they double down. At best they’ll go silent, but then you’ll see them making the exact same claim later.

In general right now it seems like there are a lot willing to call evil good, and good evil. Everything is backwards. The Moral Majority voted in a pedophile rapist.

I got a BS in a STEM field and a BA in the humanities. I think I was substantially benefited by both.

Even when I teach STEM - being able to draw on knowledge of Greek history and philosophy makes my lessons on the Pythagorean theorem more effective. When I talk about chemical equilibrium, I talk about the impact of climate changes on communities. When I talk about Newton’s laws, I talk about Newton context in scientific publishing of the time and some of his weird ideas about alchemy.