So i desperately tried to explain why black people commit more crimes

I’m almost black people commit crime at relatively the same rate as other racial groups.

not due to some abstract cultural difference between white people and black people, but because they live in absolute poverty, desolation, and often literally have no other choice.

This only loosely explains why black people are more likely to be charged with certain types of crime.

The reason black people make up a larger percentage of the US prison population and are more likely to be charged with crimes in the first place is because police target black people. This is a systemic and ubiquitous phenomenon in police departments. Many factors contribute to more convictions for black people, but next time you might want to lean into how black neighborhoods and towns are over-policed.

Absolutely.

I don’t think I articulated my point about parents being entitled well enough. I assume their entitlement is born out of an unconscious understanding that child rearing requires community support. But we are so atomized by capital infused lifestyles that some parents seem very entitled when their kids enter school. I think that us educators have to realize that school is, for some of parents, their first interaction in their adult lives with community support. So we get parents who want us to raise their children because they might be exhausted by their own efforts. They’re trying to impart the labor of child rearing onto the education system. And I don’t blame them at all for that. That entitled behavior can be very negative though.

In a sane society, we would attempt unburden the education system by providing housing, free childcare, walkable neighborhoods, health insurance, etc.

One of my last posts on Reddit was related to this. I frequented the r/teachers sub because I’m a teacher. But I hated that sub. So many burnout educators blaming parents, and only parents, for their students’ poor behavior. There was always a thread about “why are kids so poorly behave nowadays!?” The main complaint about parents was the letting smartphones raise their kids. But like you said, they miss the point entirely.

To paraphrase myself, there is a clear through line that links poor parenting skills to economic precarity and social atomization. Parenting takes a lot of physical and emotional energy. If you’re overworked, under-employed, worried about the next paycheck, uncertain about the future, or whatever AND you have a precision engineered, scientifically perfected, rectangular instrument of distraction in your pocket at all times it’s no wonder to me kids’ social/emotional needs are being neglected. Overworked parents in ages past might turn to the bottle. Now we’re all overworked and our liquor cabinets fit in the palm of our hands.

Liberal teachers love to complain that parents are too entitled now. Parents want teachers and schools to solve their kids’ problems, prepare them for the future, protect them from the scary real world, to raise their kids, blah blah blah. Teachers complain, but continue to show up to school day after day because they’re stuck in the same precarity as the parents. But even they know, deep down, that it shouldn’t be this hard to raise children. They just can’t figure out why it’s so hard.

The only pandemic the IOC cares to prevent is the sinful act of premarital sex, by why of those cardboard anti-sex beds.

I like the siding. Both the outsiding and the insiding.

Abusers find ways to have unmonitored access to children.

Normal people don’t look at starting a YouTube channel as a way to have access to children and the opportunity to groom them. Normal people also don’t become doctors or teachers or coaches for the same reasons. But because these careers give abusers access and opportunities to offend they select these jobs.

I think for the most part you wouldn’t have to use the conversion powers on children. They’ll be much better comrades if the people who loved them modeled empathy and camaraderie.

Therefore, Tanner would absolutely need to be converted.

Parent-teacher night just got a whole lot more interesting at the suburban school I teach at. Now I can finally teach dialectics to elementary students. If I can use it selectively, I’d like to not convert Tanner’s parents because it would be funny.

Yes, let us judge literal children with practically zero agency.

I’m always amazed by how much of the neoliberal economy is held up by ads. Producers want people to buy their products so bad that they literally throw away hundreds, thousands, millions of dollars so that 1.0% of us rubes might click a link or go to a drive-thru.

My brother works in marketing. He’s explained the ROI for ads. I just don’t believe it. It’s a fucking shell game.

Not immediately throwing my clothes in a wash and showering when I got home like usual. That small mistake resulted in a months long battle with bedbugs. Never again.

“We did it, Patrick! We saved the city!”

I’m familiar with this. It’s Greek diaspora architecture. You can tell from the everything about it.

Thanks for this read, with sources and notes too. As a resident anarchist in the imperial core I can personally attest to how anarchism is easily one of the most useful ideological trappings for American cultural individualism and academic liberal elites. To the point where it is almost an entirely captured ideology. I’m victim to such propaganda about Zapatista.

Thank you for helping me to further decolonize my mind.