
karlboll
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and post old memes...and I'm all out of bubblegum."
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It's simple science 5 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
Since Bruce Campbell isn't doing Ash in the Evil Dead franchise anymore, perhaps Cavill could pick the old boomstick and chainsaw? I'd watch it.
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Freedomn't 9 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
People were very nice and did their best to make me part of the group, and we joked a lot about turntables.
But it was important to me, as hearing, to see the other side of the fence. Just booking the interpreters to be able to take part in an event was a three day job. I had to learn so much and change lots of things just to be there on slightly less unequal terms. I've had similar experiences with other groups, being the only white guy in a room where everyone is politely including me in something I'm not naturally a part of.
I think everyone should try that at least once in their life.
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But it was important to me, as hearing, to see the other side of the fence. Just booking the interpreters to be able to take part in an event was a three day job. I had to learn so much and change lots of things just to be there on slightly less unequal terms. I've had similar experiences with other groups, being the only white guy in a room where everyone is politely including me in something I'm not naturally a part of.
I think everyone should try that at least once in their life.
Freedomn't 9 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
@party05 Yes, that's a better way of putting it.
@roanoke I general i agree, people should be encouraged to ask questions. And ofc a lot of people who could really benefit from this kind of event won't go.
I've been to a few workshops, events, lectures etc, like these. I've been asked not to take up room and to listen rather than speak as the focus has been on women, POC, trans and other minorities and it is a very teachable moment. As a white, middle aged cis male is almost impossible for mer not to speak. I want to ask questions and I find myself expecting answers and accommodation. My favourite one was quite accidental;
I'm a supporting member of a chapter of my main organisation (RFSL) for the deaf and was invited to a conference on this. As everyone else in the conference knew sign language and could communicate unhindered I found myself having to book an interpreter. I was the only one chaperoned by two interpreters and I felt very outside and disabled in that context. ..
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@roanoke I general i agree, people should be encouraged to ask questions. And ofc a lot of people who could really benefit from this kind of event won't go.
I've been to a few workshops, events, lectures etc, like these. I've been asked not to take up room and to listen rather than speak as the focus has been on women, POC, trans and other minorities and it is a very teachable moment. As a white, middle aged cis male is almost impossible for mer not to speak. I want to ask questions and I find myself expecting answers and accommodation. My favourite one was quite accidental;
I'm a supporting member of a chapter of my main organisation (RFSL) for the deaf and was invited to a conference on this. As everyone else in the conference knew sign language and could communicate unhindered I found myself having to book an interpreter. I was the only one chaperoned by two interpreters and I felt very outside and disabled in that context. ..
Freedomn't 9 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
The group of white people who would attend an event at a Scottish university is unlikely to have experienced this before, and just like you they will feel it is unfair to have special rules for them because of their skin colour.
One famous example of how to use this method educationally is Jane Elliott's Blue eyes, Brown eyes. Elliott split her students into two groups, based on eye color. She told them that people with brown eyes were superior to those with blue eyes, for reasons she made up. Brown-eyed people, she told the students, are smarter, more civilized and better than blue-eyed people.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/08/888846330/we-are-repeating-discrimination-experiment-every-day-educator-says
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Edited 1 year ago
One famous example of how to use this method educationally is Jane Elliott's Blue eyes, Brown eyes. Elliott split her students into two groups, based on eye color. She told them that people with brown eyes were superior to those with blue eyes, for reasons she made up. Brown-eyed people, she told the students, are smarter, more civilized and better than blue-eyed people.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/08/888846330/we-are-repeating-discrimination-experiment-every-day-educator-says
Better alternative 15 comments
Sorry boss, yea I’m going to be late again… 4 comments
Thank you, I will do what you tell me 1 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
My every action causes outrage in the establishment and my very existence is punishable by death in 75 countries.
*puts on sunglasses*
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*puts on sunglasses*
How do you refill your mechanical pencils? 2 comments
Anyone know what the surprise is? 1 comments
hero 6 comments
Should I? 3 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
No, he just needs to be activated and played with. Take him for long walk. He's just board.
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Gen Z strikes again !! 8 comments
Double it and pass it on to the next country 1 comments
Surely she's trolling 3 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
Oh, do I have the best ideology for you. Have you thought about becoming an lgbtq-activist or dedicated feminist?
The logic is weak with this one 4 comments
hero 6 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
Muammar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan politician, revolutionary, and political theorist. He was the de facto leader of Libya from 1969 to 2011, first as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. I don't know why they're misgendering him though, he's clearly a cis-man. That's just rude.
Life goals! 6 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
Lego is the shit though. I am fortunate enough to be the keeper of my niece's and nephew's Lego. It's great!
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When Tinder doesn't work .. 14 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
Two of them? I mean sure, knock yourself out. If you see a white cardboard box with Chinese lettering on it, lemme know, I've been looking for that. Don't look inside it though.
The logic is weak with this one 4 comments
karlboll
· 1 year ago
Okay, but Galileo's work built heavily on Nicolaus Copernicus, Aristoteles, Hans Lippershey and his father Vincenzo Galilei. Those in turn built on previous work.
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Edited 1 year ago