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pratchettquotes · 3 months
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People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
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alwaysbewoke · 23 days
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On March 5th, 1959, 69 African American boys, ages 13 to 17, were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Around 4 a.m., a fire mysteriously ignited, forcing the boys to fight and claw their way out of the burning building. The old, run-down, & low-funded facility, just 15 minutes south of Little Rock, housed 69 teens from ages 13-17. Most were either homeless or incarcerated for petty crimes such as doing pranks. 48 boys managed to escape the fire. The doors were locked from the outside and fire mysteriously ignited on a cold, wet morning, following earlier thunderstorms in the same area of rural Pulaski County. The horrific event brought attention to the deplorable conditions in which the boys lived. The boys all slept in a space barely big enough for them to move around & theyre one foot apart from one another & their bathroom was a bucket at the corner where they had to defecate in. In an ironic twist, the land in which the school stood is now the Arkansas Department of Correction Facility Wrightsville Unit. In 2019 a plaque was finally placed after 60 years.
PURE EVIL!!! MY GOD!!
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conscious-love · 11 months
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We must each tell the truth, and repair what is in disrepair, and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons the world. It’s asking a lot. It’s asking for everything.
Dr. Jordan B Peterson
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quotesfromall · 1 year
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Well-meaning persons are now working for a new departure in the prison question, — reclamation to restore once more to the prisoner the possibility of becoming a human being. Commendable as this is, I fear it is impossible to hope for good results from pouring good wine into a musty bottle. Nothing short of a complete reconstruction of society will deliver mankind from the cancer of crime. Still, if the dull edge of our social conscience would be sharpened, the penal institutions might be given a new coat of varnish. But the first step to be taken is the renovation of the social consciousness, which is in a rather dilapidated condition.
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
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nonromanceable-npc · 1 year
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Fun fact! Supporting “social justice” is actually meaningless in practice unless you can define what your perception of justice is and what social causes you support. Wether something is “socially just” therefor is entirely based on your own perceptions and agendas. This can lead to a lot of conflict in spaces where everyone thinks they are being “socially just”.
To some people, “justice” is restorative, i.e. an offender can work towards repaying their victim or overcoming their offense. This often involves mediated dialogue between an offender and victim.
To others it is retributive, i.e. punishment for action is seen as imperative. This can be seen frequently in western society. Jail time, cancel culture, and concepts of revenge fall under this label.
How you define justice therefor will entirely alter how your “social justice” looks. The second defining factor is your social cause(s).
Rarely will you be pro every social cause, largely because many do not align and/or the time necessary to properly engage with the causes would be soooo consuming. You can have more than one, but the key is usually choosing a few that are central to your beliefs/character. For most people, causes share themes such as;
Person 1: Supports lgbt+ marriage equality, gender affirming care, and women’s reproductive health (theme gender/sexuality equity)
Person 2: Is anti incarceration, supports removing police from schools, and desires cultural competence and bias training for those in the court system (theme justice reform)
Both of these individuals support “social justice” but there actually supporting incredibly different things! Even if you have two people supporting these same causes, their approach to justice may alter how they promote and envision social change.
You know what’s the most fun part of this? No understanding of “social justice” is technically wrong!
No one thinks they are doing the wrong thing, everyone thinks there approach is best, and it can be incredibly difficult to engage with others when you don’t know the perspectives they are bringing to the “social justice” table.
Just some fun stuff to think about as you continue on your way through life.
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indizombie · 9 months
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Dr Singh says one of the first steps to healing is to accept we have turned numb to the pain of our fellow citizens, normalised brutality. This is not normal. The solution begins, she says, by creating physical spaces where all women can feel safe and supported by counsellors, therapists and mediators who help process grief. That’s just stop gap measures. Dr Singh says we need a government that buys into social and educational reform and “investment in preventative and curative services to help people recalibrate how they think.” Next time a woman is blamed for being attacked based on how she is dressed, we must remember she is a human whose body is autonomous. Why can’t she wear her shorts? Why can’t a woman’s body be hers?
Ira Mathur, ‘Why can’t her body be hers?’, Trinidad Guardian
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mimi-0007 · 2 years
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ligninqueenie · 1 year
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What’s wrong with being woke? It’s better than sleeping on shit.
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lianabrooks · 2 years
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Do It Now
Thought From Church: Giving "charity" to the "deserving poor" isn't charity, it's justice. Giving charity to those don't deserve kindness in the eyes of justice is true charity.
Justice gives you what you deserve. Charity and mercy give you what you need no matter what.
The lesson was specifically about helping those who may be in bad situations because they made poor choices. People who spent their money unwisely or didn't plan ahead. Justice owes them nothing, but mercy and the charity that is the pure love of Christ owes them everything.
The second big thought of the day:
DO IT NOW
You don't need to wait for a law or a sign from God to do good things now. Help now. Care now. Act now.
If you're standing around thinking, "I'll love everyone when I get to heaven..." No you won't.
If you can't care about people now, God showing up on your doorstep won't change your heart.
There are people hungry right now. There are people in need right now. There are people who need love right now.
Do it now.
Don't wait for a burning bush or having enough to retire to do good.
You don't need to win the lotto to end world hunger, you need to donate to the local food pantry, vote for social reform, and carry an extra bag of food and water on your commute for the unhoused person you see at the corner each day.
We have enough food and money to go around. If everyone just helped the people they saw, just gave a little bit that they could spare, we could end world hunger in a year.
There's nothing stopping you from doing good today.
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ilona-mushroom · 3 months
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Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.
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psychronia · 20 days
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Isekai Prompt 16
A Hero from a fantasy world is reborn in our modern world. While modern conveniences impressed them at first, they're appalled by the injustice in the world.
Fortunately, they kept all of their abilities as a Hero in this world, and now they're on a mission to try to reform society with nothing but the power to slay demon lords.
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in0ctobercountry · 21 days
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krisje3 · 3 months
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Happy New Year to you! We’ve been getting off to a good start this year. There are no resolutions to feel guilty about – “I am enough” may be my next best mantra. The Bride and Groom have returned unscathed and refreshed from a trip to New Zealand and Australia with the Grands. And the Rocker and Aunt Cait returned from the East Coast, totally missing that rogue wave in Cali. And if you’re…
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tabernacleheart · 8 months
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...The best way to reform society is to reform ourselves. There is of course a great deal done in our own day to reclaim the vicious, to succour the poor, and so on; and nothing is to be said against these efforts when they are the outcome of a humble and sympathising charity. But they are very often adulterated with a spirit of condemnation and a sense of superiority, which on closer inspection is found to be unjust. [In illustration of this, In John 8, the] scribes and Pharisees, when they dragged this woman before Jesus, felt themselves on quite another platform than that which she occupied; but a word from Christ convinced them how hollow this self-righteous spirit was. He made them feel that they too were sinners even as she, and none of them was sufficiently hardened to lift a stone against her. This is creditable to the Pharisees. There are many among us who would very quickly have lifted the stone. Even while striving to reclaim the drunkard, for example, they arraign him with an implacable ferocity that shows they are quite unconscious of being sharers in his sin. If you challenged them, they would clear themselves by vehemently protesting that they had not touched strong drink for years; but do they not consider that the almost universal intemperance of the lowest class in society has a far deeper root than individual appetite; that it is rooted in the whole miserable condition of that class, and cannot be cured till the luxuries of the rich are by some means sacrificed for the bitter need of the poor, and the rational enjoyments which save the well-to-do from coarse and open vice are put within reach of the whole population? Poverty, and the necessity it entails of being content with a wage which barely keeps in life, are not the sole roots of vice, but they are roots; and so long as we ourselves, in common with the society in which we live, are involved in the guilt of upholding a social condition which tempts to every kind of iniquity, we dare not cast the first stone at the drunkard, the thief, or even their more sunken associates. No one man, and no one class, is more guilty than another in this great blot on our Christianity. Society is guilty; but as members who happen by the accident of our birth to have enjoyed advantages saving us from much temptation which we know we could not have stood, we must learn at least to consider those who in a very real sense are sacrificed for us. Among certain "savage" tribes, when a chief’s house is built, slaughtered slaves are laid in pits as its foundation; the structure of our vaunted civilisation has a very similar basement. Still it is one of the most hopeful features of present-day Christianity that men are becoming sensible that they are not mere individuals, but are members of a society; and that they must bear the shame of the existing condition of things in society. Intelligent Christian men now feel that the saving of their own souls is not enough, and that they cannot with complacency rest satisfied with their own happy condition and prospects if the society to which they belong is in a state of degradation and misery. It is by the growth of this sympathetic shame that reformation on a great scale will be brought about. It is by men learning to see in all misery and vice their own share of guilt that society will gradually be leavened. To those who cannot own their connection with their fellow-men in any such sense, to those who are quite satisfied if they themselves are comfortable, I do not know what can be said. They break themselves off from the social body, and accept the fate of the amputated limb.
William R. Nicoll
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indizombie · 2 years
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The assertion by the individual of his own opinions and beliefs, his own independence and interest — as over against group standards, group authority, and group interests — is the beginning of all reform. But whether the reform will continue depends upon what scope the group affords for such individual assertion. If the group is tolerant and fair-minded in dealing with such individuals, they will continue to assert [their beliefs], and in the end will succeed in converting their fellows. On the other hand if the group is intolerant, and does not bother about the means it adopts to stifle such individuals, they will perish and the reform will die out.
'Annihilation of Caste', Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
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