Zompist Bboard Again

I hate academics and college-educated people acting oppressed when it cannot be further from the truth. In particular, i hate the assumption disdain or even criticism against the ivory tower is a cause for anti-intellectualism, no matter what is being said or what the speaker is doing to learn how t...

I see what you're getting at, but the problem is comparing psyche xenophobia to institutional xenophobia. The two are not the same, but I'd say they're usually very interconnected. While there might be a moral or ethical difference between the xenophobia (used here in what you describe as the broad...

I see what you're getting at, but the problem is comparing psyche xenophobia to institutional xenophobia. I'm not exactly worried about sentiment, i'm worried more about their concrete cause being that of essentialistic punishment; fighting for opppression but with them leading. Plus, it can apply w...

It's a Venn diagram. Some people have used the fetishistic indigenity rhetoric as oppressors, such as Europeans turning away refugees; while non-cultural oppressed groups have declared essential grudges, like queer people calling for eternal punishment of non-queers. Maybe it deserves its own thread...

This one might deserve it's own thread, because i'm genuinely not trying to be contentious and it's about a detailed political topic. But i've already done that recently, so here goes. I'm kind of disturbed by how many people seem to fetishize* indigenity Settler states are awful and it's disgusting...

English is not my native language. I learned it by reading books. I'm better at math than languages anyway. I understand that. I guess i'd figure it would be more laborious to make ornamental writing than casual writing Here's a ChatGPT summary of the second quote if it's hard to follow: No thanks,...

Just to get this out of the way, please do not get too ornamental with your language, I am trying to understand and life is too short to sift thru a lot of fanciful text. Quoting it from other people i understand, but they shouldn't have been writing in masturbatory registers either Marx thought peo...

Marxists think "rights" are post hoc justifications reflecting material power relations in society. When i said (human) rights, I meant as in "shoulds", ideals on what is the right way to do things; a prescription. I wasn't referring to encoded rights, or "mays", what ...

I meant that if they don't support human rights, what are their beliefs on the subject of undeserved cruelty instead?

See, that's the thing. A lot of people I'm complain about say their actions are part of human rights or that oppressor peoples are wholly exempt. I don't know what to call this tendency, but it intermingles in all movements and I'm sick of letting it pass. I mean, they're wrong, but that hasn't sto...

See, that's the thing. A lot of people I'm complain about say their actions are part of human rights or that oppressor peoples are wholly exempt. I don't know what to call this tendency, but it intermingles in all movements and I'm sick of letting it pass.

I would rather remove the US hegemony by directly toppling it, not having additional hegemonies to "counterbalance". Did you know there's plenty of cases where each power cooperates, even if that's not their goal in the long run?

I wish I could make more of my conlangs without being bogged down in aesthetics, usually of the orthography. One one hand, aesthetics are kind of the drive of any art. I certainly am not doing conlangery to make a point. On the other, I feel this weird guilt even doing it for a fictional language, f...

I was going to put this in the Venting Thread, but I realize this is better off on its own. The notions of oppressor and oppressed are too often framed as essential or unchangeable categories, meant to purify the planet based on passive privilege rather than active abuse. No, I do not enact punishme...

Question: What vowel does everybody have in the words HANG, ANGLE, PINK, BAG, BEG, BIG, VAGUE, and CRAIG? and do you normally raise lax front vowels before /g/ and /N/ (voiced velars)? How far do you raise them? Do you raise them enough to merge with another phoneme? HANG = /ɛ/, sometimes /æ/ when ...

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:18 pm

Starbeam wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:07 pm Update: got the accomodations! It's informal and not with any kind of record, but whatever works

Hm - congratulations?

I mean, accommodations are accommodations. Honestly, it prevents a lot of paperwork that wouldn't matter

Update: got the accomodations! It's informal and not with any kind of record, but whatever works

Thanks Raphael

They got back to me, says we're going to elaborate in person. I hope I get what I want, because I need less stress in my life. I need this so badly. I am scared of them using this to bring up times I've screwed up so they can discipline me, or even nothing getting across.

Sent an ask to my job asking for some accommodations for my disabilities (autism, anxiety). Just not having too many days in a row (I work part-time, about 32 hours), and being away from the louder positions. I really hope I get them, it would really make my life a lot better. My supervisor is a chi...

Frankly, I find it perverse to own original mastercopies unless you are the author or a trusted archivist or loved one. Everything else in Raphael's rant is right

I'm not going to read Benjamin's essay or use its German title, but I feel like i'd agree with it if i did