“consumer privacy apathy is now bone-grafted to the DNA of global corporate culture“
“Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.”
An “Ashamed” Fox News Commentator Just Quit The “Propaganda Machine”
“It’s just taken a long time for public opinion to recognize and react to their institutional sociopathy.”
“While education is often held up as the antidote to poverty, it is quite possible that the opposite is the case. An education that is dependent on homework, especially if it requires expensive technology, may actually reduce social mobility.”
Source: Homework is a Social Justice Issue – Hybrid Pedagogy
The strong institutional racism in the U.S. doesn’t need IQ tests to perpetuate itself, but those tests play a role in ‘scientifically’ reinforcing the idea that certain groups are inferior, whether the causes are genetic or not.
No one can deny the inequality in outcome for many people of color in the U.S., but many deny that there’s any inequality of opportunity, or that white privilege and structural racism exist. If the U.S. then functions as a meritocracy of sorts, any inequality is supposed to spring from something else, such as lower I.Q.s.
Steele found that the “root of black achievement problems is failure of American schooling to meet this simple condition for many of its black students”: “treatment as a valued person with good prospects.”
Source: The full scope of racial devaluation on economic opportunity – Long View on Education
The message this sends to the CIA workforce is simple: Engage in war crimes, in crimes against humanity, and you’ll get promoted. Don’t worry about the law. Don’t worry about ethics. Don’t worry about morality or the fact that torture doesn’t even work. Go ahead and do it anyway. We’ll cover for you. And you can destroy the evidence, too.
“To build a United States government of the worst people, one must not merely be amateurish. It requires a special hatred for America to form a kakistocracy.”
Source: Jamil Smith: Betsy DeVos, Trump, Worst Government Possible, on Purpose – Rolling Stone
I updated Created Serendipity and Bringing Safety to the Serendipity in Digital Pedagogy with selections from Networks: An Engine For Scaling Learning And Innovation (Part 3) | DCulberhouse.
I updated The Pipeline Problem and the Meritocracy Myth with a selection fromWhite Supremacy Runs on Denying the Existence of White Privilege – Long View on Education.
“White supremacy runs on the staunch denial that white privilege exists, as if the deep inequalities in our world were simply the result of a meritocracy.”
Source: White Supremacy Runs on Denying the Existence of White Privilege
“To build awareness around accessibility issues with our existing features and interactions, I’ve been putting together demonstrations to show everyone else at the company how these elements are difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to use.”
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