I see this instance has a nicelong character limit for posts.
I have a Ph.D. in Human Science (2016, Saybrook University), which is about the experience of being human in social contexts. It is the mother of the social sciences but is now, at least in the English speaking world, and at least as far as I can tell, a dead field.
In #kyriarchy, I mostly focus on #classism and #ageism, but since arriving in Pittsburgh, have been confronted with blatant #racism (and yes, many white people here do see it). But #SocialJustice has to be for everybody; to focus on any one identity, to the exclusion of others, is nothing more than to elevate that identity over that of the predominantly wealthy white males who are now in charge.
Human beings have #HumanRights. These rights are not constrained by their governments' failures to ratify certain human rights treaties.
#Borders exist to mark off territory controlled by elites whose competition accounts for most if not all wars and to deny human beings on the "wrong" side of an arbitrary line rights and privileges available on the "right" side. This cannot be justified ethically. I am hostile to #xenophobia
Finally, I am pessimistic about the future of humanity. #COVID19 and the #ClimateCrisis demonstrate our unfitness for survival.
This is an addition to my self-introduction which is now pinned to my profile..
As COVID-19 (notice the intentional omission of a hashtag) seems to be on yet another upswing, it's worth repeating that we had an opportunity to contain and defeat this virus. In our haste to resume #capitalism, we blew off that opportunity.
We have collectively decided that the great god #capitalism demands and should receive human sacrifice. We have also collectively decided that COVID-19 is "over." Those are not my decisions and not decisions I'd have made. But we made them.
People will die who didn't need to die. People will suffer who didn't need to suffer. Long COVID will affect more people.
I understand all that. And I have kept up on the vaccinations. But I am not going back to wearing a mask except in places that specifically require them. I am not participating in or tolerating the hype over the resurgence. Because we decided we were going back to "normal" despite ample evidence to the contrary. Evidence simply does not matter and, on COVID-19, this is nearly as true for the political left as it is the right.
Humanity's response to COVID-19 demonstrates our unfitness for survival, right along with our response to the #ClimateCrisis. And frankly, in view of how this society has treated me my entire life, I welcome human extinction.
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