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estelle

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Here I study a question: "How to subdue people?"
I discuss sociology of dominations and history of reputation.
(I purposely do not propagate news.)

Banner: sepia photo of a 26-year-old facing the camera – Hannah Arendt in 1933

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estelle, to college
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"Dear members of the University community,

"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.

“We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest

estelle, to mentalhealth
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The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.

🧶 @sociology @socialpsych

estelle, to random
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"Nothing alienates us from ourselves and the world more disastrously than to spend our lives, now almost constantly, in the company of these deceptively intimate beings, these phantom slaves whom we bring into our living room with a hand numbed by sleep - for the alternation of sleep and wakefulness has given way to the alternation of sleep and radio - to listen to the broadcasts in which, the first fragments of the world we encounter, they talk to us, look at us, sing to us, encourage us, console us and, without relaxing or stimulating us, set the tone for a day that will not be our own. Nothing makes self-alienation more definitive than continuing the day under the aegis of these apparent friends: for afterwards, even if the opportunity arises to enter into relationship with real people, we prefer to remain in the company of our portable chums, our portable buddies, since we no longer feel them to be ersatz people but real friends."

Günther #Anders, "The #Obsolescence of Man", 1956

estelle, to Humor
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If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.

On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.

estelle,
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Asking people to calm down protects privilege – and silences people who are hurting.

Tone policing: https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/

estelle, to feminism
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In 1910 in Copenhagen, the 2nd International Conference of Socialist Women adopted the idea of an "International Women's Day" from a proposal by Clara Zetkin (German Social Democratic Party), although no date was set.

The "Journal du CNRS" notes that "Women's Day was therefore the initiative of the socialist movement and not of the feminist movement, which was very active at the time". The historian Françoise Picq adds that "it was precisely to counteract the influence of feminist groups on the women of the people that Clara Zetkin proposed this day", rejecting "the alliance with the 'feminists of the bourgeoisie'": https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/journee-des-femmes-la-veritable-histoire-du-8-mars @histodons

estelle, to history
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Edith Margaret , born Edith Margaret Williams, was one of the first female martial arts teachers in Europe. She is known for training a unit of bodyguards in techniques for the Women's Social and Political Union, so that they could respond to physical attacks on them by some anti-feminist men.

@patriarchy

estelle, to random
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Here is an overview of how British rich nobility weaponised "race" to deport people in servitude.

Let's start with a landmark book:

estelle, to random
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Let's unwind a yarn of adult domination in film making 🧶

estelle, to history
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"An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet. Some 160,000 were detained in internment camps where torture was routine.

"One of Britain’s victims was US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who was arrested in 1949, and tortured by having pins inserted under his fingernails."

Kitson brought to Belfast his experiences in Kenya, fighting the Kikuyu Land and Freedom Army (exotically dubbed the “Mau Mau” by the British) in the early 1950s where he honed a practice of using “turned” or “converted” rebels into “counter-gangs”.

Anne Cadwallader: https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-general-who-terrorised-the-colonies/

estelle, to ukteachers
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"What Countries Need More Teachers and How Much Can You Make?" https://www.educationcorner.com/what-countries-need-more-teachers/

estelle, to uk
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How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper:
(2019) https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/

estelle, to Israel
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Let's popularise a bit 😋

Because I like to create stories, I'm starting a for you:

Episode 1: "Jew or Israelite?"

(The definition of is easy: "in the State of Israel". So it doesn't apply before 1948).

" may have one of two meanings: ethnic and religious/secular. Neither is linked to citizenship in Israel-Palestine.

estelle, to SmashBros
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"The Romans conquered the world through seriousness, discipline, organisation, continuity of vision and method; through the conviction that they were a superior race, born to command; through the well-considered, methodically calculated use of the most ruthless cruelty, cold perfidy and the most hypocritical propaganda, employed simultaneously or in turn; by an unshakeable resolution to always sacrifice everything to prestige, without ever being sensitive either to peril, or to pity, or to any human respect; by the art of decomposing under terror the very soul of their adversaries, or of putting them to sleep with hope, before enslaving them with arms; finally by such skilful handling of the crudest lie that they have deceived even posterity and are still deceiving us. "

Simone Weil, in "Some reflections on the origins of Hitlerism". @history

estelle, to humanrights
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In this article Sonia Boulos and Tamir Sorek discuss the policing of the use of the "Genocide" word.

"Abstract: Both societies, Israeli and Palestinian, harbor a collective trauma of annihilation and a national ethos of victimhood. While it is understandable that both sides see themselves as victims of genocidal acts in the current unprecedented wave of violence, when the term “genocide” is used in Western academia and public debates to describe the Israeli attack on Gaza, it is highly policed and is quickly associated with antisemitism. Considering that the Gaza Strip has lost almost one percent of its inhabitants while Israeli leaders use explicit annihilatory language, language policing surrounding genocide has become fatal for Palestinians."

https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/can-we-talk-about-genocide

estelle, to random
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The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:

  1. An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”

  2. An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:

"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"

  1. "The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."

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estelle, to politics
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"As conflation and confusion abound after 7 October, we need clear thinking about antisemitism"
by:
David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism,
Brendan McGeever, senior lecturer at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.

https://vashtimedia.com/2023/11/09/issues/antisemitism/hamas-israel-pogrom-antisemitism/

estelle, to Army
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Fox News, BBC videos show different number of guns at Al-Shifa Hospital than those published by Israeli army: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/cnn-suggests-weaponry-found-in-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-rearranged-by-israeli-army/3058274

estelle, to meta
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The CEO of , Mark , has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives to improve the wellbeing of teenagers on and , sometimes directly bypassing some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company:
https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-files-lawsuit-against-meta-instagram-for-unfair-and-deceptive-practices-that-harm-young-people

estelle, to IsraelPalestine
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University teachers suspended, employees sacked: in #israelPalestine, the authorities punish the slightest expression of support for Palestine on social media. In the course of a week, at least 170 people have been arrested for their online activities.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-war-political-persecution/

#war #CommOdon #Gaza #police #israel #repression #socialMedia #academic #972mag

estelle, to science
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"Science only treats nature as a set of objects, and as such will never be able to embrace the real in its entirety (which, as we have said, includes the objects, but also what renders them to be as objects)."

from Martin 's lecture "Science and Meditation", published in Essays and Lectures (in 1954), summarised by Etienne Klein https://etienneklein.fr/conferences-de-martin-heidegger/
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estelle, to ai
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"I was running a research group looking at the social implications of #AI. I was pretty well known in the company and outside as somebody who discussed these issues in ways that were counter to #Google’s public messaging. I was an internal dissenter, an academic.

Toward late 2017 I had a colleague flag me that there was a secret contract known as [#Maven] between Google and the Department of Defense [DOD] to build AI systems for drone targeting. That for me was when my organising started, because I realised I had been presenting very clear arguments that people agreed with… but it didn’t really matter. This was not an issue of force of argument. This was an issue of the ultimate goals of this company are profit and growth and DOD contracts were always going to sort of trump these intellectual and moral considerations."

— @Mer__edith #Whittaker
at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/11/signals-meredith-whittaker-these-are-the-people-who-could-actually-pause-ai-if-they-wanted-to #bigTech #capitalism #ethics @ethics #aiEthics @ai #safety @ecosocio

estelle, to psychology
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#Rationalism is a philosophical position or view that #reason is the source of knowledge.

Vernon J. #Bourke wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of #truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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#quotes #philosophy #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #factChecking #knowledge #publicOpinion #learning #sociology #wordsMatter #hashtags @psychology #TESCREAL

estelle, to Quotes
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What's the difference between being assertive & being aggressive?
Your gender
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Cartoon by Judy https://horacek.com.au/ via @ulrike https://the.curlybracket.net/2022/03/23/workshops.html

estelle, to Quotes
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“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes #mediaStudies #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history

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