There’s that Kabbalistic ‘tree of life’ diagram hanging in this office.

17 hours ago  /  2 notes

I will never understand how anyone can talk of ‘thunder thighs’ as if they were bad things.

19 hours ago  /  2 notes

I’m very surprised that given Kierkegaard’s famous beef with Hegel, no one’s done any comparative work on K and Marx, using each one’s critiques of Hegel and Feuerbach to map out points of convergence and divergence.

Maybe this is a thing I should do.

1 day ago  /  2 notes

Michelle Obama told black youth to stop aspiring to be rappers and ball players

newfilosophia:

thenoobyorker:

how-apropos:

Fuck youuuuuuuu

Damn.

Did she really? Because that’s the only people Obama hangs out with.

This is pretty bad, and sort of irrelevant because she was speaking at a predominantly black university, like, full of people who don’t aspire to be rappers or ball players.

Teachers at the school I sub for often complain that the black kids don’t care much for education, or at least less than for sports and music.  But imagine you’re a black kid, and you look out into the world - barring the POTUS, where do you see most black people in power and making money?  The sports and music industries - and even then, it’s mostly black men.  Black girls and non-binary black kids have it doubly, triply, infinitely tougher.

This isn’t merely some bootstraps problem, and I’m more than sure our FLOTUS knows that.  This was a really shitty way to address (ignore) issues of systemic racism.

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