Nobody asked, but: tonight Italy plays Germany in #WinterOlympics men's #curling and, as a reminder of the complexity of #nationalIdentity, I, an Italy-born German citizen, contrary to what I mostly do in sports, will side with Italy!
Nobody asked, but: tonight Italy plays Germany in #WinterOlympics men's #curling and, as a reminder of the complexity of #nationalIdentity, I, an Italy-born German citizen, contrary to what I mostly do in sports, will side with Italy!
"Is Bridgerton Sci-Fi? "
#Afrofuturism
#SpeculativeFiction
#ScienceFiction
#AlternateHistory
#HistoricalFiction
#CostumeDrama
#reframe
#genre
#romance
#fantasy
#BlackFedi
#classism
#racism
#sexism
#BIPOC
#fashion
#Regency
#anthropology
#ShondaRimes
#AlexBeightol
#AnotherWorldIsPossible
#Race
#SocialConstruct
#colonialism
#caste
#empire
#OctaviaButler
#ParableOfTheSower
#VeronicaTucker
#Bridgerton
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vXu9MGt2TLg

Racism: Nature’s Influence on Societal Constructs #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwiU5aVbhY1cI22Z0tmhMxQ
Is racism a social construct or something deeper? It explores the separation and what fills the gap. The discussion dives into the roots of division and its impact. #racism #socialconstruct #ideology #separation #equality from Iris of my I
Is #Monogamy Natural or Just a #SocialConstruct? So what’s the deal?
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/is-monogamy-natural-or-just-a-social-construct/
#ChatGPT is a more successful penny-farthing; a video essay:
https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ
#ChatGPT #AI #llm #GenerativeAI #AIChatbot #AIEthics #AISafety #OpenAI #Anthropic #SCOT #sociology #Bijker #BigTech #Constructionism #socialconstruct #VideoEssay
Because ALL crime and punishment is #political. And power isn't held to the same standard as the rest of us.
#Wagetheft (employer cuts time illegally from worker time cards) is the largest theft type, even when adding all other theft together.
Steal $100 from the register? You get arrested and criminal matter.
Employer steals from employee $100 by manipulating time cards? Oh that's a civil matter. Hope you can afford a lawsuit and loss of your job.
Murder is also a #socialconstruct.
If you poison someone else and they die, its murder.
If you make policy that leeches lead and poisons a whole city, and kills many, you get a governorship in Michigan, and a fellow at Harvard.
One of the most telling parts of the horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeting #Smithsonian is its defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.
The funny thing about social constructs is that they bring two distinct meanings of the (extremely problematic) term "objective" into direct conflict.
Specifically, the meaning of 'objective' that is "existing intrinsically, plainly detectable, clearly segmentable from its immediate environs, etc. etc." and the meaning of 'objective' that is "agreed upon by all members of a group, etc. etc."
What makes a social construct a construct is that it has no physical particulars, is not plainly detectable, cannot be clearly segmented away from its immediate environs (if it can even be said to have immediate environs), i.e. it is not an 'objectively existing entity', and in fact it's entire existence consists of the 'objective' agreement or objectively held belief that it exists.
So, that's what humans are like, if you were wondering why things are shit.
Humans are all about those 'objectively' non-existing 'objective' existences.
Ugh.
p.s. in case you were wondering, both those senses of 'objective' are pretty much bollocks.
#objective #socialConstruct #borders #nation #Institution #law #philosophy @philosophy