"Student placed his eye in the trajectory of a projectile. Lawyer hints his showing up might be responsible"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html

Here is an example of the method of Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt:

#responsibility #safety #NYT #professionalism #institutionsDeceive #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #doubt #FUD #press #reporting #journalism #protesting #protests #NoKings

Solutions on offer are false and distracting. A prime motive is to augment piloting by financial institutions.

A huge problem of institutional "solutions" is that they tend to delay the systemic changes needed to adapt to the climate catstrophe. "This mini-series will give you the evidence, talking points, and tools to push back and promote genuine, lasting solutions to the debt and climate crises:" https://www.eurodad.org/false_and_distracting_finance_solutions_debt_and_climate_mini_briefs

#transition #renewables #energyTransition #institutionsDeceive #COP30

Larry Achiampong and David Blandy explore the impact of eugenics, scientific racism and Black resistance: https://web.archive.org/web/20250930203332/https://www.bcaexhibits.org/exhibits/challenging-the-narrative via @FINOkoye

#historyOfScience #science #raceMaking #institutionsDeceive #racism

‘The schoolteacher does not inquire when she questions a pupil, any more than she informs when she teaches a rule of grammar or arithmetic. She “teaches”, she gives orders, she commands.’

And, we might add, she assigns, as we read further on:
‘The apparatus of compulsory education does not communicate information, but imposes semiotic coordinates on the child with all the dual bases of grammar (masculine-feminine, singular-plural, subject of the statement-subject of the utterance, etc.). The elementary unit of language is the instruction.’

(Deleuze, Guattari, 1980, pp. 95-96)

#educate #obey #obedience #beliefs #school #education #imagination #training #institutionsDeceive #learn #learning #teaching #teach #adultDomination #teachers #Deleuze #Guattari #language #semiotics #domination

So here is more for you @geriruth

At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:

"I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."

#teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers

"The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: https://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm

#obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers

'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
• Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
• Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
• Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

'Why This Has Consequences

'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
[…]
'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

https://www.agustinvstartari.com/post/who-gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker by @agustinstartari

#responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros

“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

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#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking