"Pathologising structural criticism as anger, or as other negative emotional expressions from dispossessed community members, is easier than interrogating one’s own privilege and position within global power structures, especially when the realities that ‘there’s no such thing as meritocracy’ and ‘everything is political’ are both brushed off as matters of subjective opinion that require “nuance.”"
https://wrzky.com/pathologising-structural-criticism/
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⚡️ Battlefield 6 drops its 2026 roadmap, devs actually look like they're LISTENING to the community.
The plan is packed with long‑requested fixes and features: balance passes, fresh content and QoL changes aimed at healing the rough launch, but will a year of updates be enough to steer Battlefield 6 back to respectability, regain players' trust and erase the launch scars?
#SteamAndEpic #Battlefield #LISTENING #QoL #Launch #Respectability
The Irish republican "tradition’s hardest won insight is this: the legitimacy of a grievance does not depend on the respectability of its expression. Irish diplomats spent thirty years explaining this to British counterparts who insisted there could be no negotiation while the IRA was bombing, that calm discussion could not happen while the law was being broken, that to engage with the grievance was to legitimise the method. Those diplomats were right and the British were wrong. The Good Friday Agreement happened because enough people on both sides eventually accepted that the legitimacy of a grievance had to be addressed on its own terms, regardless of the respectability of its expression. That insight was built in Belfast and Derry, Dundalk and Crossmaglen and the H-Blocks, by people who counted the dead. It is the most important political idea Ireland has given the world in a century, and it belongs to the tradition I write from."
If you are looking for explanation and context for the last week in Irish politics, read this: https://forlouth.medium.com/the-money-is-not-there-b6422f996612
#respectability #militancy #activism #protests #Ireland #Republicans
Michael Parenti’s greatest contribution was not a single book or argument, but a stance: the refusal to flatter power, the refusal to forget history, the refusal to trade truth for respectability.
#parenti #politics #respectability #marxism #socialism #capitalism
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)
More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness
Unicursal RESPECTABILITY IS THE GREATEST OF ALL BLINDS Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/respectability-is-the-greatest-of-all-blinds/index
#propaganda #AleisterCrowley #respectability #greatest #blinds
"Why did body odor start grossing us out?"
By Leah Worthington: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/body-odor-history-business
#respectability #discrimination #reputation #marketing #history #smell #perfume #hygiene #distinction #distate #disgust
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