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Alex Turrall
@ImReadinHere
Education promoter and independent researcher. Essays for @LiberatedTexts and @EbbBooks
Joined August 2010
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    It's here! And you can find my essay on zionist propaganda in British education just after Mahmoud Darwish (a sentence I didn't think I'd say). By @Ebb_Magazine and for Palestine 🔻🇵🇸
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    The child's school day is structured exactly like an adults work day. 8 hour day, 15 minute break at 10.30 and, 45 minutes for lunch. In the class they must remain focused, still, and "productive" for nothing in particular outside of arbitrary exams and "age range" goals
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    "Is it not violent for a child to go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world? I think that is violent. But that type of violence is so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life. Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal..." - Kwame Ture
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    Whiteness is a social relation based on property. When white people defend private property they are defending whiteness. The violence of capitalism is the violence of whiteness
    omfg white people are lining up to defend the south philly target! i’m dead
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    Liberals want people to vote for Biden as "harm reduction" so they can go back to pretending Trump is the only thing wrong with America
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    Biden in 1997 saying that the only thing that could provoke a "vigorous and hostile" Russian response would be if NATO expanded as far as the Baltic states
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    “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” - Winston Churchill
    "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill
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    "Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." - Edward Said
    .@POTUS: “Every other nation you can define by their ethnicity, their geography, their religion, except America. America was born out of an idea.”
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    Engels on the deal the rich make with the poor: “If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery.”
    Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, just donated $98.5 million to help the homeless on.forbes.com/60101PpGm by @AngelAuYeung
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    Hardly a day goes by where I don't think about this
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    What if we understood "fidgeting", "doodling", "tapping", and "daydreaming" in the classroom as children's mental and physical rejection of the alienating process of schooling?
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    It so wild this scene literally admits that communism gets all the answers right through collective and mutual cooperation yet the conclusion is somehow that its a bad thing and should be ridiculed
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    A man carrying his child's body parts in bags, a child blown to pieces and hanging from a wall, starving humans mown down as they get food aid, a person tied down and flattened by a tank. I dread to think what we haven't seen. There is no language to adequately describe this evil