jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

ancient greece 1.0 (+3,00)

this is (not) sparta

@Wewereseeds My favorite part of that whole episode was when they won the vote to not ban capitalists/capitalist enforcers they all rage quit anyway cuz they didn't understand the concept of the 80-20 model

who's a good boy? tell us. we got the dirt on you. if you cooperate and tell us who the good boy is, maybe you'll get a good deal.

@JohnBrownJr Hey, could you pick me up a jar of transphobe teeth while you're out?

flomp

loaf

cronchy bones

The radical worker politics of the Los Angeles teacher strike - #UTLAstrong #LAUSDstrike Read here --> https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/01/20/the-radical-worker-politics-of-the-los-angeles-teacher-strike/

@sophia f$#k the haters and *splainers... as a matter have u tried any of the #BSD oses... i used linux for years... but i regret not trying other oses more when i was younger... xfce snd openbsd work very well together ... dont let snyone grind you down... keep at it ...

@sophia misogyny is a hell of a drug. It is profoundly obvious that you are better at computers than me.

@AnndraADunn I went to a French school, plenty of students wear crosses because they have been ruled as "not conspicuous". In order to be "conspicuous" enough, a Christian symbol would have to be like, monk's robes or something

The end!

Believe it or not, that thread turned out shorter than I expected, probably the first time that's ever happened. As always, please please please send your thoughts, criticisms, and questions my way!!!

Thank you so much for reading, I love you all ❤️

The difference between symbolic and material violence is in the method. The effects of symbolic violence are just as material, because we are our bodies and our bodies are material. The unmaking of our minds is the unmaking of the bodies our minds are.

From an (especially enlightened) white leftist perspective, the ban on the veil is a symbolic attack on people's ability to practice their faith without shame or government intervention, and an excuse for cops to brutalise Arabic women.

For the women who have to experience it, it is a forced, violent alteration of their very ability to be in a body, which is to say to be anyone at all.

Outlawing the veil, first in schools, then in a specific form, and eventually perhaps as a whole, was not a new idea. It was the reintroduction of an old idea in a (barely) new context.

The balieues in which Arabic and Black people live pretty much in isolation, presided over by a white police force, are the direct descendants of occupied Algeria. Re-banning the veil is the logical step to take for these white occupying forces.

What I want you to take away from this thread are three different things:

1. Read Fanon.

2. The strategies of racism in liberal democracies are the direct evolution of the racism which was developed during the era of overt colonialism.

3. These strategies, while they distance themselves from physical violence, perpetuate a violence which is just as real, whose effects are just as physical.

This passage is very reminiscent of Fanon's description -- in his first book, Black Skin, White Masks -- of the way his own perception of his body and ability to control it (what he calls the "corporal schema") was altered when he was called the N-word for the first time.

"The absence of the veil distorts the Algerian woman's corporal schema. She quickly has to invent new dimension for her body, new means of muscular control."

"When the Algerian woman is about to cross the street, for a long time she misjudges the length of the distance she needs to travel. The unveiled body seems to escape, disappear into bits. A feeling of being badly dressed, or naked. A sense of incompleteness experienced with great intensity. The anxious feeling that something is unfinished. A frightful sensation of disintegrating."

This is what Fanon, who was a psychiatrist in Algeria and thus treated Algerian women, describes:

"One must have heard the confessions of Algerian women or have analysed the dream content of recently unveiled women to appreciate the importance of the veil for the woman's experience of her body. Without the veil she has an impression of her body being cut up into bits, put adrift; the limbs seem to lengthen indefinitely."