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  • wraekscadu@vargar.orgtomemes@lemmy.world•Still right
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    11 days ago

    While teaching is an underpaid profession, and good teachers deserve A LOT of respect for what they do, it has to be said that many many horrible people become teachers.

    I’ve had my fair share of these people. Would throw them off a cliff if I could lol

  • wraekscadu@vargar.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it impolite to ask someone about their roots?
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    28 days ago

    So here’s the thing. I wouldn’t view it as impolite in all cases. It just… depends on the context a lot.

    I have no love for my cultural heritage at all. The reason I came to Canada was to get away from… all that, right? So if you’d ask me excitedly about my “roots”, I would give exceedingly one worded answers hoping that you’d drop the topic. I don’t want to glorify the culture I grew up in, because there’s nothing to glorify. Ah, now if you wanted to have a sociological discussion about it, I would be very interested in talking with you. So as I said, “context”, right?

    Often, racist white folk also tend to ask about “culture” as a sly way to remind non white folks that they “aren’t really Canadian” or whatever. Yeah, it makes no logical sense to do that, but well… It happens. So you know… It depends.

  • wraekscadu@vargar.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could magically form new nations, which would you break away or unify? (non-serious)
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    28 days ago

    Lemme explain the sensibility even when we use 1.a.1. I said the idea of a nation itself should cease to exist.

    An analog would be religion. If someone asked me, “what’s your religion?”. I would say, “I’m non religious”. I wouldn’t reply by saying, “my religion is atheism”.

    Similarly, if someone asked me what nation I belonged to, I would say something along the lines of “technically, I’m under the jurisdiction of XYZ state, but I do not identify as a member of any nation.”

    I’m hoping that this becomes the majority viewpoint. That’s how my answer is sensible even with 1.a.1.

    And as for “will inevitably rise within any sovereign state which will persist for a long enough time”, it’s not true necessarily. Example being myself and so many other people (anarchists, lib socialists, even right wing libertarians). Yes, it has been true throughout history (descriptive), but I’m hoping it isn’t going forward (normative).

  • wraekscadu@vargar.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could magically form new nations, which would you break away or unify? (non-serious)
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    30 days ago

    My bad. I incorrectly assumed that the above terminologies were common knowledge. I should’ve provided direct links. Well, here they are:

    Difference between nations and states

    Definition of a “nation-state”

    When I talk about nations and states, I talk from the perspective of these definitions. As you can see, they’re not really synonyms. It’s not squabbling about terminologies. If we have a different understanding of what different words mean, then our logical arguments are going to look very different. I’m not saying that your definition is wrong or whatever. I’m just clarifying how I define these terms in my arguments. That way, you can understand what I mean to say.

    As for the “questions” you posed… I’m not sure exactly what answers you want me to provide. I already told you that I do believe that states need to exist. We’re in agreement there. I just don’t think that it’s healthy for society to divide itself among different nations. Seems quite a waste of mental space, resources, etc. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯