As someone coming from a humanities critical theory perspective who is scrambling to make a living it's always the same. The ignorant people are the ones making money and having a say in how the country is run in the end. It kind of pisses me off that that kind of person has that position. I could do that job. Much…

I know some cats in a similar situation (except that they were never recsued) and they were extremely shy and would attack humans when they came to close.

Hissing and attacking you?

what kind of behavior did your cat display and what did it take to get better?

Ever since the Schröder government I don't trust anyone who is still in either of those parties. You have blood on your hands. If you haven't left you are now right wing no matter how hard to prove that you are still with us.

Yep, I have a friend like that as well. Mid 60s upper middle class lady. She scares the shit out of me because she actually believes she is doing good with her neoliberal conservative ideology instead of contributing to so much suffering. In reality, right now. To low income people in her own city.

Yeah, see, my cousin is actually of the opinion that he is on the left. Just that he's the kinda male privilege, white privilege, able-bodied privilege, straight privilege kinda guy he doesn't see what's missing there.

My grandmother was raised in a Nazi family. One uncle was in the SS and they had his portrait up in the living room. In 1945 she was about 15,16,17. When she talks about that time she can't stop talking about the 'occupation' and the n*****s being everywhere. That's her most vivid memory from that time. The horrible…

I'm going to take a wild guess here that the town starts with an F.

No. We did talk about WWII/Holocaust from about 7th grade til the end but I think that's the way it should be.

I'm the kind of post-colonial, post-structuralist, feminist, marxist, critical studies type and I found it very odd to learn that all these mid 30s heavy metal listening computer geek male guys who study history and in my cousin's case archaeology have seriously never heard of anything relating to critical theory.

I once got into a bad e-mail conversation with the company Butlers because they sell a coffee mug with a golliwog like figure on it. The person I was dealing with refused to acknowledge that there was any problematic aspect within a colonization context within that...in the sense of "it is widely known that there is…

My father told me I shouldn't "always take things so seriously."

I think it's also quite interesting that Germans never discuss their involvement in colonialism. I can't remember ever talking about Namibia and Cameroon in school.

Yep, my male in his 30s cousin just used it the other day. He is also an arrogant sexist asshole though and possibly the most clueless person about any -isms I've ever met. Thinks he was god's gift to the world too.

My early 30s male privilege as can be cousin just yelled out the other day if he could finish the N*küsse. I haven't used that term since I was a kid and things started to change. But that cousin is a real prize...

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I do not like the new Kinja version.

People here often forget that class is important and that there are white and even white male people that are discriminated against.

When I tutor it's always such a mind fuck that they look so grown up and the girls usually look way older than me because they have that high heels and make up thing down and I look like a 14 year old except with graying hair and sometimes seem like normal people and then remember you that they are teenagers and dumb…