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I want to learn more about radical pedagogy. Doesn't have to be radically leftist: stuff like Montessori is really cool.

Looking for articles or book excerpts or videos or podcasts or anyone here with a left-wing perspective on the African Union. I can make assumptions about its role but I'd rather have a more concrete understanding about what it exists to do, whose interests it primarily serves etc.

My main questions are:

• Which countries dominate it?
• Is it configured towards serving local, native interests or the interests of the imperialist west?

Thanks

No commentary here. I just think we should find more comrades and bring them into our fold. How do we do it? Post your ideas, no matter how wild. Maybe someone will see it and get inspired and make something happen.

I know that it's Chinese and it translates roughly as "white/Western left." Looking it up on the Chinese wiki, Google translate gives me... well, this:

It is used to describe people who support policies such as the abolition of the death penalty , [ 3 ] animal protection , environmental protection , body equality , skin equality , LGBT , feminism , vegetarianism , marijuana decriminalization , euthanasia , abortion and immigration , that is, people with cultural leftist ideas in the European and American world.

This paints baizuo as something akin to American conservative terms like "woke" or "SJW." On the other hand, I've seen baizuo on Hexbear a few times, but in those contexts it seemed to mean something closer to "succdem" or "Western chauvinist" rather than the definition above. Obviously, a term used to insult feminists, LGBT people, and environmentalists would be incredibly out of place on this site, hence why I'm asking about it rather than taking a machine-translated Wiki article at face value.

More precisely, I remember reading that the Red Army had issued the death penalty for r*pists in its own ranks and would like an academic/“serious” source to corroborate this and possibly even how rigorously this was enforced. Thanks!

Please send pictures of it

Is there a more common term for that? I think it's a huge problem in polling. I googled and I didn't make much progress. I found this...

Expressive Responding in Support of Donald Trump: An Extended Replication of Schaffner and Luks (2018) | Collabra: Psychology | University of California Press

There is considerable debate about whether survey respondents regularly engage in "expressive responding" – professing to believe something that they do not sincerely believe to show support for their in-group or hostility to an out-group.

The problem is that "expressive responding" is a technical term. At Wikipedia I searched for "expressive responding" (in double quotes) and I got zero results.

Of course that mental mindset is big deal when it comes to Trump. A recent example - Lots of Republicans suddenly think the economy wasn't that bad after all. There's not exactly a "debate" when it comes to Trump and republican voters. They always do it when Trump is involved. It's not a coincidence that the election always causes a rapid change in what they say they believe.

Need to listen to more Spanish!

Would greatly prefer LatAm over Spain

And not just straight like daily/weekly news

I listen and watch more in Spanish than English at this point just need a podcast to round things out

Literally any mention of some supposed 'western civilization' or 'western culture'. Like just say the 14 words already, cause we all know that's what you believe in. Fucking coward

His diet is horrid. He only eats McDonald's, and maybe KFC, but i'm not too sure. He only drinks coca cola. He's probably being pumped full of every fucking drug imaginable. There's no way in hell this man is not on his death bed

I swear to fucking god, HR exists to stand between me and my money.

Placed with my son for adoption, and I need to put him on my insurance rolls since he's no longer eligible for Medicaid. But he's not officially adopted yet, so my company won't put him on my plan. Meanwhile, I'm being told he's not covered by Medicaid anymore either.

And when I've got a dozen doctor's visits a month for all his preemie care, these bills are going to pile up fast.

Fuck this stupid backwards broken system and its iron curtain of bureaucracy keeping me from what I'm due.

Not asking for any specific purpose, just that it'd suck if all that was lost because threw a tantrum.

The redirect part being toward appreciation of workers' efforts and accomplishments despite their corporate circumstances

I personally can't see it as anything other than being a lackey for cops.

i ask this as a half indian guy from the US. I don't particularly find white women attractive and none of the indian dudes in my friends circle worship them like we are depicted as doing. its so dumb

God lol, white mayo people are so vain.

Yes guys we all worship you and cant get enough of everything about you, including white women / big S

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6292756

let's give each other something to cry about that heals instead of hurts ❤️ what silly thing makes happy tears spring up in your eyes?

awards ceremonies always get me, no matter how mundane – I was the weird 4H mom applauding and wiping away tears about every kid, not just her own 😂🙃

love seeing someone open a gift they're genuinely super excited about

commercials often get me, too

Like being able to read Arabic without understanding what it says

My chair suddenly started lurching precariously from side to side, and when I took a closer look I noticed this inner ring around the cylinder that keeps the chair centered had popped out and vomited a bunch of grease everywhere.

I can push this thing back in and it'll sort of click into place but a few minutes of sitting later the chair starts wobbling again.