Everyone’s dunking on this but we remember that it’s pete wentz who writes fob’s lyrics, right? Pete wentz. So it’s not major events in modern history, it’s major events in modern history according to pete wentz.
Affirmative action was never about picking a black person for a college based on just being black. It doesn’t “take a spot” from deserving white people.
It acknowledges that unconscious bias will lead people to overwhelmingly discount POC candidates who are more than qualified. Their race is used to color all their accomplishments, and usually negatively. Also that race and racism affect how much access to a good education they have. Affirmative action attempted to negate that bias and allow access to POC who Are qualified and deserve a spot.
Meanwhile, without affirmative action, more of the most pathetic white boy rich kids will get into Harvard and totally think it was because they just worked really hard.
hey science side of tumblr, if you’re not on your union mandated lunch break, a question for you
when these resin casts are made and the top is sorta like, opaque (if that’s the right word) how come when the liquid resin is poured on top and then sets, that it becomes perfectly clear
Because of light refraction! Basically when you sand Resin casts (or in this case, from sanding the pinecones down) you wind up with an absolute fuckton of tiny scratches in the surface, and light that hits it bounces in all kinds of weird directions. But, since liquid resin can still bond with set resin, pouring a *very thin* layer of it over the top fills in the imperfections and makes the surface smooth like glass, so the light travels in a normal pattern again
I love reading a book you are slightly too stupid for
ways to keep reading despite feeling stupid because the tags you all keep adding have made me realize that my post is being used to self harm:
recognize that stupidity is a cultural concept leveraged against stigmatized populations who operate from devalued spheres of intelligence
notice feelings of panic and shame and frustration rising in your body when you encounter a difficult text, react to them like a loving friend who thinks you deserve to learn things
recognize the conditioning it takes to convince someone they are too stupid to deserve to learn things
go back and read a difficult text whose meaning and nuances escaped you the first time around after you read two or three more and the first one has had time to cook in your brain
open your brain’s mouth like a whale shark and cruise through the water digesting anything that gets caught in your filter plates
And sometimes you just won’t get it. You’ll turn it over in your head and you’ll poke and prod and reread and you won’t get it.
And that’s okay.
One of my most memorable reading experiences as a teenager was reading a novel called Sophie’s World. It’s a Norwegian “novel about the history of philosophy” and it was dense and complicated and confusing, but it was still so rewarding to read somehow. I still don’t understand most of the complicated philosophical concepts the book introduced, but just because I didn’t understand most of it doesn’t mean it wasn’t still interesting and entertaining. It doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything just bc i wasn’t smart enough to understand the whole thing.
And the same goes for all of you! Just because a book is over your head doesn’t mean you can’t still learn, or that your time reading it is wasted, or that you’re stupid. It just means that you’re not going to understand everything and there’s nothing wrong with that!
Have fun, and good luck with your reading! :)
Sophie’s World was mind blowing for my tiny 13yo brain as well and I did not understand most of the philosophy stuff. I think I read it like three times (and also a bunch of other jostein gaarder novels, they weren’t all that incomprehensible). There was a PC game based on Sophie’s World in which you played like Sophie iirc and you were taught philosophy through perhaps more accessible means. I never completed the game though
You are not stupid I promise. All the best books have layers of meaning that become opened to you only as you re-read them throughout life…
