Slop.

What does that have to do with masks

It's so funny how sometimes, a subreddit (or any fan forum in general) can have wildly different beliefs than the OG creators, like, just take Hexbear for example.

: Uh, Bernies cool, I guess.

: KILL ALL SLAVE OWNERS.

i don't think she's even doing that. note this part:

They show more empathy IRL in spaces they’re recruiting in [emphasis mine]

it seems clear to me from her words that she doesn't like that this was her experience, that "leftists" have not been as willing to try to accommodate her while recruiting. and that shows part of why they've been effective in radicalizing people. as long as you're not against them (and you're not visibly not white or not hetero), they're willing to try to get you to be with them.

hence they are able to effectively radicalize ppl.

She had a completely exceptional experience with fascists making an accomodation for her disability and made the mistake of assuming that experience was representative of the right.

They are really good at doing that, it's like they can smell when someone is vulnerable and easy to influence and will play nice in this one instance in order to trick people into thinking they aren't absolute scumbags.

DSA worse than Hitler confirmed

I think a lot of her critics are arguing against her as if she was saying the fascists are more correct than the left because of this, but what she's saying is that the left easily can and should change this one thing so more people can get organized.

There is not yet a body of research that supports either side of this argument, and there might not be, since much of the research this professor was conducting is now dead due to Trump DEI policy.

What is true, and what we know for sure, is the capitalist wants the phone and tablet in a child's hand as early as possible. Google wants Chromebooks in schools to make students dependent on their tools. Apple wants the same and are less successful at it. Meta wants a comprehensive psychological profile of the child to hyper target products and reproduce capitalist social values in the minds of children. They want to be the 3rd and most permissive parent in the home. They want your child engaging with AI so they can use it as a wedge in the privatization of education. They undoubtedly see the phone, the tablet, and the internet at large as the single most influential and powerful tool for mass production and reproduction of culture. They want to read your inbox, your text messages, your voice calls, and mine them all for every ounce of insight into their psychological operations effectiveness.

I think it is completely reasonable to be of the position that less phone/tablet access is good. Especially since it would seem media consumption at a young age backdoors capitalist ideology into kids and shapes the way they understands the world. Considering that there has been a seriously uncritical implementation of technology in education, which I think is only now starting to change, I believe parents should petition their schools to take a more critical and proactive approach to device use, and that these prohibitions are actually not enough and parents should be demanding more oversight on the topic.

I've talked in the past about the fact that students live most of their academic life inside a panopticon, and in many ways I think this primes students to be uncritical and even embrace the surveillance state that we find ourselves in now. All of these forms of technology, under capitalist control, are part of the effort to shape and steer culture. There should be demands for schools to implement digital literacy programs coupled with a reduction in technology use, not just for students, but also for staff, administration, and faculty. One that recognizes technology as a potential tool, but that also highlights it's corrupting influence.

There really aren't lot of good reasons, actually. Ask folks who went to school before cellphones were ubiquitous, how crucial they actually are.

Emergency is the only reason, and even then the argument stands that there are responsible adults abound, sorta negating a cellphone for an emergency.

Yeah, I agree, they're almost definitely misrepresenting how she phrased her argument in that thread because they're talking about it like she said that kids should be allowed to spend all class on their phones if they feel like it. I don't know what she originally said, maybe I just shouldn't comment on it at all because I CBA to go to twitter or whatever to find it.