social awareness

Oppress me. Is it possible? Can you oppress me right now?

Context:
The guy I’m dating (Ken) had said he was frustrated with the Austin School District teachers that he’s teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to because they were all giving wrong answers to the question, Who is the oppressor in your classroom? According to Ken, and apparently according to the book the teachers had been assigned to read, the oppressor in a classroom is the teacher.

Last night I was telling my friend Arun about it and he said Oppress me! Right now!

All of this post is rooted in my discomfort with the premise that all teachers are oppressors in their classrooms. I can see the roots of truth of it, but making that its own conclusion point looks wildly flawed to me.

id like to learn more about juneteenth. can you guys share it?

Most of us have Community-Neglect. Common understanding that childhood emotional neglect is extremely damaging to a child.

Emotional neglect occurs when caregivers fail to provide the emotional support, validation, and attention children need during their formative years.

I would argue most of us also experienced childhood community neglect. We had inadequate community to provide the needs that traditional, healthy communities did: Rites of Passage, healthy modeling of different masculine/feminine archetypes, wide social support net, etc etc.

In my teens/20s/early 30s, the ideal was to be a passive income, world nomad. Now, I see a lot of people wanting to create intentional communities or ecovillages.

Most of these will fail because I think they never experienced a direct transmission of a healthy, working community. Just like a person who grew up with severe emotional neglect is going to have a hugely hard time with personal relationships.