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and if it has inequities, we should strive to eliminate them, yes? shouldn't someone who benefits from those inequities be obligated to help those who are harmed by them?

sure! facts like: - unfair power structures disproportionately harm those without power - including everyone in decisions about the allocation resources is an effective way to solv…

the kids who had control of the Lego had a set of rules. other kids didn't have a say. the Lego was taken away so it wouldn't distract from the discussion, and then all the childre…

oh no we taught the kids to share and now they're starving and the classroom has collapsed

have you ever worked with young children? the method you propose will lead to bullying and fights. there needs to be some moderation.

maybe not. but children do experience power imbalances in their own lives, particularly when dealing with their peers. and it's valuable to learn how to identify them, and how to b…

> would teach that's... what they did teach. > How are kids to fight against the teachers? why would the kids need to fight the teachers???

to clarify: > "We’d audiotaped the discussion so that we’d be able to revisit it during our weekly teaching team meeting to tease out important themes and threads. The children’s t…

so you're acknowledging that our current political/economic system has built-in inequities? that playing by the rules is not a virtue in and of itself, especially if the rules caus…

except the children made the system. they decided on the rules that would apply to them. there is no "system" beyond their own agreement!

"reflecting on things that you've learned is indoctrination, actually"

except... it isn't? that's literally not what socialism or collectivism is. socialism is just the idea that "wealth" (or any substitute, like lego) should be owned by the community…

Setting a Linux process to a "realtime" priority (using SCHED_FIFO, etc.) will put above all non-RT /userspace/ processes. But doing that still means that the kernel can preempt yo…

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