EDIT: Oh, ignore this. LJ isn't going anywhere and while I'm not actively posting, neither have I gone elsewhere. Grey :} March 25, 2014...My last 'thing' and then I'll bow out
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I'm still rethinking the LJ thing. I had Tumblr going for several months, but got fed up with the inserted ads and Tumblr trying to track my 'interests' as if I were a demographic. I finally deleted IT this week. (You have the 'ignore' feature you can use, but it stopped actually 'ignoring' each ad and it would allow them to post more each time--each movie, each company, each everything. Pissed me off!)
Right now, LJ is about the only place I can write and not be tracked on all levels as one is on other social media. I dunno.
But I agree with you. Schools need to learn to be inclusive without making it seem weird. For example, I tend to advocate as the young black man did on a PBS special this week: Let's get rid of Black History Month. Because EVERY DAY is "Black History", as well as "White History", "Oriental History", etc. And making it for only a special occasion like "it's month" only makes it stand out as "not quite really the same history as every other time of the month" and un-legitimises it.
all I had to do was see tumblr and it made me crazy :D it seems to mostly be quoting and requoting and re re requoting various things...I like to yap about my own doofy things :D Forget facebook and all those other sites, I HATE all that tracking crap and targeting crap.
And I've had the exact same thought about specific history or specific whatever months (like heart care month or womens issues month or whatever...) It should be everybody all the time. I can understand say, during chinese new year someone in a history or geography class do something special regarding China as a point of relevance, but to peg out only a certain time period and then ignore the rest of the year round seems counter productive...and it also excludes a lot of smaller groups who don't have thier "special snowflake" month in the sun.
I'm still rethinking the LJ thing. I had Tumblr going for several months, but got fed up with the inserted ads and Tumblr trying to track my 'interests' as if I were a demographic. I finally deleted IT this week. (You have the 'ignore' feature you can use, but it stopped actually 'ignoring' each ad and it would allow them to post more each time--each movie, each company, each everything. Pissed me off!)
Right now, LJ is about the only place I can write and not be tracked on all levels as one is on other social media. I dunno.
But I agree with you. Schools need to learn to be inclusive without making it seem weird. For example, I tend to advocate as the young black man did on a PBS special this week: Let's get rid of Black History Month. Because EVERY DAY is "Black History", as well as "White History", "Oriental History", etc. And making it for only a special occasion like "it's month" only makes it stand out as "not quite really the same history as every other time of the month" and un-legitimises it.
Grey :)
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And I've had the exact same thought about specific history or specific whatever months (like heart care month or womens issues month or whatever...) It should be everybody all the time. I can understand say, during chinese new year someone in a history or geography class do something special regarding China as a point of relevance, but to peg out only a certain time period and then ignore the rest of the year round seems counter productive...and it also excludes a lot of smaller groups who don't have thier "special snowflake" month in the sun.
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