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Changing Institutions: Common Sense, Complaint and Other Lessons in Legacy Feminist Thinking Seminar
Changing Institutions: Common Sense, Complaint and Other Lessons in Legacy
Speaker: Sara Ahmed
Organised by the Intersectional Humanities Research Hub
Feminist Thinking Seminar Series
Thursday 9 May 2024
'In my book, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, published over a decade ago, I explored how diversity is used by institutions as a way of appearing to doing something. The appearance of change can be a form of resistance to change. And yet, diversity is increasingly framed as forced change, an ideological imposition, or as compelled speech. Given these attacks on diversity and equality initiatives, it might seem that it is time to abandon our critiques of what diversity is not doing. One of my aims in this lecture is to show how these critiques give us the tools to explain and challenge what is going on. I will draw on two projects: the first on complaint; the second on common sense. For the former, I spoke to academics and students who had made or considered making complaints about abuses of power and inequalities within universities. I am now working on a new book A Complainer’s Handbook: A Guide to Building Less Hostile Institutions, in which I pull out the significance of this research for an understanding of institutional change. I will also draw on a new project on common sense. Common sense is increasingly appealed to as a legacy, an alternative to “wokeism,” and as an argument against institutional change.'
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April Fakes Day 2024
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April Fakes Day 2024
Voices of Resistance
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Voices of Resistance: Building Memory through the Struggles of the Collectives of the Families of Disappeared Persons in Guanajuato, Mexico. Voces de la resistencia: construyendo memoria a través de las luchas de los colectivos de familiares de Personas Desaparecidas en Guanajuato, México. This session examines the crisis of disappearances in Guanajuato, a state located in central Mexico, where...
Women & Online Television in Senegal - Screening of Mistress of a Married Man
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Chaired by Dr Estrella Sendra and Dr Alexandra Grieve St John’s Cinema Club and the African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network are excited to welcome Senegalese online television series screenwriter, director and producer Kalista Sy. The event will start with a brief introduction to Kalista Sy by Dr Estrella Sendra (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College...
Advancements and future directions in queer African studies, Seminar 2
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The African languages, literatures and cultures network (@AfCultures), Queer Intersections Oxford (@QIO) and Intersectional Humanities are delighted to invite you to two online research seminars on weeks 6 and 7 on Advancements and future directions in queer African studies Session 2: week 7, Thursday 29 February 2024 Organised by @AfOx visiting fellow, Gibson Ncube The two discussion will be c...
April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, University of Oxford.
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April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, University of Oxford.
April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, University of Oxford
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April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, University of Oxford
April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
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April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
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April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
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April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
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April Fakes Day: Professor Patricia Kingori, Oxford University
April Fakes Day a conversation with Professor Patricia Kingori Oxford University
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April Fakes Day a conversation with Professor Patricia Kingori Oxford University
Advancements and future directions in queer African studies, Seminar 1
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The African languages, literatures and cultures network (@AfCultures), Queer Intersections Oxford (@QIO) and Intersectional Humanities research seminar Organised by @AfOx visiting fellow, Gibson Ncube The two discussion will be chaired by Gibson Ncube and @AfCultures co-convenor Dorothée Boulanger This seminar series provides a dynamic platform for postgraduate students and early-career scholar...
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Young British Poets and Selected Poems of Sergio Raimondi
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Book at Lunchtime had the privilege of discussing two works of translated poetry - Young British Poets and The Selected Poems of Sergio Raimondi. We welcomed Ben Bollig, Professor of Latin American Literature & Film, Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, St Catherine’s College, Oxford and Alejandra Crosta (Medieval and Modern Languages and Literatures); and Mark Leech (poet and translator) to discuss th...
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: The Perils of Interpreting
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Book at Lunchtime welcomed Professor Henrietta Harrison (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) to discuss her highly acclaimed work The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translations between Qing China and the British Empire. "A book that thoroughly transforms what we know about Sino-British encounters leading up to the Opium War" (Jenny Huangfu Day, Journal of Chine...
Sleep, Insomnia and Wellbeing: Historical Perspectives
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Sleep, Insomnia and Wellbeing: Historical Perspectives
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Authorship, Activism and Celebrity
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TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Authorship, Activism and Celebrity
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria.
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TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria.
Narrative Intervention & Regional Dynamics in Southern Africa
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Narrative Intervention & Regional Dynamics in Southern Africa
Radical Music in Interwar Britain: Workshop Performance Recording
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Radical Music in Interwar Britain: Workshop Performance Recording
Temenos: Humanities Light Night. Radcliffe Humanities Building.
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Temenos: Humanities Light Night. Radcliffe Humanities Building.
Disordered Sleep, Past and Present 22 11 23 2nd version
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Disordered Sleep, Past and Present 22 11 23 2nd version
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
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TORCH Book at Lunchtime: The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Conquered
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TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Conquered
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: One Hit Wonders.
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TORCH Book at Lunchtime: One Hit Wonders.
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Courting India; England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire.
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TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Courting India; England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire.
Misaligned Hope and Faith in Healthcare
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Misaligned Hope and Faith in Healthcare
Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation (Part 4)
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Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation (Part 4)
Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation (Part 3)
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Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation (Part 3)
Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation (Part 2)
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Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation (Part 2)

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  • @DJFotele
    @DJFotele 5 днів тому

    albanians started migrating into greece in the 90s ? eehhh albanians are a part of the creation of greece, have many houndereds of settlements dating back to the 12th century and earlier. Stop treating albanians as if they came from another continent.

  • @supermavro6072
    @supermavro6072 7 днів тому

    “We used to speak Albanian and call ourselves Romans, but then Winckelmann, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Delacroix, they all told us, ‘No, you are Hellenes, direct descendants of Plato and Socrates,’ and that did it. If a small, poor nation has such a burden put on its shoulders, it will never recover (Published 2009)

  • @Fireflyorange
    @Fireflyorange 18 днів тому

    I had Dr. Rigoletto as my professor in CINE 350... it was definitely my favorite. good times

  • @barbarahourigan8462
    @barbarahourigan8462 21 день тому

    💜

  • @lekjaku7378
    @lekjaku7378 25 днів тому

    Dimitris Papanicolaou! You are marvelous!

  • @nilssonharrison
    @nilssonharrison Місяць тому

    This is my personal experience. Greeks are Chauvinistic? Ok. How could they not someone might argue. I've had a number of Albanians try to convince me that their language is the oldest, everything Greek was Pelagian or Illyrian. The Greeks gods are Albanian.... One of the 2 people has a huge inferiority complex.

  • @davidjack7820
    @davidjack7820 Місяць тому

    Amen.

  • @christofeles63
    @christofeles63 2 місяці тому

    Volume!!!!!!

  • @BEACHDUDE71
    @BEACHDUDE71 2 місяці тому

    It's too expensive to have children, it's not going to get better

  • @kruja1234w
    @kruja1234w 2 місяці тому

    I stayed 6 month in Greece in 1994 There was so much bad publicity in tv and everywhere about Albanians ,i came to that point i used to tell them i am vorioepiriot and i named my self Jorgo , I left that place and never went back Tough place to survive as an Albanian

  • @juliusmorris5233
    @juliusmorris5233 2 місяці тому

    Greek racist as fuck, just ask giannis

  • @prasantbanerjee8199
    @prasantbanerjee8199 2 місяці тому

    This is a rather quite unattractively presented audio tape. Avoid by all means if you can.

  • @sandrinen1333
    @sandrinen1333 2 місяці тому

    faut pas écouter cette individu

  • @NYC222
    @NYC222 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for this program. There should be generalized hunger in Spain for historical analyses of high quality, such as Preston's. The problem is that there isn't - only a minority wants to know the truth. The pity and the sadness about Spain is that one can still today (2024) speaks very meaningfully of a "betrayed people" - don't get me started. Las fosas de la vergüenza? This is the cause of international shame! I recommend Spaniards to be much more humble, reflect on their own History and try to learn a bit.

  • @objectparadise
    @objectparadise 3 місяці тому

    Should poetry exist? If so, whose? What role does the reader play in qualifying the work(s)? What about canon? The gatekeepers? What will AI do to poetry and poetics? If poetry is called poetry, is it poetry for others? Isn't poetry just a product of poetics? Does a static poetics, and thus a static poetry, exist? Whose art? Whose interpretation? Whose world? What function does the context play in the reception of language, the qualification of 'art'? Does art exist? Should it? Why and why not? Is art inevitable? Is miscommunication, exclusion, needed for one thing to be not the other thing? If art is inherently exclusive, what should we exclude? People? Or conventions? Or contexts outside of the now? Please answer these questions...we are trying to find the answer...

  • @beatkins2937
    @beatkins2937 3 місяці тому

    I know his granddaughter 😮

  • @nunomeireles3815
    @nunomeireles3815 3 місяці тому

    Ajax the Reaper

  • @Nubiandesert
    @Nubiandesert 3 місяці тому

    I don't know about racism in Greece. But for sure they invented misogyny and the hatred of women. And Glorification of homosexuality and pedophilia too.

  • @cmoran9103
    @cmoran9103 3 місяці тому

    The narrator keeps repeating "The myth of Berlin" but then the information they provide just reaffirms it. It might have been a limited experience, but Berlin was all the things these writers said it was.

  • @gily3535
    @gily3535 3 місяці тому

  • @aspencrest
    @aspencrest 3 місяці тому

    Mt Rainier is South of Seattle. (for the record). Also, it is not extinct. (still active)

  • @phipleemans9121
    @phipleemans9121 3 місяці тому

    Promo`SM 💕

  • @paulwhiston1836
    @paulwhiston1836 4 місяці тому

    Ive got a collection of the jordi badia Romero stuff, I don't know if there are more collections but this makes me want to read more but i don't really want to collect original issues as these poor quality paper comics tend to age badly and art bleeds through pages over time and other problems so I'd hope for a nice collection

  • @aimanrashid501
    @aimanrashid501 4 місяці тому

    11:00 Goethe and Eckermann

  • @Gooders478
    @Gooders478 4 місяці тому

    Why don't you corrupt woke bastards try reading a few books for a change instead of burning them.

  • @alexanderaleksandar2030
    @alexanderaleksandar2030 4 місяці тому

    Poor guy

  • @TORCHOxford
    @TORCHOxford 4 місяці тому

    This was a wonderful discussion and the authors and panel shared an astonishing array of insights about the book and their own research.

  • @annjoyce579
    @annjoyce579 4 місяці тому

    My birth name k.a.l.i given me by india labs drdo, barc. U.s government gave me alias at age 2 on 5aug1962. My nazi grandfather paid $5BILLION in gold to create, He hoped, a grandson. He truly, deeply loved His people.

  • @annjoyce579
    @annjoyce579 4 місяці тому

    Shyness is fearfulness. My respect for You. Join me if You're brave. Kali

  • @annjoyce579
    @annjoyce579 4 місяці тому

    I loved college, recorded each professor AND simultaneous wrote shorthand notes re-listened to professors' speeches and perfect grades. But on public video, you can either inform academically as on this video-- or focus on persuading on this video. Video was academic and lost persuasive quality. In brief persuasive attempt by me-- Golden Dawn nonfamily couple murdered my birth mother in front of me age 2, her bloody eyes exploded all over me from cyanide as she happily sang " baby ann" and sat beside in her white house robe. Ivan treblinka then raised me from age 2, he said Anton Lavey was a boyfriend of my birth mother. Ivan murdered my 4 year old friend Christopher in front of me, he cut out child's dtomach alive as he screamed 40? Seconds then silence. Ivan held bloody knife and said," Ann, if you show any fear, any tears in your eyes as i press this knife to your throat, i will kill another innocent child and it will be your fault." In my 5(?) Year old mind, i was safeguarding the world's children. My chin pressed upward. My eyes never cried nor teared....until age 16 never cried. Ivan's bloody knife pressed hard to my throat. " Good!" Ivan treblinka said, his eyebrows arched high, surprised. Golden daen has members out of control, very brilliant academically, linguistically, smart people are in golden dawn. Don't abuse power

  • @jammasterlee
    @jammasterlee 5 місяців тому

    I enjoyed this very much.

  • @omarlocke4351
    @omarlocke4351 5 місяців тому

    this woman is on to something. people like this might just be able to restore my faith in public health administrators...

  • @freddiemercerful
    @freddiemercerful 5 місяців тому

    Who's the tubby chap (second speaker) who wants to make Ted Hughes less masculine? Boring bourgois academic of the highest order! The best thing about Hughes is that he doesn't write like the poncy little contemporary male poets who try to out feminine the feminists. He's unapologetically northern and deep down the poshos hate him for it.

  • @ablestarofficial8117
    @ablestarofficial8117 5 місяців тому

    There’s a difference between conserved and concentrated

  • @ablestarofficial8117
    @ablestarofficial8117 5 місяців тому

    Changing viscosity in air means changing temperature. Ie. Pressure

  • @ablestarofficial8117
    @ablestarofficial8117 5 місяців тому

    Volume pressure altitude, air speed, wind speed, or density, gravity, and external pull, or tide.

  • @nihilioellipsis
    @nihilioellipsis 5 місяців тому

    Fist things first, the species is failing. next thing is that the lessons that should've been learned after World War II about the viability of the nation state as a unit of policy or not learned. it's not available model because it works poorly with homogeneous populations as well as heterogeneous populations because our species is shit. and another thing to consider next is that the international economy requires everyone to scramble panic conspire collaborate maintain secrecy make break alliances and deal with all the burdens of what capitalism turned into a kind of corporatism where governments and businesses are more and more resembling one another. this is all very complex, but the question about Greece and racism is of course there is racism because it's built into the global system. There's racism and one can pick up on indicators of ethnocentricity, sometimes really hard-core, all over the place. The Greek form very closely resembles all the other European forms I've encountered. The more realistic unit of human grouping is an ethnic which doesn't have to necessarily require genetic concentration but it usually does. It doesn't have to necessarily require geographical proximity of closeness, but it usually does. It doesn't always rely on one language, but most of the time it does. China Russia United States all have dominant languages regardless of ancestry religion phenotypes. Hegemons gonna hedge. The other thing which is telling is that every empire and dynasty has failed eventually and caused perhaps more damage than good. There are utopian dreams, stingy cabals, itchy trigger fingers, the legacies of hate to draw from.... Everyone demands a glorious homeland, but there aren't any in or imaginations or on the map. Even if we could say that there are clearly sides and conflicts that are better than other sides, does it really matter? And we must also realize that these conflicts, parochial and legacy, will serve the interests of the recently number of people who have large concentrations of wealth--globally, not a cabal of one or another ethnic or national group conniving to create a one-world government. What seems like a one-world government is really a universal economic system that the richest of the rich use efficiently. They don't give a fuck about local lives, languages, cultures, and conflicts. I grew up Greek American in Chicago and the ethnocentricity is legion, legendary--among plenty of other groups. It's embarrassing, even if it's understandable. Maybe if the anglos hadn't treated the early newcomer Greek immigrants inhumanely, they might've not tried to bounce back with such over-inflated false pride and braggadocio. It lso didn't help that the great Western powers bullied and manipulated Greece and that many Greek leaders collaborated with them in ways that have lead to destruction desired by people with mindset like Wolfgang Schäuble. We are all fucked. Greece is certainly not the only ethnically-dominated nation-state to commingle mythology and real history, especially as the modern nation was crafted by war. In the past, geographical distances and other factors strengthens both of the internal and integrity of cultures and sense of confusion and resentment, saying "population exchanges." What a demeaning, deceitful euphemism for mass expulsions- the mon-voluntary kind. So many of us and prior generations have squandered basic amiable honest approaches to relating with one another *within* and without our groups. there is too much a premium on being at one one and other's throats both near and far from one another cuz of the corporatist state capitalist fascist universal mode of government. Too many people all over are irrationally caught in the grip of irrational competition--without rules and laws. The only rules delivered by plutocrats autocrats oligarchs despots and tyrants (not in the sense of ancient Greek tyrants). They take positions as overlords using bureaucratic and military power to the flow of wealth moving toward them. I hope that the misinformation and disinformation and secrecy and patterns of lying and greater and greater concentration of wealth among smaller and smaller numbers of people can be curbed. I don't see how. If global cultures are to be protected and preserved and developed it would take a miracle of consensus building-manufacturing consent - at large levels. An epiphany. With the history of genocidal warfare, shifting alliances, having been sold out by northern countries, &c., the peoples of the Mediterranean and Balkan regions will face long-term Sisyphean challenges. Imagine, for instance, just the conflicts about energy and extractives.

  • @edwardlee4520
    @edwardlee4520 5 місяців тому

    Engaging talk. Brilliant mind he has got.

  • @Northcountry1926
    @Northcountry1926 6 місяців тому

    Delighted to watch this 💝

  • @richarddelanet
    @richarddelanet 6 місяців тому

    The first speaker says that if you haven't concluded what your understanding of the Enlightenment is, a book about the Enlightenment "won't help you much"... What unmitigated... Oxford something? Torch of? since the batteries ran out! What a waste of time. Until that is one gets to Prof Robertson himself. I am pleased I bought a copy, of the Allen Lane, hardback, and that I paid a regular retail price (£25 not £40 however). It is the best book I own for quality - everything about it purely as an object is just about perfect - if not the only book I own! It stands somehow in a league of its own! More heft, more nice than other Allen Lane first editions. And I sailed through the whole thing as if in a fair wind and made Plymouth sound in Greenwich mean time, England home and beauty! I think i'm trying to say something like hats in the air to Prof Robertson Sir.

  • @genevievedolan1288
    @genevievedolan1288 6 місяців тому

    I would really like to hear why he hated the documentary Pen Rhythm Poet. If anyone knows his reasons for feeling that way , please comment on it. It was very frustrating that the interviewer didn’t ask him to speak more about that. I just watched it and I think I can see some things he might not like, but it was actually really good, in my opinion.

    • @JohnJones-or8td
      @JohnJones-or8td 5 місяців тому

      Hi Genevieve, I read The Life and Rhymes recently and he actually mentioned it in one of the chapters in that. He said it was a strange documentary in many ways and he felt that he came across too serious and more of an old man than he does now; he also said it was strange that his speaking accent was so Jamaican rather than his natural Brummie. I got the feeling that there might be more to it than that, but that was as much as he said. I also agree with you that it is a great documentary - as someone who wasn't born until the 90s I feel the doc seems to encapsulate that early 80s era perfectly, it's a great insight into that time

    • @genevievedolan1288
      @genevievedolan1288 5 місяців тому

      @@JohnJones-or8td Thank you for your reply and insight. I must try and find his book, I am sure it is a great read. I thought perhaps he didn’t like the fact that his lyric toward Maggie Thatcher was so physically violent and that he was smoking in some of it. Also he did seem serious, and maybe too vulnerable. Perhaps not quite as in control of how he wanted to express himself as he became later in life. I was alive in that era and it certainly did capture the time period. I lived in London , and he walked around streets I knew well. It reminded me of how gloomy and decaying so much of the city was.( still is, but in a different way now) I enjoyed my Caribbean friends so much at that time because they brought ska and reggae! ( like he said) I hated the racism that was directed their way. I think his air of seriousness was part of that hurt and anger which he maybe was still learning to channel. Anyway I loved the documentary, and him.

    • @genevievedolan1288
      @genevievedolan1288 5 місяців тому

      @@JohnJones-or8td thanks for your reply and insights!

  • @solzero6535
    @solzero6535 6 місяців тому

    total fucking hero

  • @NavinaJafa
    @NavinaJafa 7 місяців тому

    Thank you ever so much. I, too, as a dancer, am working on trees and environmental personification, and I hope we can somehow collaborate to widen the international solidarity on climate action and arts ua-cam.com/users/shorts9YQIT3q1KjE @navinajafa

  • @alilsnek7142
    @alilsnek7142 7 місяців тому

    cheers guys, really fascinating.

  • @damienpace5008
    @damienpace5008 7 місяців тому

    The hosts should have stepped in to notify the guy he was continuing glitching. This is an agony to watch

  • @Perparim-gp1ef
    @Perparim-gp1ef 7 місяців тому

    Faky is cherch pushtis

  • @fdbkfdbk1088
    @fdbkfdbk1088 7 місяців тому

    The mention of Stavros Niarchos in this presentation is an abomination to everything that cultural, racial, anticolonial studies are for.

  • @jamison7762
    @jamison7762 7 місяців тому

    'PromoSM'

  • @connectingupthedots
    @connectingupthedots 7 місяців тому

    Left right brain dichotomy science aged like milk

  • @georgebethanis3188
    @georgebethanis3188 7 місяців тому

    Everybody is a racist. Claiming otherwise is a despicable lie. Some people are more vocal about it, some try to hide it. But its there. Plain and simple, people find other people who are similar to them more relatable and thus like them more. The more different you in a society, the higher the chances you are to be disliked. Fucking deal with it.

    • @carguy1697
      @carguy1697 3 місяці тому

      You don’t yet racist edge-Lord? We the human race will not move forward with that kind of attitude and you don’t care because it doesn’t affect you, but go to Asia or black country and I guarantee you will feel what it’s like and hate it