Reflections on college visits

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:

@blondie said in Reflections on college visits:

(We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).

You're not a colonist and you don't owe anyone an apology.

More generally, why is it we recognize how foul and dangerous it is to tie ethnicities to territories when the European right does it ("Blut und Boden") but somehow its ok when "First (sic) Nations" do it?

Also, why is the second to last group to conquer a territory special? Why not third to last? Or fourth?

The whole ideology is intellectually vacuous.

You expressed that very well… And may I point out that the far right’s approach to limiting immigration while railing against natives is equally idiotic?

[LuFins Dad]

@Horace said in Reflections on college visits:

But the only honest way to frame real estate ownership is whomever has the power gets the land. But modern humans don’t like honesty at that level so we talk around it with various euphemisms and falsehoods.

I’m not a very popular dad at the various kid groups and the parks we take Finley to. Inevitably, two little boys get in trouble and the mom’s start with that ridiculous “violence never solves anything” crap, and I feel compelled to correct them.

[Mik]

So you want to coldcock one of the moms?

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Reflections on college visits:

So you want to coldcock one of the moms?

Based off their reactions, you would think I had.

[89th]

Is that better than warmcock? Asking for a friend

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in Reflections on college visits:

@Horace said in Reflections on college visits:

But the only honest way to frame real estate ownership is whomever has the power gets the land. But modern humans don’t like honesty at that level so we talk around it with various euphemisms and falsehoods.

I’m not a very popular dad at the various kid groups and the parks we take Finley to. Inevitably, two little boys get in trouble and the mom’s start with that ridiculous “violence never solves anything” crap, and I feel compelled to correct them.

Ha just yesterday my 3 year old hit my 5 year old and he complained to me, I told him to just hit her back. Is that bad? She needs to learn there are consequences. At playgrounds it is remarkable how involved parents get at trying to keep the line fair at a slide or to intervene when kids fight, or to stop a kid from climbing the slide backwards. I am almost at the extreme side these days where I very much want my kids to figure it out and maybe I'm biased but my kids are usually the best behaved at these places now.

[Mik]

Playground. A place for kids to explore and use their imagination, to try things, to test themselves. It should not be regimented.

[jon-nyc]

@89th said in Reflections on college visits:

Is that better than warmcock? Asking for a friend

No but at Mik’s age it’s the best he can do.

[Mik]

Well, this thread has gone far and wide.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Reflections on college visits:

Well, this thread has gone far and wide.

How so? Warmcock and Campus visits go together…

[blondie]

I know I’m not a colonist.
But as Canuck, I still apologize. That’s almost genetic.
UBC is a fine university. Good nurses and doctors graduate from there. I’d rather do medicine there or see a doctor who graduated from there than Toronto. B.C. is expensive though. We’ve a saying, “B.C.” -> “Bring Cash” .