every dollar prevented from going to cengage or pearson is a win for college students
but their online homework and grading subscriptions that they tie in with textbooks is definitely making it harder, especially the way they pay off schools to push their texts and curriculum on professors in stem fields, it’s awful and puts students in a position where they’re forced to pay for a textbook regardless
Its immediate focus, at least in the US, is sovereignty of indigenous nations where each nation’s land would be defined by current federally recognized reservations which indigenous folk occupy right now. Past that would be working to reverse legislation which has broken up this land, deny resources, repress indigenous culture for those living off reservation etc. I think the discussion of reparations should be had as well but realistically that’s probably a bit far off.
Ideally, in a world where western governments acted in good faith and with care for human life, we would be able to work directly towards returning land traditionally occupied by indigenous folk across the world to them as each peoples/nation saw fit, but realistically this takes the form of returning full sovereignty of what little land is officially recognized as belonging to each indigenous group, and then working from there through community organization, protesting, lobbying etc. to continue working to advance the rights of indigenous folk and repay in some way what has been stolen from them
To your last question, again in the context of the US, many indigenous groups already have their own governments where citizenship is determined how they see fit, some are stricter and go off of the standard of blood quanta which was put in place by the US govt. centuries ago, some go off descent, while others welcome anyone who has a clear cultural connection to the people. Part of returning sovereignty to these nations is allowing them to define citizenship however they see fit.
The movement isn’t saying that every precolonial society was better than ours in every metric, or that we should roll back the clock a thousand years, all it’s saying is that we should work towards giving back what was lost through the countless genocidal policies and violent colonialism that indigenous people across the world have faced.
Also I will say, at least in North America, which I’m most knowledgeable of, many indigenous societies were absolutely far more egalitarian and democratic than most western democracies, but are painted in a far different light when reading of them from the colonial perspective.
anecdotal but i ended up switching from ddg and searxng to brave because of how much more relevant and well structured i found their search results to be so i’m not sure i agree with the findings for that column
absolutely hate the company and am skeptical of their practices, but even considering all that their search toes the line of privacy and functionality better than some others, at least in the case of a daily user who needs a service that lies somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes
I’ve felt the same way, not only for what you said on the trans experience and atmosphere, but also in a more personal sense where a lot of the time posts like that start making me think critically about how I’m perceived, which is something I try my best to ignore to be able to get through the day lol.
I do get that a lot of us don’t really have any support networks or healthy outlets for our struggles with dysphoria and could really use someone to help ground our anxieties, so I don’t want that to be taken away from those who really need that, but on the other hand this is a pretty closely knit public forum where posts are seen by many people who are less vocal so i’m curious to see how others feel
lol the absolutism of people in privacy communities can be really be so unhelpful and tonedeaf at times
For discord there’s a couple things that can increase privacy to some degree, OpenAsar has some options related to privacy and tracking and will speed up load times, no clue how effective the anti-tracking feature is though. You could also use modded or 3rd party clients, I remember hearing about Powercord back when I used discord more and Replugged seems to be the continuation of that project. I also remember hearing of clients that basically simplifies the app to an IRC client with a super basic gui, I’ll edit if I remember the name
Not at all, from my experience they teach you how to use the websites and programs needed to complete assignments and nothing more, same went for teachers and faculty who would have no idea how to do things like change inputs on displays, turn on projectors, tell the difference between online and local versions of software, etc
These systems already exist because these indigenous nations already exist with their own governments, and have existed as self determinant, democratic political entities far before the colonization of North America.
It goes far past the reservation system and legally, per treaties signed by the US govt., these nations should be fully sovereign and politically independent. The genocide of a group of people doesn’t make some of their nations policies around citizenship right, but they exist as a direct result of how their governments are forced to operate under the current regressive US reservation system, and as mentioned before, these specific policies are rooted in previous US policy around census data (see Dawes Rolls) which was forced onto them.
It is unfair though to group all indigenous people as being racist or regressive for having rules within their own communities to limit access based on cultural or family background in order to maintain solidarity and survive centuries of genocidal policy that’s continued into the 21st century (see the infiltration of Indigenous leadership by the US govt. in the 20th century, i.e. the Navajo and Hopi). It’s also worth mentioning that all of this goes for the rest of North America along with Oceania due to very similar colonial history.
At the end of the day it really doesn’t matter how one feels about a group’s culture or survival mechanisms a group engaged with in order to recognize that the continued injustice against them should end and that they have a right to autonomy and self determination. It really shouldn’t be controversial, and the issues towards specific indigenous groups and their policies as they are now in the reservation system are separate issues to be covered after they have some form of real autonomy and political separation from state oppression.