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an-angry-linguist:

The Western world will tell a white person that learning a new language and becoming bilingual will present new opportunities for them and promise a high-paying, competitive job. Meanwhile, Latinx people who grew up bilingual in Spanish and English, or learned English later on, will be offered a job that is lower paying than jobs of the same title offering to monolingual people. A bilingual, non-white person will be looked down on for code-switching or forgetting a word in their second language, but a white person will be told that it’s okay and just “part of the process.”

The Western world doesn’t care if someone is bilingual unless they’re white.

White second-language learners and bilinguals, myself included, should understand what kind of privelige we carry even in situations like these.

kidzbopdeathgrips:

aggrokawaii:

aztechnology:

socialist-weeaboo:

tyrannosaurus-rex:

kidzbopdeathgrips:

this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong

this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.

even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste. 

The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.

I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.

https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/

It ceases to be about production and more about subjugation.

DING DING DING

WE HAVE OURSELVES A WINNER!

kaizen-system:

dissociation is everything going out of focus and you just sit there wondering if you still have eyes

mlm-punk:

I crave that domestic life with a boy, I wanna make him breakfast and take him out to dinner. I wanna lay on our couch together and nuzzle myself into his shoulder while we watch movies. I wanna come home from work to see him. I wanna adopt dogs together and they can be our babies. I wanna kiss him sleepily every night before bed and wake up to him smiling at me