This is interesting. I recently had to deal with somebody who really hates Falun Gong, so it’s on my mind.
I had to try and get him to chill out, because it was affecting our outreach effort.
Month: April 2022
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Height Discrimination
I’ve started to research height discrimination for a friend, because he told me he’s facing it while seeking employment. I had a hard time believing him, at first. Though I know it exists, I didn’t comprehend how pervasive it is, or that it impacted employment very much.
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Height Discrimination
I’ve started to research height discrimination for a friend, because he told me he’s facing it while seeking employment. I had a hard time believing him, at first. Though I know it exists, I didn’t comprehend how pervasive it is, or that it impacted employment very much.
Categories
Height Discrimination
I’ve started to research height discrimination for a friend, because he told me he’s facing it while seeking employment. I had a hard time believing him, at first. Though I know it exists, I didn’t comprehend how pervasive it is, or that it impacted employment very much.
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Cutting the Avocado Tree
I’ve been cutting the tops off the avocado tree. The branches have grown up into the wires, and that’s been a challenge. I think I’m supposed to call an arborist to deal with it, but I’ve been using a rope and some tension, and tactical cutting, bit by bit.
I thought this was going to be a little trolling, but it got weird.
I just got this today.
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Brainwashing
I’m watching this video. It’s interesting.
The video is about Pavlov and coercive persuasion, in prisoner of war camps, and in cults.
I wonder how much brainwashing happens to American people who somehow get associated with a wartime enemy. I’m thinking about the Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2, Muslim Americans and Arab Americans during the “war on terror”, and Black people in America in general.
In times of war, the entire society becomes hostile for minorities associated with “the enemy”.
I’ve been reading a book about verbal abuse, on and off, and it’s uncanny, but it’s just like brainwashing: cycles of abuse followed by affirmations of care or love.
Verbal abuse can also be part of controlling someone by deploying verbal aggression against a third party, as a kind of demonstration of rage.
The video doesn’t go into any of that, and I wonder if these scholars even think about the role of abuse and coercive persuasion by Americans against Americans as a normal part of life.