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Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. "Language is never neutral."

Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire's education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.

Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.

Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".

In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the "banking method" of education, wherein a teacher "deposits" knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or "bank". Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.

"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination."

Paulo Freire

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So the pager thing was definitely a ploy to maim hospital staff with some plausible deniability, right?

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

That and I think it was planned to work like a flashbang before a ground invasion if the IOF went into southern Lebanon, but it got uncovered early and they set it off before it could be disarmed

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't seen anything about who they hit outside of two children that were clearly accidental, but if they got mostly hospital staff I feel like we would've heard about it

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know how many they were, but there were reports of doctors and first responders getting hit. Of course a lot of push to dismiss said doctors and first responders as Hezbollah. Given the historic record if how western media reports on this stuff, why would you assume Israel couldn't have a massive false positive rate which gets sweeped under "enemy combatant" or whatever label? Lol.

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not dismissing the possibility, but until we get actual facts and figures, it makes just as much sense to do that as to trust random weirdos on Twitter - none at all.

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I read that the Taiwan pager company Golden Apollo (that the Hungarian company BAC that is suspected of being the 'middleman' in the attack purchased licensing of, hence why the remnants of the bomb pagers were licensed as official Golden Apollo ones) is a very established exporter of pagers to north america and west europe and is used by western intelligence agencies. western intelligence apparently (by their words so who knows) got tipped off that "something" was being planned to happen by Israelis but weren't told what.

So it is conceivable that it was a simultaneous terror attack on Lebanon and low-key threat to its western backers who are faltering or otherwise having their populace turn on their support. There were EU countries who not only abstained in the UN GA vote, but even voted in favor with the "uncivilized world" in calling Israel's presence in the occupied territories "unlawful," demanding they remove themselves, and urging countries to embargo them from weapons and war-prosecuting material trade. While the Israeli UN ambassador shitted and farted and cried about how it is "diplomatic terrorism" (Whatever the fuck that even means)

They're non-binding but still politically representative of trends. The stances of these countries and their populations leading up to votes like this is definitely easy for intelligence to have prior-knowledge of; and the Democrats are and have been visibly hemorrhaging support over this. The mass sustained protests all over the world against the IOF's genocidal occupation and assaults and for the liberation of Palestine have become unignorable by their establishments. Even US college campuses have had to update their rulebooks to include "zionism" as hate speech (surely not going to hurt Jews and trivialize and provide cover for actual judeophobia by equating Jews with Israel. DtA). So it could be a double-message there.

As well, Israel is just desperate to escalate in as many tangential ways as it can to kick off a regional war and drag the US and NATOsphere into it because their current predicament is unsustainable.