[For this year’s annual post-Valentine’s non-favorites series, I wanted to highlight some current (and in most cases longstanding) trends that really gripe my cookies. Leading up to another great crowd-soured airing of grievances from fellow AmericanGripers!]
First, this
thread from PEN America’s Jeremy Young on Florida’s horrifying new
higher ed bill is must-read.
Christina Arrington responds
to Monday’s post, adding, “As a country, we should uphold the education of our
citizens. It not only enables our citizenry to be productive individuals and
good providers for themselves and their families, but an educated populace is
what sustains our democracy.”
Along those lines, make sure to sign and share this petition to have the state of New York fully fund the SUNY and CUNY systems (thanks to @CitizenSE for sharing it with me!).
Other
non-favorite trends and topics:
Mary shares, “I’m so tired of everyone posing as
science experts when they almost certainly failed HS biology and never had a
single science class since.”
Dr. Mary Todd adds,
“Beyond tired of the blatant dishonesty/endless lying, whether from politicians
of a certain party or a faux-news network.”
The awesome Laura Ingalls Wilder in Context
Twitter account writes, “My unfavorite: people dismissing my independent work as
‘for children,’ thus somehow not worthy of the term ‘scholarship,’ but when the
rare person follows up to learn exactly what I do (contextualize and attempt to
decolonize said work) they respond with something akin to a derisive snort.”
Jeff
Renye highlights TikTok, and especially the very frustrating Kia
Boyz challenge.
Michael Giannasca writes, "I had to read and work through The Lively Art of Writing back in high school and hated it!"
And I’ll
let my colleague (and Guest
Poster) Irene Martyniuk have the vital last word: “Today, on the one year anniversary of
Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, my non favorite trend is the rise of
dictators, the silence of those they rule, and the feeling of some that
counties should not help Ukraine and keep them out of the EU.”
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Other
non-favorites of any kind you’d share?
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