18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is Now Essentially Equivalent To Life In...

Are your addressing something relevant to this thread?

Since your white power neo nazi link is in any thread you write in then yes it is relevant in any thread your white supremacist nuts song appears in.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Since your white power neo nazi link is in any thread you write in then yes it is relevant in any thread your white supremacist nuts song appears in.

Your free to draw whatever conclusions you desire.
It's good to know that my sig has made such a big impression.
Enjoy.

[Oberon]

It's good to know that my sig has made such a big impression.

The only impression it gives is that you are a small minded bigot who likes a sick ideology which any sane person knows gave the world millions of reasons to detest it.

[Onkel Neal]

Let's avoid the name calling and stay on topic, please.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Let's avoid the name calling and stay on topic, please.

Actually I'm with him on that, Neal. IMO someone promoting a known and self-admitted racist/neo-nazi artist in a totally non-ironic way on the forums more than deserves being called out on being small-minded and bigoted.

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As for prison-likeness, well, I point you to Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" which makes a pretty convincing argument that Western society over the last 2.5 centuries has become increasingly prison-like in general, especially as regards public institutions, education and work. And that's not a 'horrible truth', that's just a comment on the fact that accomplishing projects on the scale that we take on as society needs effective management strategies, and prison is the best-managed model we've yet come up with. Sad, but fact.

What's more, it's prisons that have become more like the rest of society, not vice versa. For one, modern school discipline precedes the institution of the prison as we know it by many centuries. What we know/think of as prison today didn't even exist a few hundred years ago, or at least was almost unrecognizably different. Schools are also recent, but in fact it's easier to see how schools and Enlightenment education have served as a model for prisons. Though it would be more accurate to say that both schools and prisons developed in parallel from much the same sources, and this parallel development continues today. Nothing surprising.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Oberon