A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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For me, it was that protesting was only ever discussed as peaceful, civil activity, as was a way of communicating demands outside of the voting cycle.
Unionization and workers rights were never discussed. I didn’t learn about unions as a concept until nearly graduation when my first job had so much required training about how dangerous they were, and of course I assumed they were full of it and did my own investigation.
It always bugs me a little when Labor Day rolls around and people just kind of ignore how workers' rights were literally fought and died for, but as you said, they don't teach us about Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square on purpose.
And who was basically always on the wrong side?
The US military.
It is very much ongoing.
Also, not being taught that the civil war and slavery and all that shit was fucking EVIL
Edit: I grew up in the south
In the same vein as the first comment, you were also likely taught that slavery ended in the 19th century with the end of the Civil War.
I actually had a teacher that pointed out the 13th amendment prison exemption.
She was also a black muslim, as in actually wearing a hijab. (the point of this being that it was diverse af and not just white teachers)
Also focused a lot on COINTELPRO and the spying on civil right leaders that type of stuff.
And the Jim Crow stuff, sharecropping... etc...
Also that the emancipation proclamation itself probably did not free any enslaved people, since they only applied to rebelling states, which would obviously ignore it.
(Philly btw... my school was rated so bad btw... like 2/10 on the greatschool .org thing lots of fightings and stuff, the point being that its not some rich neighborhood)
But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans... :(
Just a brief mention and that's all, probably why racism towards Asian Americans are still so common and still socially acceptable... :(
You were also likely taught that the genocide of indigenous Americans was a past event, too.
I have met people who did not realize that indigenous Americans still exist.
It certainly was shocking to find an active ongoing eugenics program was still active in the 1970's.
The reality of people existing in active oppression by the US government is absolutely not the impression that I got.
I’m pretty sure Indigenous women are still being sterilized without their knowledge or consent during births or other medical procedures in parts of the US and Canada.
Have any examples?
Just Google “forced sterilization of indigenous women” https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d
Clearly still happening recently in Canada, how about the US?
Y𝖾s, including in the Unit𝖾d Stat𝖾s. Quick s𝖾arch𝖾s pull up many r𝖾sults, both on indig𝖾nous p𝖾opl𝖾s and on many oth𝖾rs including migrants in ICE d𝖾t𝖾ntion.
Example 1 - Indigenous Peoples Here's a link that claims "From 1907 until as recently as 2018, tens of thousands of Native women underwent tubal ligation"
Example 2 - Migrants Here's a summary link of prior/current cases. "On September 14, 2020, nurse Dawn Wooten filed a whistleblower complaint . . . Wooten said that nearly every [detained migrant] woman who went to see a doctor was told she had to undergo a hysterectomy."
Example 3 - Another link with more summaries and cited sources. Some were court & judge approved coercion. "As recently as May 2017, Tennessee Judge Sam Benningfield signed an order that offered misdemeanor offenders 30-day sentence reductions if they underwent either a vasectomy or a birth control implant [16]." "Between 2005 and 2013, 144 women were coerced into sterilization in California [19]."
Edit: formatting
Another quick search https://www.nccih.ca/docs/child%20and%20youth/FS-Forced-sterilization-EN-Web.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/canada-indigenous-women-sterilisation-lawsuit closest I find find in 5 minutes
Well it is.
They are called boomers now and blamed for everything despite of the things they did.
While the movement is piece of the past, I would argue that the fight for equal rights continues to this day.
What you said thought doesn’t add up to my knowledge though — Civil Rights was fought for roughly from 1950-1960s. The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964 when Boomers were turning 18 and the last year of their generation. This would mean that the people in the streets protesting and/or voting weren’t boomers but the silent generation and their parents.
That is indeed your limited knowledge.
If you want to cherrypick one thing (1964).
There was still a lot to do and done after that.
Vietnam after that for one.
Black Panters didn't even exist.
Also, 'the fight for equal rights continues to this day'
It should but it doesn't really.
A lot of complaining and embarrassingly weak and lame stuff.
Looks like the regime won and the population has been pacified.
If you're going to troll from overseas you aught to work on your English a bit. I'd suggest reading up on your American history too but it's pretty clear that's not super important to whatever message it is you think you're sending.
If you’re going to troll from overseas you aught to work on your English a bit
That is typical level of petty I expect from a butthurt american.
My English is fine, especially compared to the embarrassing literacy level of that banana republic.
So you can quit being pretentious.
And writing facts is not trolling.
Instead of your baseless accusations you might have offered some yourself.
I probably know more than americans about their own awful history, which they don't learn about in their backward and propagandized schools.
So do you have anything of substance to add or is pathetic slander all you have?
My English is fine,
So you're saying you sound like a crazy person without a single coherent thought because you intend to sound crazy and incoherent?
you're dumb, boring and annoying, nothing will be lost by blocking you.
go fuck yourself americunt peasant
But the boomers to this day continue to vote for corrupt governments and fall for such blatant government lies and deception
25 -29 only had a 10% difference for Copmala.
Everyone older was equal or pro Orange.
But if it makes you feel better about your ageism towards a generation that actually fought for something while current generations are an embarrassment, go ahead.
I don't live in the US shithole so IDC.
In fact, if they're dumb enough to fall for divide and conquer tricks and not direct their anger at the guilty ones you deserve what you get and I'm glad that cancer country is going to shit..
"copmala" is not catchy at all, you should drop that from your vocabulary
"Skamala" maybe.
No thanks, it's not about being catchy.
I suppose it implies scamming: an illegal way of making money, usually by tricking people?
That would be most politicians.
And it's much too innocent.
Copmala refers to her awful history, It may get some ignorant and oblivious americans to look up what that name is about.
I guess there's some truth to that. No point fighting amongst each other while the real enemy gets away with it
Indeed.
