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Sicily in the 2nd Century
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Forté🏝️ retweeted
We don’t even talk about how male students are terrorised in these high schools. Even innocent friendships with female students are misconstrued because adults project their own depraved minds onto these boys, almost as though they were competing with the girls’ male peers.
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“I am a man of God.” “I am a church elder.” “I am a teacher.” “I am a headmaster.”
These titles are meant to protect. Instead, too many abusers wear them as cloaks, using respect and status to hide their evil, to rape, to defile, and to silence. It is exactly why, when the truth comes out, the victims are the ones doubted. “Not him. He’s a respected man.” But a title is not a character reference. Status does not equal innocence. We must stop protecting reputations and start protecting children. Demand accountability, no matter who the accused is.
#JusticeForObuasiSHTSGirls
Forté🏝️ retweeted
One of capitalism's greatest achievements is turning luxuries into necessities.
Air conditioning, refrigerators, smartphones, and travel were once unimaginable luxuries.
Now their widespread availability is taken for granted, and their absence is treated as evidence of poverty.
Forté🏝️ retweeted
While we’re on the matter, children are NOT in school to serve housemasters and housemistresses.
Stop making children cook for you, clean your homes, wash your clothes, fetch water and perform other personal chores that have absolutely nothing to do with their education.
They are students, not your domestic workers!
And please, spare me the “we did it in our time” argument.
Just because you endured something doesn’t mean another generation should have to.
Some traditions deserve to end with us.
Children go to school to learn, not to serve the very adults who have been entrusted with their care.
Forté🏝️ retweeted
I agree with @iakarimgh
As a gender champion and second most important person in the country
Your response to 19 of your students being sexually exploited in one space, should lead to a system shattering, cultural shift with extensive reforms and very strong punitive actions
Forté🏝️ retweeted
Infinite growth is not capitalism’s win condition; plus, capitalism has already ensured that everyone has their material needs met and socialism has not.
Forté🏝️ retweeted
"Socialism’s win condition is everyone having their material needs met"
If this is true, then socialism's win condition is infinite growth.
Human material needs are infinite. Ant system that seeks to fulfill those needs must infinitely grow.
Forté🏝️ retweeted
A party who has been pushing the hate bill to supposedly protect children is filled with rapists and pedophiles. Color me shocked
Forté🏝️ retweeted
This is the part that annoyed me most.
You’ve heard that he’s molesting girls and decide that boys, instead should go to his bungalow.
As if boys are immune to sexual harassment.
You see eh, boys don’t talk because their own shame they care about these things is worse, so they act tough.
But if we were to have honest conversations you’d be shocked how boys have suffered similar.
Inside The Dreaded Headmaster’s Bungalow: I advised him to let male students work for him in his bungalow - Richard Ofori Agyemang Board, Mayor of Kumasi.
Watch full Documentary here: youtu.be/iyPimAy4fCY
#JoyNews #HotlineDocumentary
Forté🏝️ retweeted
For many, it starts when you are a child.
The uncle insisting you sit on his lap, the family “friend” touching you inappropriately in the name of playing with you; and sometimes, before you even have the words to explain what is happening, you learn the hard way that people will protect an adults reputation over your discomfort.
You leave home for school, where you are supposed to be safe, and encounter the same danger from someone entrusted with protecting you.
Can you speak? No!
And even if you do, who protects you? Unless you’re walking around with a camera, it’s your word against theirs.
And most are more willing to give the accused a benefit of doubt they’d never give the accuser.
And it does not end at school. For too many women, university, work and everyday life bring another round of unwanted advances, harassment and the exhausting calculation of whether speaking up will cost them more than staying silent.
Your mothers, sisters,wives, aunties etc all have a story, they’re just silent because they embarrassed to share, and know they don’t have the evidence you require to believe them.
The bigger picture here is that if you’re making people miss Bawumia then you’re doing something absolutely terribly wrong.
Forté🏝️ retweeted
The beauty of capitalism is that you don't have to care about helping people to improve their lives.
The profits incentivize even the most selfish entrepreneur to figure out what other people want.
Markets turn self-interest into mutual benefit.
That's the entire point.
I have a big problem with lumping the very varied and diverse religions in the continent together as African spirituality.
We must start respecting the diversity of our cultures/religions and how they stand on their own without any linkages to other African religions.
