Posted by alexandra_k on April 17, 2022, at 4:06:30
In reply to Re: nz leading the world in slavery, posted by alexandra_k on April 17, 2022, at 3:48:34
my conduct (on the other hand) both in teaching and hospitality capacity has never been anything other than professional.
i don't think it would have been professionally appropriate for me to be grading essays on euthanasia the day of my fathers funeral. i would not have been able to be objective about the issue. i would not have been able to grade the essays on their academic merits on that day. that was why i withdrew from grading on that day. i was not able to do the work on that day.
that was not unprofessional of me.
i did not know that my father had lung cancer when i accepted the contract to work for 1 year. i was not offered any way of repairing for the work that i missed. if they had have said 'since you didn't do that we are going to need you to do something else' down the track (e.g., some grading for someone else) then i would have done it. no problems. but i couldn't see what to do to repair and nobody offered any suggestions for me...
so i'm not going to feel bad or guilty or whatever about it.
i don't expect things to be perfect in the world. but i do expect people to be trying to work towards making things better. rather than people being too scared to speak up or make any movements in that direction.
that's how things feel here. all this stuff about how they are going to introduce things so that people can complain... i don't think that anybody here will view these measures as anything other than collecting up information about who to black-list or write up for the first available draft.
i think that people are geninely afraid, here, that complaining, or saying that certain practices are not okay (e.g., certain government practices etc)... will amount to them being targeted for bad treatment etc. beign excluded from funding etc. being drafted etc.
that if the universities, for example, ask employees to say if they feel they are not academically free to speak up about that... they will only collect up the names to see who to cut so that the results of the next survery will be better.
the government seems to focus on how to shut things down more quickly.
like how they got to see what every other nation was (according to one ideology) able to accomplish with various policies aroudn removing and relocating people's children. other nations did various things in this regards or respect. new zealand waited until the countries had given public apologies about all the harms they had done with these practices. before the nz government really decided to follow along last... only to lead the world in inflicting as much harm in as short a space of time as possible. to harm as many as htey could... they knew about the harmfulness of the practices before they really hunkered down to get going with them.
they knowingly hired and kept on staff and re-deployed known, documented, torturers and abusers and so on.
and they are still at it.
and they still refuse to process and progress and employ people who they have marked as people they would really rather be bullied to death.
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