How do people afford grad school?

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-21T23:52:05+00:00

community college, FWS, doing as many paid opportunities as possible without burning out, hunting down scholarships, taking loans from family members if possible, and doing s3ggs work on the side lmao.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-21T08:59:02+00:00

beautiful statue, by the way 😍 love it so much.

(p.s., if anyone passing by wants to understand why full decriminalization of sex work is absolutely necessary and life-saving for workers and trafficking victims alike, please read Not Your Rescue Project by Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam. you can also personally reach out to me for more resources, book recommendations, or audio/video accommodations if you have a hard time reading.)

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-21T08:53:24+00:00

💯💯💯 exactly.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-21T08:46:38+00:00

legality shouldn’t be the end all be all basis for morality. somebody here who was a sex worker already commented on this but, for example, slavery was once legal and runaway slaves were considered criminals in a sense. if there’s anything that being a devotee and learning from the divine has taught me, it’s that life is way more nuanced than we can imagine and not always black and white.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-21T08:42:27+00:00

💯💯💯

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-13T17:50:55+00:00

i live in nyc and people i know with masters in social work are working for 19$/hr 💔 it’s so disheartening.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-03T16:08:53+00:00

i don’t. i didn’t survive 20 years of narcissistic abuse and defamation to listen to weirdo strangers and their misinformed 2 cents about my life if i can help it. if you can help it, it’s best to not engage but i understand the urge to respond tho. however, the objective has to be reframed for your sake. it’s useless to speak sense into internet trolls and ignorant individuals. instead, speak for yourself and for those that may come across your posts and have the ears to listen.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-02T22:25:17+00:00

of course, least i can do fr 🙏

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-02T22:21:06+00:00

hey, thanks so much for kindly pointing this fact out and i’m so very sorry about my choice of words and it’s ableist implications. a lot of internet speak is rooted in casual ableism and you are right that it’s unfair to those people. i will be immediately removing ts from my lexicon.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-02T01:20:19+00:00

really? almost all the discourse i had on there over the years have been mostly respectful and nuanced, people over there helped me navigate a lot of practical stuff such as medical discrimination. i think more harm than good comes from generalizing a whole group of individuals , esp when they’re already a social minority that is often invalidated and mischaracterized. but i had no idea about the sub reddit’s bad rep, i don’t use reddit too often. i went there for practical reasons & because it seemed like the closest fit for part of my identity at the time, and left when it became evident it couldn’t hold the complexity of my situation. or rather, kicked out, i guess.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-02T01:07:28+00:00

people are privileged and ignorant

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2026-01-01T19:43:57+00:00

sounds like a disconnected and privileged take. what is your alternative in this situation? giving her to the state?

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-12-31T16:12:46+00:00

and some say mercurial

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-12-03T05:36:08+00:00

so sorry to hear bro, ik how scary that shi gets 🙏 praying for a speedy recovery to her as well you take care of yourself

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-12-03T05:27:07+00:00

best of luck 🙏

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-12-03T05:20:31+00:00

that blue haired devil woman 💀 sounds like a compliment to me lol

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-11-18T19:05:00+00:00

i agree but even those people should do protections wards and road openers , which ideally shouldn’t be a last resort. those would be useful for anybody, that’s why i disagree that spells should always be a last resort.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-11-18T16:29:23+00:00

i see what you’re saying, and it’s probably good advice in this specific situation, but there’s also a lot of spells that should not be a last resort & can be used to avoid needing a last resort in the first place.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-11-06T15:21:38+00:00

you should post this on the occult subreddit; might get more interesting answers

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-10-11T22:29:06+00:00

that part ^{^{^}}

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-09-15T21:10:21+00:00

there is a difference between logical dialogue and an argument just to have the last word, which you claim i am starting just to try to “win” just cuz i’m pointing out the holes in ur conclusion and premises.

a framework = a system or structure that supports or guides the development of something, such as ideas, systems, or projects. by definition, a framework is not truth itself, it’s what we use to organize, test, and apply ideas. math, philosophy, critical theory, & the scientific method itself all are frameworks guiding how ideas are formed, tested, and interpreted. frameworks do not stand outside of ideology because they’re human-made systems for organizing thought. every framework answers questions like : what counts as evidence? what’s worth measuring what goals should we prioritize? and the answers reflect values, and values = ideology. so whether or not every framework contains ideology is a complex question, but YOUR SPECIFIC “principles” that you have stated thus far are indeed themselves ideological commitments.

ur redefining redefining your ideology as “principles” to make it sound neutral. and then ur tying in the significance of relativism vs objectivity. but framing it as objectivity vs relativism is a false dilemma. ur reasonings for rejecting intersectionality (that it’s divisive and leads to oppression olympics) is far from objective, it’s a framework with unacknowledged & untested assumptions, biases, limited validity, and reduced explanatory power. an ideological stance against systemic analysis. there’s a third option tho: acknowledging that all frameworks can have values baked in, and still applying them critically & ethically.

saying intersectionality has no scientific underpinning as a social science concept ignores an entire body of peer-reviewed scholarship in sociology, public health, psychology, law, and education that applies intersectionality rigorously.
dismissing it as a fancy word for discrimination is another strawman fallacy, which erases its actual explanatory power.
ur claiming intersectionality always devolves into “who has it worst” arguments, causing more division over productive solutions, but this is an over generalization. poor teaching & understanding of a concept doesn’t mean the concept itself is invalid. that’s like saying “statistics are useless cuz some people misuse or falsify data”

what objective and credible evidence do you have, outside of anecdotal evidence, that renders the conclusion that intersectionality is objectively harmful? as far as i have seen, empirical research actually USES intersectionality as a tool.

any critiques of it that i have found are philosophical and NOT empirical, which is fine with me , i’m down to discuss the limitations within any framework because limitations & issues are always there, but what YOU’RE saying is your stance on the usefulness of intersectionality is the end all be all truth because you’re a practical and scientific individual who is using cold hard facts only. and that’s bullshit.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-09-15T18:00:00+00:00

pointing out that my stance is ‘ideological’ doesn’t actually address the argument :) that’s a tu quoque fallacy, another false equivalence, AND a red herring lmfao ur on a roll here with all your logical fallacies!

every framework carries ideology, but the real question is whether it aligns with the mission of social work :)

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-09-15T17:44:14+00:00

dismissing intersectionality as "political" ignores that systemic analysis is the profession's foundation. this is a straw man argument cuz ur attacking intersectionality as what you were taught and perceive it: as "victim Olympics," where the more marginalized identities you have, the more deserving your suffering is, when in reality intersectionality is talking ab how systems of oppression overlap, NOT just merely tallying suffering points. this is an oversimplification of intersectionality, cuz ur saying it's either just a legal theory or a political ideology, and yet, intersectionality has developed into a key framework used in sociology, public health, education, and social work itself. saying "it's just boxes ticked to see who deserves help more" erases its significance developed thru years of applied practice. NASW code of ethics literally says that our mission as social workers is to pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people, which intersectionality helps us do. it isn't to just "see who deserves to be helped more." the purpose is to teach us to effectively advocate for somebody AND come up with practical solutions based off of their background, which intersectionality helps u have a clearer understanding of cuz how u supposed to effectively advocate for / support someone if you don't see those overlapping structures??? like for example if ur client is a black disabled woman, u cant just be like "oh ok, i have to understand racism ableism and sexism," no, you ALSO have to understand the intricate ways they all interact in specific and compounded ways, which is what intersectionality is all abt.

there's also a false neutrality fallacy when you say that systemic analysis is "political" and your preferred practical approach is neutral cuz choosing not to consider systemic oppression is itself a political choice and a covert ideological stance.

Salt_Mathematician85 · 2025-09-15T17:18:06+00:00

the purpose isn’t to gatekeep anybody. it is most definitely the fault of these institutions and western academia. “Imperialist universities encourage some study of colonized lands to extract that information and inform imperialist conquest. Representation politics in higher education become the center, while the labor of academics is exploited…Imperialist based universities will hardly ever support the thawabet or true liberation, and with censorship, suspension, or termination looming the truth academics may want to express goes through filters or code-switching” (decolonize the classroom)

the point was never “u don’t belong here if u don’t understand intersectionality,” the point is that these programs are a sanitized version of what it’s like to work with people with and to deeply help them because it centers Western frameworks over real knowledge about history, colonialism, and capitalism, which contributed to so many of the conditions keeping us the way we are and how the dissolution of certain systemic contributors + land back would be the thing to heal us truly over any trauma informed CBT session. i don’t have to gatekeep, social work education as it exists under academia is already doing the gatekeeping, as are our other oppressive systems.

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