It has been about two years since covid-19 began to alter our world, and with all the news, media and variants we are in a place of anomic uncertainty and confusion. Yet this also brings the possibility to move forward in creative, healthy ways. As we have learned this session, not all deviance is negative; in fact, it often takes the work of people acting in deviant ways to promote positive social change.
So let’s examine the topics from this week, along with those from the past several modules, to see how we can reflect on positive deviance in the form of radical compassion: for ourselves, our friends, families, communities, and even those we may vehemently disagree with.Â
When I think of radical compassion, I am analyzing how a person may go above and beyond what is usually considered as simply being kind to one another. To have total compassion, we can potentially create social change through empathy. A conscious awareness of being compassionate is one way to share positive deviance (as Heckert and Heckert have defined for us at the beginning of our course).
So, let’s discuss how compassion, kindness, and empathy can be explained as deviance and potentially lead to positive social change, at a time when a lot of us are feeling uncertain in our world. Here’s an article that may also provide more insight and context for how we might feel:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-true-refuge/202003/radical-compassion-in-challenging-times
Here are 3 thoughts and ideas for your YellowDig posts this week:
1) Share an image and explain or simply explain a random act of kindness that you have done, have witnessed, or have been on the receiving end of.
2) Discuss how the theories and concepts from throughout the course fit with your example. Â How might a random act of kindness be considered deviant, and how might it be structured, organized, or explained using the terms we’ve considered along the way? Use your creativity in how you view the act as deviant, how labels and reactions may be considered, how legitimacy or stigma may be included, how deviance is organized, and the like. How might we flip an immediate thought of deviance as negative to one that can be explained as positive?
3) what is  with one example of what random act of kindness or radically compassionate act you can do for yourself now to promote kindness and empathy toward yourself in this time, and provide one example of what you might want to witness or do for someone else in the future once we are no longer needing to physically distance from others. How does this fit with what you’ve learned about deviance as it relates to yourself, loved ones, community members, strangers, enemies, and/or all of society?
(Note, there are some potentially negative outcomes of being overly compassionate for those of us who may struggle with this, such as ignoring ourselves when giving too much to others, which can lead to compassion fatigue. Let’s be mindful of that and really honestly think of some positive ways to promote kindness toward ourselves as we contemplate answers for #3. It is intentional that I listed the request for an example of kindness toward yourself first!)
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Jon McQueen
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Last Saturday at 7:48 AM MST
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labels and categorization isn’t something new and
we all know this. Let’s have some fun!? I want you
to pick one of your favorite songs and then break
down where you see labels in this song. How does
it impact, enforce, upright or bring down, or
degrade or more groups, individuals and society.
Have fun! I am looking forward to the responses
and I hope you pick what you really listen to, don’t
try to impress me with “made to be political or
social movement songs” what you listening to that
you can see the labeling in since taking this
course!
Also @Marcus Johnson you had some fun deviant
ideas for getting points. The actually fastest way to
get points is posting and reposting and then tying a
post to a response with the minimum words to
meet the standard.. if you’re going to do it, I like
your style. Shoot many of you in class got the vibe
going style in the room, make me think I need to
step up my drip… got me lacking over here. See
isn’t this tangent fun!
Looking forward to your responses
Professor McQueen
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I just wanted to come and briefly continue the
discussion we were having on witchcraft and how
it is accepted and dealt with today, in comparison
to Salem Witch Trial times. Someone asked if
witchcraft had actually become more accepted,
and I think yes and no. There seems to be a more
acceptable form of what is witchcraft today. When I
tell people I have crystals and read tarot, it is
fawned over, just like any other hobby type of thing.
People will ask me to give them readings, and
invite me over to have a whole night centered
around it. I think this is part of the current "trendy"
form of witchcraft. It is easier to get into and easier
to understand for most. I think there is something
to be said about how things like crystals and tarot
cards can play into an aesthetic. When I try to
explain to people other ritual/seance based stuff
that furthered my experience with witchcraft, the
mood instantly changes too me looking crazy and
too out there. From personal experience I think that
there is acceptable witchcraft and unacceptable
witchcraft, even if we dont get burned at the stake
for unacceptable witchcraft anymore.
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For the concept of labeling and resisting labels, I
picked one of my favorite songs called "Comatose,"
by Monument of a Memory. The lyrical content is
about harmful consumption, but more specifically,
addresses addiction. The term "wake up" is the
recurring term/theme in the song.
"Wake up from the weight pulling you down deeper
into the murky depths / As your mind floods you
begin to wonder / If you'll ever wake up / You're
drowning and you don't seem to notice this could
be your end" - What's interesting about these first
lines in the song is that they're saying to wake up
and "change," but also saying that your addiction
may cause you not to wake up one day and kill you.
There's a contrast like this through the entire song.
The video conveys addictions such as gambling,
pill popping, drug abuse and alcoholism, which aid
to accurately portray a storyline that goes with the
lyrical content. But also, the frontman laying in bed
then ripping off the covers + screaming "WAKE UP"
in the beginning of the video, puts great emphasis
on that term.
(Lyrics are in the description if anyone does watch
the video)
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Mario Molina
Yesterday at 5:11 PM MST
I love listening to a lot of music, and for Labeling
and Resisting Labels, I decided to go with a song by
one of my favorite bands. Dead Kennedys wrote a
song titled "Jock-O-Rama" from their album
Frankenchrist, the song is upbeat and wild and with
clever satiric lyrics. It brings down highschool jocks
and talks about the life they live and the
community that surrounds them. Singing about
how jocks are mean't to be tough, mean and only
about sports. Sighting the football fans as
something of a cult from the pep rallys they cheer
at, to the desires they crave of winning by injuring
the other team permanently. Saying that this is the
future of America, wild fans getting drunk and only
wanting the team to win. Having their injured
players short lived and not caring enough to show
sympathy. And just how players getting caught
drunk driving are slapped on the wrist by cops.
Only because the cops say "Don't worry about it,
son, we were that way when we were young" This
is one of my favorite songs from their album and I
thought it would be a good choice for our Labeling
chapter. As it talks about the labeling of jocks and
bringing them down to how some people may see
them.
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Joseph Lucero
Last Wednesday at 10:53 AM MST
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The reading on doctors and what professor
McQueen said in class yesterday about how
doctors are investigated by their peers when they
do something wrong or illegal like malpractice, it
reminded me of cops. Specifically, how when they
unjustifiably kill someone or use excessive force
they are generally protected by police unions and
when they are investigated they are investigated
by other cops. This usually leads to a slap on the
wrist or if they are fired they can just get hired at
another station in another state. This is usually
because the cops that are being investigated know
the investigator or because there is a general
camaraderie with cops where they don't like to
punish other cops too harshly. I just find it
ridiculous in the case of cops or doctors that have
this type of power, but to be honest we give this
type of power to them. We expect doctors and cops
to do good and if something happens where they
don't we expect them to take care of their own. But
obviously, that doesn't happen and more harm than
good comes out of it.
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