Thursday, June 30, 2011

Credentialism infographic

It would be funny if it weren't so true.

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Still, education doesn't necessarily find you a job, as the recent and upcoming graduates in my MA program would tell you. But then, we didn't major in mailroom sciences...

3 comments:

  1. For some reason, the cartoon forgets to add that the happy picture of "then" only refers to the possibilities open to men.

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  2. Thanks for that comment... I was going to get into that too, but decided to make it a super short post instead (too much to do today to get ready for Pride) so i'm glad you brought it up!

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  3. Also, "then" is generally a capitalist myth: if we all work hard enough (and the we excluded women, as Clarissa mentioned, and racialized minorities) then we can be whatever we want to be. A person in the mail room climbing to become CEO because of dedication and hard work is a core ideology of capitalism in North America even though it's a lie.

    [And hope you're having fun in Toronto at Pride. It's too bad QuAIA is absent as a contingent this year.]

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