#83 Bad Memories of High School
March 6, 2008 by clander
The most time and cost efficient way of gaining a white person’s trust and friendship is to talk to them about their time in high school.
Virtually every white person you meet was a nerd in a high school-it it is how they were able to get into a good arts program and law school. As such, their memories of high school are painful, but not tragic since they were able to eventually find success in the real world. Exploiting this information is your one way to ticket into the heart of a white person.
Your first priority must be to steer the conversation to the topic of high school, which is not very difficult. If you are talking about music, mention the music you think they would have liked in high school and how you were taunted for liking those bands. If you cannot properly gauge the type of music a white person liked in high school, you should always say that you were really into The Cure. All white people know that liking The Cure in high school is an invitation to be tortured by the cool kids. This will bring about instant sympathy and respect.
It is also acceptable to discuss how you were in love with a cool kid who never loved you back. For added effect, you can mention how said cool kid is now doing very poorly and that you are excited for the upcoming reunion.
If these first two points were not enough to gain an adequate level of trust, you can close the deal by saying: “I was the only <insert ethnicity> kid in Improv/on the paper/on student council.” Wait for a sympathetic look and then you will know that you have forged an unbreakable and easily exploited bond.
For maximum effectiveness, this technique should be used in a social group setting where everyone can share their stories. By guiding the conversation, you will be seen as a natural and sympathetic leader. This can be easily exploited for professional and social gain.
Note: In the rare encounter that you meet a white person who was “cool” in high school, do not panic. There is a 100% chance that one of their other cool friends sold them out in a coup for control of their social circle. Failing that, you can exploit the inherent guilt they feel about their treatment of nerds.
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I was linked to this website by a colleague who constantly references it to describe the personality of this young lad (a “hipster”) who works with us. I must say it is pretty much spot on, and explained in a funny yet articulate way. From an outsider’s perspective, it is not hard to see how that nerdy-White resentment and/or guilt is carried throughout the entire person’s live… and that it’s actually emphasized when they get older and these feelings translate into a belief system. That is why trends like environmentalism, far left politics, animal rights, etc., fail to connect with the general public (as they rely so heavily on societal guilt). But that’s going to take some time to explain, so I’ll leave it there.
My high school experience wasn’t that great either. I arrived half way through high school from a boys Catholic school in South America (which I did like), speaking in a heavily-accented broken English, and couldn’t really find my “place” in high school. The cool kids didn’t want me in their group me because I couldn’t connect with them culturally, and the nerds didn’t like me because I was good at sports and wasn’t into arts/music/video games*. I felt really isolated, but luckily that changed as soon as I went to university in the big city.
* Which is also funny because certain White people tend to show an initial interest in you solely because of your ethnic background (albeit in a very patronizing way) and then dislike you if they find you assertive or with a mind of your own.
Speaking of “musical” the entry title: they take away music (real instruments, classic melodies and vocal harmony) but have a “multicultural” course taught by a white liberal teacher, all they do is blab about “learning about other cultures” and plays a CD in class: rap/hip-hop albums full of the “N” word but can’t play “bad words” (edited versions) and the intellectual discussion about the song “lyrics”, er noise, on stereotypical poor African-American ghetto life.
Is that racist? I think so, because if you want to get technical and academically correct (not PC) about African American musical arts, why not study Ragtime, early Jazz, rhythm and blues, rockabilly and gospel sermons? To be fair and honest, those white liberals have the same set of minds like redneck racists from the deep south on what black people’s culture is (see also SWPL #116).
The school administrators want Spanish become the official language of some classrooms and semester courses of Chicano/Hispanic pre-1980 history to Latino (i.e. “illegal” immigrant) children. They have a teacher to pop in a video of Univision’s Tejano/Conjunto (the Texan country-western, brass or polka-like sounds) and Puerto Rican Reggateon (tropical and calypso or drum-beat sounds) music vids.
But that doesn’t teach white kids about Spanish-language musical arts at all, maybe the music corporate produced songs or videos have exposed Anglos to stereotypes of inner-city dwelling Boricuas and exaggerated depictions of street gang cholos, cowboy type chalinos, farm workers and “macho” deadbeat dads prey on oversexed hair-dyed teens, typically found of KKK pamphlets/Nazi propaganda of “protecting thee white blond girls from minority males”.
High school don’t teach crap anymore, NO real classes on math, english, history or science. Do away with PE or gym, give them 3 hours of homework per night and weekend projects, extend the school year to the summer until the teachers go on strike, increase school campus security by planting cops or locker checks, zero tolerance policies call for expulsion, saturday school detention, gender separate classrooms, race integrated bussing policies, the promotion of political leftist doctrine and the uber-reactionary parents made them do away with sex ed. (abstinence only, but the passing out of free condoms) and controversial classes on biological human evolution (are we descended from apes?). Publically funded high schools are a waste of tax payer money, watch a few of ‘em worse of the worse close down and the white lib elites/neo-cons take their kids to a private school next year. They really want to protect their teens’ from not developing depression and anxiety (they have it in record numbers) but let them play video games or the computer all day to stay safe from pedophile sex predators, while they get obese (plus the “free” public school lunch program full of fast food and junk) and brains mature less than their parents or grandparents have before them.
You REALLY don’t get this blog, do you?
Get over it.
High School was just a place we went to learn crap and deal with other kids.
Being okay with that fact doesn’t make you pathetic or delusional. How you look at your past nothing to do with who you were then but who you are now. If you’re happy now, you’re able to look back and think “Whatever, it wasn’t so bad…”. If not, you’re probably still looking for a scapegoat as to why your life is so messed up.
That said, I’m sure there are plenty of people who genuinely suffered in High School. I highly doubt you were one of them, though. (cue long, probably made-up stories about all the dreadful and sociopathic things done to people in high school)
White liberal Democrats we elected into office should make a law in every US state, territory or jurisdiction to do away with….mandatory school attendance for anyone under age 16/18. However, the National and state level teachers’ unions will oppose the law, and all those right-wing neo-con moralists too, in fear that making kids not having to go to school will lead to the collapse of society/ civilization.
I read on Yahoo news that Kansas City (KS or MO, don’t know which) will shut down half of its schools by next fall, and that’s a huge loss to the already failing city public school system. Who’s next to fail: NY City, Chicagoland, LA County & all the 50 states, public education is one big FAIL.
…and I forgot Washington DC! LOL, the nation’s capital is a federal government ward, thanks to the liberals in charge of everything there. To come & think of it, Ronald Reagan & the Bushes cut federal education funding to a point hardly any money is left to give in public schools anywhere else.
Jock two sizes larger than you threatening to kick your ass for existing, no charge.
Hot girls verbally “boo”ing your best effort to get your rubberband arms to do a pull up in front of gym, no charge.
A daily meal of questionable content and origin, $1.50. Same meal on the state sponsored food program that automatically put an uncrossable gap between you and the have it all suburban kids, no charge.
Being called a ‘faggot’ for liking music that industry marketers hadn’t yet coined the term ‘alternative’ and made popular yet, no charge.
Bad memories of High School becomming trendy, priceless.
All I’m wondering is when being pistol whipped for your ATM card to pull out your life savings of $50 or struck by a drunk driver will come into vogue. If bad luck is a fashion statement I’m a supermodel!
High never ever changes EVER. It will remain the same horrid institution until the end of time.
Tell me about it…..you’re totally right. It’s like a formula for misery. The variables may change but its all the same set up and the same crap.
Does anyone else think that people who liked high school and continue to talk about it even as they close in on social security, are either A) pathetic or B) delusional?
I usually think they were boring or privileged. Or both.
High school was not fun. But it was hella interesting. In a horrible journey kind of way.
High schools are nothing more than where physically adult people are treated worse than kindergardeners, they look like county jails in the outside and military schools in the inside…and Newsweek’s front cover on the report about public education says it right: WE MUST FIRE BAD TEACHERS.
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