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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

I still remember in the 8th grade when my teacher told my entire class that if we were all slaves, I would probably be the only one to actually fight back

This was probably because earlier that year, I wrote a paper about John Brown and how he was my hero because he was willing to do what was right regardless of the cost

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember in 8th grade I was very capitalist and conservative, or so I thought. We were learning about the inequality behind the Olympics and at one point she asked the class to raise their hand if they would prefer that the “1%’s” wealth be redistributed so the poor suffer less. Only me and one other raised our hands lol. She said “congratulations. You two are socialists.” It’s lib as hell but still got me thinking about what I actually value vs. what I think I valued.

She also happily - smiles and all - recounted a story where her professor said the US deserved 9/11 as it was happening, and she didn’t follow it up with telling us that her professor was wrong for saying it lol.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I remember in 8th grade I was very capitalist and conservative

I remember when I was in 8th grade I was wondering how the animorphs gang was going to escape their next conundrum; and people here be like "I was a Randian libertarian" lol

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be fair I was barely in high school when Trump got elected so everything was suddenly getting politicized and before that Americans got complicit with 8 years of “boring” Obama, so no one really talked about politics.

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

based 8th grade teacher

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

That is a very weird thing to say unless I guess you're teaching a class of all white kids or you and the teacher are both black. Cause I'm thinking back to my school experience if a teacher said that they'd be treading in some dangerous ground.

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