Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Post Racist..... tastes like crocodile tears.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Post Racist..... tastes like crocodile tears.

I was reading through a clutch of poli-stuff this morning, and this piece came up. It's basically a rantish scree on Joe Biden, and his having to suffer the world he and his party created.

"By any sane standard, Joe Biden is not a racist. He’s a clod, a creepy leech, terminally dumb, and he says cringy things (including about race), but the idea that he harbors any vicious hatred for people based on their race is really, really far-fetched. Sure, there’s a statistically insignificant chance that Sleepy Floppy Gropey Joe is really Seggy Joe, wistfully recalling the days of segregation and Jim Crow – after all, those are Democrat inventions – but it’s … unlikely. But that doesn’t matter. The Social Justice Whiners who totally dominate the Democrat Party have made sure that neither he nor any of the other liberals fighting for the chance to be crushed by Donald Trump in 2020 will be measured by any sane standard."

What comes to my mind as I read this? The thought that so, so many race haters and race manipulators would truly HATE spending a day in my class.

My students run the full spectrum of race/sex/religion/orientation and nationality. Almost always a full spread every course.

Here's what would make the haters cry; There is no animosity amongst my students, generally. They all work together and support each other. The make fun of each other. They help each other. they all work together. They study together. They eat lunch together. They socialize after school together. They behave like sane, happy, non-hatey people.... and that would drive the divisive racists insane.

The dempub political manipulators are rendered powerless in the face of simple decent people, like my kids.

What makes it worse for the very people heckling Creepy Joe right now? I teach my students to THINK. That alone would drive the leadership of both parties right back under the rocks they came from.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"