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"I guess maybe this is what happens in white suburban schools?" "[I]n real life Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies just show up ..." Jesus and Jos
by _pius 16y ago
"I guess maybe this is what happens in white suburban schools?"
"[I]n real life Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies just show up ..."
Jesus and Jose? Homies? Just. Stop.
Was it really necessary to inject some sort of pathetic, dogwhistle racial component into this? Why are you trying to cast a universal problem like bullying into a phenomenon where the scary minorities are picking on white kids?
- neworbit 16y agoCurious assumption that it's the white kids who are getting picked on...
- _pius 16y agoThat was the implication, yes.
- maxawaytoolong 16y agoWhy did you assume I meant white kids were getting picked on? What? I specifically said I was NOT teaching in white, suburban schools.
- _pius 16y agoEven if I got that part wrong, the main point stands. Definitely no need to make this a discussion about "José" and his "homies."
- vorg 16y agoAre we just talking about the US here? Perhaps Canada and Australia have a similar situation, but I'd imagine every country/region has a different story. The blog writer, though, was in Hong Kong, where even teachers get bullied by students in high school. Cross the border into the mainland, and the bully will keep themselves well hidden, using proxies to do the dirty work.