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LMAO! He was probably like WTF? How do you not remember me and my locker was next to yours. In that “how popular were you?” thread, I remember you ranking yourself (whatever the highest number was) in high school as crazy high. That’s probably why. The popular kids didn’t socialize with the kids who weren’t popular. I was mid-grade level on the popularity spectrum, leaning toward popular because I lived in detention for always being the class clown and making people laugh at the teacher’s expense. But I was cool with everybody though. But those kids like you who were real popular, they only hung around other really popular kids. Did he look like he could have been a nerdy dude?
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I wasn’t like that. I was chatty and friendly with pretty much everyone.
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Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands
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Why? First off, why is anyone shocked? A racist country acting racist isn’t news? it’s consistency.
The United States puts slaveholders and white supremacists on its currency, teaches sanitized history, and ignores constitutional violations when it’s politically convenient. But suddenly people clutch pearls when the racism is blatant? Whatever.
Ya know what? This country doesn’t reject racism, it rejects racism that’s too obvious to deny. That’s the real issue.
I’m less concerned with the pompous asshole who never should’ve been on the ballot than with the fact that racism here is embedded, institutional, normalized, monetized, and memorialized. Then people have the audacity to say, “OMG! Apologize! Take it down! This is unheard of!…. “
Unheard of? Umm… we have bigots in office and a whole collection of them on our money and monuments. Fix that first.
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