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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Every once in while I think back to a day in French class where we had to grade other kids papers. The teacher, nice as she was, was kind of a doofus, and the classes tended to go right to the bell instead of finishing up a little before. She was also a teacher that liked us to keep all of our papers, so anything we turned in we ended up getting back, so at the end of this class everybody had to scramble to get the paper they were grading back to its owner.
I happened to be grading the paper of someone I didn't know, we'll say his name was Eddie. Not only did I not know Eddie, I hadn't before then been aware that there was anyone named Eddie in the class. So when the bell rang, I now had a piece of paper that I had no idea who to hand it to. I took a look around the room, knowing I needed to get rid of this thing quickly because my next class was across the school. Lot's of faces, none of them sent Eddie vibes.
I took one more look at the paper, and saw the last name was Kim. I think Kim could reasonably be an English surname, but I've never met any white people with the last name Kim. There is an Asian kid I see in class though, and there are more than a few Koreans named Kim. I also lived in an Army town, any Asians there were likely to be Koreans, so I walked over to him, handed him Eddie's paper, and rushed off to my next class.
I never spoke a word to that kid before or after, so to this day I don't know that this was in fact his paper. If I were to bet, I think the odds would favor his being Eddie, but it does boil down to an assumption based on appearance.
I bring this up only because I don't often see lots of stories about biases or assumptions told from the point of view of the person making a projection on another person. I don't think that people can learn everything by having half a conversation, which does seem to be what our society seems to have in regards to racism and cultural and racial bias. Hopefully some civil (and maybe even educational) discussion can be had before this is inevitably locked.
I happened to be grading the paper of someone I didn't know, we'll say his name was Eddie. Not only did I not know Eddie, I hadn't before then been aware that there was anyone named Eddie in the class. So when the bell rang, I now had a piece of paper that I had no idea who to hand it to. I took a look around the room, knowing I needed to get rid of this thing quickly because my next class was across the school. Lot's of faces, none of them sent Eddie vibes.
I took one more look at the paper, and saw the last name was Kim. I think Kim could reasonably be an English surname, but I've never met any white people with the last name Kim. There is an Asian kid I see in class though, and there are more than a few Koreans named Kim. I also lived in an Army town, any Asians there were likely to be Koreans, so I walked over to him, handed him Eddie's paper, and rushed off to my next class.
I never spoke a word to that kid before or after, so to this day I don't know that this was in fact his paper. If I were to bet, I think the odds would favor his being Eddie, but it does boil down to an assumption based on appearance.
I bring this up only because I don't often see lots of stories about biases or assumptions told from the point of view of the person making a projection on another person. I don't think that people can learn everything by having half a conversation, which does seem to be what our society seems to have in regards to racism and cultural and racial bias. Hopefully some civil (and maybe even educational) discussion can be had before this is inevitably locked.
Also nb4 Snakes on Plane jokes.
