<p>@joshmay94 Aww poor rich kid, you have to deal with people who aren’t like you what a shame.</p>
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then why didn’t you just say people walking slowly in the hallways? if that’s what’s bothering you (instead of their skin color), their race really isn’t relevant…</p>
<p>also, adding to the list:
-people who say racist things then pretend like it’s ok because they have a ‘minority’ friend.</p>
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<li><p>When everyone thinks that someone is SUCH a nice and sweet person, when in truth, if you know her well enough or listen to her closely enough, she can be a real b****!</p></li>
<li><p>When people constantly pick on one person.</p></li>
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<p>3.When people do stuff or say stuff or wear stuff that just screams, “I WANT ATTENTION!”</p>
<ol>
<li><p>How bad people make me feel when they do better than me on some assignment.</p></li>
<li><p>These girls in my school who before school officially starts act like a herd of animals, screaming and with absolutly no self-control. I get so p***** off. And they NEVER get in trouble. It amazes me.</p></li>
<li><p>When popular kids don’t get in trouble for something but you do for doing the exct same thing. Example: At my school, every day for the part week or so, the popular senior guys have been throwing food ACROSS THE CAFETERIA, ergo in blatant line of sight of the cafeteria supervisors. But when I try to throw a teeny bag of baby carrots onto the tray of a friend that was sitting TWO SEATS AWAY, I get scolded…</p></li>
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<p>
SO MUCH TRUTH!!! 100% agreed!!!</p>
<p>1) People who try to act really smart to a teacher when in fact they make themselves look more dumb every time they try to speak up. This kid in my chemistry class just LOVES to kiss my teacher’s a*s. I swear, I’m so tired of hearing him say, “So, in theory…” while stroking his imaginary beard. Just irritates me a lot. You’re not smart. You make straight C’s. No one thinks you’re smart. No one likes you.</p>
<p>Anyway…
2) When walking in the hallway quickly turns into a simulation of real-life car traffic.
<em>see someone way ahead of you walking slow</em>
“Oh, no problem. They’ll turn into this classroom more than likely.”
<em>end up right behind them</em>
“I’ll just pass them. No big.”
<em>they start swaying/walking diagonally in the hallway to where you’re trying to pass</em></p>
<p>OR when you’re behind a couple and can’t get around them and you feel like a massive creeper. </p>
<p>3) Competition among grades. Good God. Competitiveness about Homecoming? Rock on. Competitiveness with your fellow classmates over who pwned the precal exam harder? Get off your high horse.</p>
<p>4) Loud classes. The only AP that I’m taking this year is a class of 28 people that WILL. NOT. SHUT. UP. You may not care about AP Exams, but I sure as hell do.</p>
<p>5) “AW HOMEWORK WAAAAHHHHHH” Homework sucks. We get it. No one enjoys it. I can’t recall a time where I’ve been thinking to myself, “Thank God! I thought tonight was gonna be quiet and stress free! Thank goodness I have these essays to write to keep me occupied! Thanks, Mr. Teacher! You’re the best! :D” But we have to do it. It’s high school—it’s AP. Homework is pretty common now. Don’t want massive flood of homework? Don’t take AP or honors. AP=guaranteed homework at least three times a week. Pretty basic concept, or so I thought.</p>
<p>^Lol I do 3,4, and 5. </p>
<p>And I agree with 1. There is this kid and he is so ANNOYING!!! He is just like that! But the teachers love him at first but now they’re even annoyed with him</p>
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<p>Congratulations, sir! This is, quite possibly, the single most racist thing I have read today. You might want to give this article a gander and do a bit of internet research to find out why what you said is so unacceptably offensive:</p>
<p>“But I’m Not Racist; I Have Black Friends”
by Prerna Lal · September 13, 2010 </p>
<p>*I bet you’ve heard someone use that statement as a defense, at least once in your lifetime. Heck, “I have black friends” even made the Urban Dictionary as a phrase used to qualify racist words and behavior.</p>
<p>When it comes to playing the race card, there is little doubt that “I have black friends” is right up there with the Joker and a sibling to “I’m not racist but…” on most days. But ultimately, there’s been a failure on our part to communicate that racism is not merely about relationships, words or emotions. These are merely elements or tools used to entrench racism. Having racial and ethnic minority friends does not excuse racist words and behavior. Someone who uses the “I have black friends” card is misinformed and misunderstands racism as just individual acts.</p>
<p>In fact, racism is not merely prejudice or bigotry. It is not merely a belief or a doctrine that can be corrected by having friends who have a slightly darker skin color. Racism is discrimination backed by institutionalized power. It is systemic. Racism is an ongoing inter-related set of social processes, backed by actions and discourses, that favors a dominant group over other legally constructed minority groups.</p>
<p>I wonder if a racial minority accused of racism can get away with saying “I’m not racist, I have white friends!” Probably not.</p>
<p>So what do we do about the tea-bagger who has a black friend? We must confront individuals about their offensive words and acts in a way that forces us to also confront the system. It is probably more strategic to say “I think what you said or did was racist” rather than “you are racist.” The former focuses on actions whereas the latter targets the actor. If s/he says “I’m not racist, I have black friends,” it is easier to counter that you aren’t talking about her or his interpersonal relationships with racial and ethnic minorities. You are talking about how her or his words and actions perpetuate racism.*</p>
<p>[“But</a> I’m Not Racist; I Have Black Friends” | Change.org News](<a href=“http://news.change.org/stories/but-im-not-racist-i-have-black-friends]"But”>http://news.change.org/stories/but-im-not-racist-i-have-black-friends)</p>
<p>Excerpt from another:</p>
<p>*"…His choice of phrase will, depressingly, be all too familiar to black people: “I am no racist, but…”; “I love black people, but…”; “I am all for justice, but…”</p>
<p>That is the usual formulation of the inane rationalisations offered by many white people when a black person complains of some wicked deed committed against him or her by white racists. Another form is the “I have many black friends” variety, favoured by, say, a football manager who had racially abused a black player on TV but claimed he was all right because he’d helped many black players in the past.</p>
<p>It is about time white people learnt that you can not feel the full impact of racist abuse unless you are the victim of racist abuse yourself. Racial abuse is the most devastating form of insult possible. The injustice of it lies in the fact that the abuse does not result from anything the victim has done, but just from the colour of his or her skin - something completely beyond his or her control or intervention."*</p>
<p>[I’m</a> not racist, but … | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk](<a href=“http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/apr/10/cameronduodunooneisracist]I’m”>I'm not racist, but ... | Cameron Duodu | The Guardian)</p>
<p>These articles address the particular phenomenon that attacks African Americans, but please understand that any marginalized group may be substituted in the “But I have ___ friends!” trope. See: [“Me</a> biased against the group? No, some of my best friends are of that group!” - racism bigotry phrase | Ask MetaFilter](<a href=“http://ask.metafilter.com/31504/Me-biased-against-the-group-No-some-of-my-best-friends-are-of-that-group]"Me”>"Me biased against the group? No, some of my best friends are of that group!" - racism bigotry phrase | Ask MetaFilter)</p>
<p>Finally:
RACISM (n): 1. the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others
2. abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief</p>
<p>I sure don’t see the magical clause you mention that a certain degre of conforming to a stereotype makes that stereotype stop being a stereotype. I do, however, see reference to the sort of generalizations you made. Again,*** you are making sweeping generalizations about a vast group of people, and you need to stop and think before you take that bigotry farther.***</p>
<p>Kudos to smwhtslghtlydzed, who said it perfectly.</p>
<p>Amen to Blue94’s post</p>
<p>aarelle posts the truth.</p>
<p>Way to put words in my mouth jackass. I’m not the one that said that aarelle.</p>
<p>The d-bags (always male) who feign enthusiasm with obnoxious yelling, clapping, cheering whenever there’s a speaker in front of the class, in the auditorium etc.</p>
<p>Shoutout to this one pimply-faced ******* who pulls that BS all the time at my school. You are living the dream, my friend. Congrats…</p>
<p>@aarelle:“I wonder if a racial minority accused of racism can get away with saying “I’m not racist, I have white friends!” Probably not.”</p>
<p>Your entire post is disproved by this. It is pretty damn close to a 100% chance that anything a minority does to a white person is never deemed racist. Instead it just means “oh they have ethnic pride” or other BS.</p>
<p>and to back the person you’re bagging on:
RACISM (n): 1. the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others: yes, believing some people are rude falls in line with that -.-
2. abusive or aggressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such a belief: no he wasn’t aggressve</p>
<p>Seriously guys, what is so bad about his post?
“But this year we started offering them full ride scholarships (which *<strong><em>es me the *</em></strong> off) and the school is crashing fast. They’re rude and disruptive in the hallways, chronically late to class, blast their ghetto **** music, call each other racial derogatives (which if I said I would be suspended) and generally act like animals in the hallway.”
If I could get you statistics of these occurences at my school, i can guarantee you that there is an extremely strong correlation with minorites and the above problems. Though I wouldn’t say it is because they are “black, latino, etc,” but rather because of their socio-economic status and “slacker” culture.
If “animal” means loud, rambunctious, disrespectful, then how is it a derogatory term? If a white kid was described as acting like an animal it would be perfectly fine.</p>
<p>Get off your high horses! Seriously. Instead of judging anything based on race, judge it based on character. IE, don’t say “that kid is black, hes going to stab me” (funny story though, the last kid to stab someone at our school was a minority) say “that disrespectful kid…blahblahblah.” If you wanna call white kids hoodlums because they act that way, do it. If 90% of the white kids there are obnoxious, you can say “the white kids are obnoxious.” The same for any other race. It is correlation. Not causation in that they are obnoxious because of their race. The poster never said that the minorities act like animals because theyre minorites. So get off his freaking back! Seriously, self-rightgeous people like you po me so bad. If this were real life I would fight you!</p>
<p>This man speaks the truth ^</p>
<p>@darkwalrus:</p>
<p>Why’d you get soo mad? Hahahah. There’s no need to get so defensive when what the kid said was obviously ill-intentioned. I agree with a lot of what you said with the “no need to mention race” thing, but is it really necessary to say “if this was real life, we’d fight” cause that’s just ridiculous.</p>
<p>Lol this thread is getting crazy. But seriously we should coll it down.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Racism only becomes a big deal when you make a big deal of it.</p>
<p>Cooling down is a great idea!</p>
<p>Good idea TheASP. Let’s get back to the main topic.</p>
<p>Lol, what was the topic again? Oh right. Annoyingness.</p>
<p>I find it annoying when students change their opinions just to fit in.</p>
<p>1.People who blindly do everything the teacher says. Example: My latin teacher started this stupid intense review course and jokey told us to get lots of caffeine since his class is first hour. My friend with her DUMB self took it seriously and went way out of her way to get a 32+oz of Coke to drink. That was her first time in years drinking pop/soda/whatever you call it, and guess what surprise surprise she got sick afterwards. </p>
<p>2.Students who act like they understand the material so the teacher likes them. Like seriously you go to school to LEARN! Whenever I don’t understand something I’m going to speak up. Its their job to teach us!! UGH! Fake butt people (had to censor myself there. </p>
<p>3.Students who copy down word for word everything on a presentation. They take FOREVERR and hold up the class.</p>
<p>^Hmm I never get #3.</p>