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<p>Don’t know about now, but when I was a student there, the locals from the town and nearby areas who would taunt college students with racist, sexist, homophobic taunts/actions ranging from drive-by harassment to being told to speak English on a public street* weren’t done by Oberlin high school kids. </p>
<p>Instead, the demographic tended to be older ne’er do wells ranging from 20-late middle age. </p>
<p>Maybe high school aged students were also involved…but that wasn’t my experience during the mid-late '90s. </p>
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<li>Happened to me while speaking in Mandarin with some Chinese international students on a public street. Busybody “speak English” jerk seemed late middle age with a mix of possible racist motives and a “get off my lawn” vibe. Didn’t think much of it as I responded by giving him a lecture on civics and the First Amendment giving me the right to use whatever damned language I pleased on a public street in the US of A. IMO…he’s the one who looked like he had egg on his ignorant busybody face.</li>
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