A Unique Moment
I just got a fortune cookie that told me:
SEIZE FROM EVERY MOMENT ITS UNIQUENESS
Seems like great advice. Here's my first seizure.
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This guy I know just loves to tell stories about his kids.
(That fact alone is usually enough to send me looking for somebody else to hang out with. I'm guessing you feel the same way, because nobody wants to hear how cute anyone else's kids are. We don't want to see pictures, hear about sick they were last night, or buy chocolate at a obscene markup for the school music program. It's not really our problem.
Of course, this is no secret to anyone who's ever read a week's worth of "Dilbert" or, you know, met another human being in their life, but apparently as soon as you have a kid you forget all of that. You forget how much you hated parents like you are now, and instead you tell anything that's stationary for more than three seconds the story of how Johnny pulled down his pants in the restaurant last Sunday.)
Anyway, this particular story is about his seven year old girl. I won't bore you with the details, but the gist is that it turns out she's a racist. She doesn't like brown or black people, she doesn't like being in a building with too many of them, and she's happy that she's white and not like them.
Just to remind you...seven years old.
Huh. Your first question is naturally, "What is he going to do about this?" And the answer is...nothing. Dad doesn't feel like he wants to "brainwash" the kid. He doesn't want to indoctrinate her. She's going to find her own way.
And now you're sick. You're sick because this is an extremely nice guy with no racism in his heart that you've ever seen, and you are watching him mentally kneecap his kid. He might as well take her in to be lobotomized--at least then she'd have a good excuse for being stupid. Instead, she's going to go through life in the most multi-cultural city of a society that is supposed to idealize equality and she's going to be mentally retarded. On purpose.
Now, as everyone knows, the ugly flip side of the "Parent-Who-Can't-Stop-Talking-About-Their-Kid" coin is the "Acquaintence-Who-Knows-How-To-Parent-Your-Kid." No parent is going to take your advice on child rearing as anything other than an insult. Especially when your advice IS an insult, which mine was.
So the world has one more racist. I've met her, and her father is right--she's REALLY cute.
SEIZE FROM EVERY MOMENT ITS UNIQUENESS
Seems like great advice. Here's my first seizure.
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This guy I know just loves to tell stories about his kids.
(That fact alone is usually enough to send me looking for somebody else to hang out with. I'm guessing you feel the same way, because nobody wants to hear how cute anyone else's kids are. We don't want to see pictures, hear about sick they were last night, or buy chocolate at a obscene markup for the school music program. It's not really our problem.
Of course, this is no secret to anyone who's ever read a week's worth of "Dilbert" or, you know, met another human being in their life, but apparently as soon as you have a kid you forget all of that. You forget how much you hated parents like you are now, and instead you tell anything that's stationary for more than three seconds the story of how Johnny pulled down his pants in the restaurant last Sunday.)
Anyway, this particular story is about his seven year old girl. I won't bore you with the details, but the gist is that it turns out she's a racist. She doesn't like brown or black people, she doesn't like being in a building with too many of them, and she's happy that she's white and not like them.
Just to remind you...seven years old.
Huh. Your first question is naturally, "What is he going to do about this?" And the answer is...nothing. Dad doesn't feel like he wants to "brainwash" the kid. He doesn't want to indoctrinate her. She's going to find her own way.
And now you're sick. You're sick because this is an extremely nice guy with no racism in his heart that you've ever seen, and you are watching him mentally kneecap his kid. He might as well take her in to be lobotomized--at least then she'd have a good excuse for being stupid. Instead, she's going to go through life in the most multi-cultural city of a society that is supposed to idealize equality and she's going to be mentally retarded. On purpose.
Now, as everyone knows, the ugly flip side of the "Parent-Who-Can't-Stop-Talking-About-Their-Kid" coin is the "Acquaintence-Who-Knows-How-To-Parent-Your-Kid." No parent is going to take your advice on child rearing as anything other than an insult. Especially when your advice IS an insult, which mine was.
So the world has one more racist. I've met her, and her father is right--she's REALLY cute.
posted by Matthew at 2:26 PM
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