Friday, February 10, 2023

Sniping at Each Other

Digital art. Sixth period. 

It had been a weird art day. The classes were mostly silent. (Art classes are generally very talkative.) So, sixth period gave me a bit of culture shock when they weren't. 

Of course, the class was filled with mostly freshmen...

Two boys were sniping at each other from across the room. One insulted the other boy's hair. The other questioned the first boy's sports prowess. And on it went. 

Then:

Boy 1: "Stay in your corner, big man." (By his tone of voice, he meant "big" as "fat".)

Boy 2: "Stay at McDonalds, big man." 

This exchange got everyone's attention. It was repeated twice by others as some had missed the nuances. (Picture me shaking my head.) Someone chimed in to say that boy 2 was being racist. 

Boy 2: "Not gonna lie, that was kinda racist."

Another boy entirely: "You both are the same race!"

Ah, the joys of freshmen...

17 comments:

  1. They're only freshman in high school. They haven't learned the actual meanings of words. 🙄

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  2. Shaking my head. Freshmen being freshmen.

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  3. This is lightweight stuff and almost but not entertaining. I heard conversations with adults insulting each other firing ugly horrible words across the street at each other, lol.

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  4. It can still be racist! I wonder if they are like that with their regular teacher? Freshman boys are especially young acting, I think. Mature later than the girls for sure.

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    1. It's an art class, so I assume they generally converse while working. The 12th grade AP art academy class had some wild conversations, too, but those were less racially charged.

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  5. Racism can be so subtle. (deletes paragraph giving examples)

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    1. It can be. That school is so racially diverse that they may be more aware of things like that. (Name a race. There's probably a student who is that race that attends.)

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  6. At the ages of these kids, today, they don't understand the filters they need to have on the mouth. Thinking it can be bad enough, voicing it is the worst.

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  7. Calling each other 'big man' is kinda funny given that they're freshman.

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    1. They meant fat. It was clear from their tone, which is something I couldn't quite convey in words.

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