The dumbest kid in my class in the USSR, who was so dumb we literally thought he was retarded, became a history professor in the US, and I’m not even kidding.
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The dumbest kid in my class in the USSR, who was so dumb we literally thought he was retarded, became a history professor in the US, and I’m not even kidding.
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How I wish you could give us his name! [I know you can’t.]
That X post drips with social contempt to the point that it looks like a manifestation of social hatred and class-based envy. It makes me think of the way Bolsheviks expressed themselves.
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Exhibit A in “How the Democrats lost the working class”
-ethyl
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A hatred of law enforcement is also evidence of a weak father complex. Good dad means a good, positive attitude to law enforcement. I like police. They are there to improve the conditions of my life. I like people in the military. I like people who work for ICE. I just generally respect law enforcement. And I had an excellent relationship with my clinically non-violent and and extremely intellectual dad.
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—The dumbest kid in my class in the USSR, who was so dumb we literally thought he was retarded, became a history professor in the US, and I’m not even kidding.
You refer to him as “he”, and he grew up in Ukraine, so with 99% probability he is a white male. So he must have gotten his US position on merit. It is quite possible that the rest of you just shat on some poor autistic kid that was too different. Or with poor social skills. I get it, you did not know any better. But using it as an argument now is very weird… looks to me like trying to bend reality to your model of reality.
In resoponse to Avi – hatered – yes. But it is not about class, it is about people capable of violence, especially while advancing the agenda the author of the post disagrees with. I am not him, so I do not know if he is enviuous or not, but for me there is zero envy. I would not take this kind of job for any money.
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I think there’s a class element in there. Leftists love public sector unions and have an immense capacity to tolerate dumbness and incompetence within their ranks, but hate police unions with a passion. Because in 2026 that’s the one public sector well-paying union job that doesn’t require going into debt for a master’s degree in basket weaving.
Agree with the rest of your post.
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I know several people who have seriously contemplated taking that job: because they are ex-military, they are patriots, and it pays better than anything else offering to someone without a master’s degree right now. Downside: travel. Not family-friendly.
All working-class white men.
I certainly read it as “you peons don’t deserve to make a living wage”.
Median household income is 84k now. In most places that’s not enough to buy a house on, if you already have a family. 100k is enough to boost a lot of families just over that particular hurdle. The left these days seems to have a huge animus toward productive non-degree-holders making enough money to support a family or own a house. Is it because so many of them cannot find jobs that will pay of their student loans?
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I do not know, ethyl. It is indeed possible that I have limited ability to properly put myself into the shoes of the American left, and therefore am projecting my own state of mind on them incorrectly.
I am in STEM, so my degree is not in basketweaving. I am educated in Eastern Europe so I do not have student loans. I am educated in Eastern Europe at the time of the economic crisis, and I have done a lot of blue-collar stuff while I was a student, so I do not have aversion or prejustice against it. I sometimes joke that if our university goes to shit, I can work as a truckdriver…
I think the left is not a homogeneous soup, and different people within the left have different reasons to believe what they believe.
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It would be great if these people explained their different reasons. Everybody seems to say that, of course, they are against open borders. And of course they are against eviscerating labor by underpaying illegals. And of course they are in favor of welfare protections. And of course they are in favor of free comprehensive public education. And of course they are in favor of free healthcare at least on the basic level. And of course due process and rights are crucial. And of course they are in favor of pensions for retirees. But they are also against the only thing that can make all these things possible but they just wouldn’t explain how they make that work in their own minds. Other than “I want everything to be good and nothing to be bad”, no argument is being advanced on how to achieve these great things by undermining the foundation of their existence.
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I also don’t see why it’s supposed to be a particularly repellent job. The duties of the job go against the “primacy of individual choice” mentality, so maybe that is it. Why is it bad to remove people who are here illegally? Because they want to be here. We should respect choices. There’s nothing beyond this that anybody has even tried to advance as an explanation.
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I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. This is simply a funny story to me. Some people are late bloomers. My own husband didn’t know the letters of the alphabet at age 7 but he knew how to set a building on fire and practiced that skill avidly. He was an illiterate juvenile delinquent and arsonist as a pre-teen. And then look what happened. 😆😆
The kid I wrote about wasn’t autistic or socially incapable. He was a big, nasty bully who couldn’t read in fifth grade. He was expelled for knocking a small kid’s teeth out.
What happened after that I don’t know and as a pedagogue I’d love to find out. But clearly something big took place and this kid grew up to become a big asset to society.
I’ve worked with juvenile delinquents and I know that you can absolutely turn even the most violent child around if you know what you are doing.
We did have an autistic kid in our class and I’ll post about him later today. It’s also a fascinating story.
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