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May 21, 2025 - Shameless Sperg - Chris Booth
15:23
Reddit Teacher's Unwanted Racial Realization
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Hey folks, it's the shameless Sperg.
Hope you're all doing well.
Saw something going around on Telegram today, and I just kind of just wanted to read it.
Found it interesting.
You know, I talk a lot about race, and there's so much to talk about, but of course, one of the things that's become increasingly a problem has been, you know, issues in the classroom.
And a lot of teachers are going through an absolute nightmare, you know, over it.
So let's hear from a Reddit thread, Reddit/slash advice from a user routine crew8651 says, my students are making me have racist thoughts, and I am really worried about what that means for me.
Uh-oh.
Let me, 26 female, preface this by saying that my parents raised me in an environment where they promoted acceptance and inclusivity of all kinds.
Hey, me too.
Growing up, I was always pro-immigration.
Not too much, but had and still have friends who were people of color.
I even dedicated a large portion of my career to help first-generation university students, international students, and students of underrepresented backgrounds from all over the world.
It's rewarding.
I myself was an international student and still struggled, although I grew up more privileged than 99% of the international students I've known.
It has all backfired in the last three to four months, and I'm worried about some of the thoughts that I've been having.
I began a new job some months ago lecturing at a university preparation program in Europe.
The students are essentially students from countries where they did not get an equivalent high school diploma and have to do this preparation program to qualify for bachelor programs.
They are mainly from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Egypt, Algeria, and Nigeria.
90% of them are guys, and the ages are usually between 17 and 22, so most of them are illegal adults.
Since I began, there have been so many behavioral issues.
Yeah, I'll bet.
I've worked previously as a substitute teacher in a European troubled middle school, a teacher's assistant in the U.S. for quite a few years, and as a lecturer in some private universities and professional development programs around Germany and the Netherlands.
This includes a similar prep program that I taught in for one intake, which lasted around 10 months.
It has never ever been this bad.
Not even half as bad.
I have not been able to finish a single sentence of lecture since I began.
Believe it.
Believe it.
I get talked over by a lot of the students.
They will not shut up.
I've tried raising my voice, yelling, silently staring at them, sitting down and not doing anything, removing them from the class, telling them that I won't teach until they are quiet.
Nothing, literally nothing works.
Okay.
Sorry, it's just.
You know, that's just 37 years of experience and fatigue.
That's laughing right now.
Some of the students have also called me names, commenting on my dressing, body weight, tattoos, hair, you name it.
They've also called me broke from my job, which is far from true, but still completely unacceptable.
They cheat on their attendance and lie about everything.
When I've confronted them in the past, I was physically intimidated by them and pushed into a corner and screamed at.
I have seen countless clips just like that.
Countless.
So, you know, this story is not particularly an outstanding story.
It's increasingly very common.
Let's see.
The university intervened, sort of.
They scolded me as well and offered training workshops to learn about cultural differences.
You hear that, guys?
Cultural differences.
The cultural differences, apparently, being that in their culture, it's appropriate to put their hands on a woman.
F that, I want no part of it.
Sure, you want a part of it.
You were always down for it.
You voted for it.
You probably called people evil who didn't want it.
I know you're a type.
The cultural differences apparently being that in their culture, did you not look into it ahead of time?
You know, or when people like me would try to warn you, you would just call us phobic or whatever.
You weren't listening.
And then you're going to act surprised when this shit happens.
You're going to act surprised.
That's incredible to me.
And it's just so exhausting.
You know, I mean, I'm glad she's sort of kind of snapping out of it, but only just barely.
And of course, you know, in many cultures, it's appropriate to do a whole lot more than put their hands on a woman.
You know what I mean?
And, you know, we've tried to point this out.
Like, look how women are treated over there.
You're xenophobed.
So she continues.
They're messy.
They drop trash on the floor and ask me to pick it up like I'm their servant.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Some of them have terrible hygiene as if they're five-year-olds.
You bet.
They think everything is up for grabs.
Give me that.
Give me that.
They sure do.
And have stolen my personal property before.
But the university asked me not to tell anyone and replaced my belongings because they were worried about their reputation.
That is how much the establishment copes for you people, for you non-whites.
It's how much the establishment copes and covers for you.
They absolutely do not want you to face any reputation damage for your behavior.
And that's just one of infinite examples.
And that's pretty a minor example, rather, of this issue.
It's unreal.
You know, I have never seen more excuses given, more passes given.
I have never seen more shit covered up for people than for you folks.
For you people of color and you immigrants and all that stuff.
The level of coping that they do to try to cover it all up for your benefit is just astounding.
And you're still so smug and you still have the nerve to call us oppressors.
You call us privileged and all this other shit.
Just look at that.
So she continues, being treated like this hurts.
I am not respected.
That's for sure.
I am not taken seriously.
People tell me every day I'm a bad teacher.
And in my previous jobs, I've had great teaching reviews.
Just not with this one.
I don't know.
I know.
You might not know, but I do.
The treatment is so poor.
I'm starting to have really, really nasty thoughts about these people.
Maybe you're having accurate thoughts about these people.
You know, maybe for once you're listening to your instincts and realizing that instincts are not evil.
And these thoughts are normal.
Maybe it's a part of your biological sort of, I don't know, evolutionary instinctive immunity.
You know, it's like an immune reaction to all this nonsense.
It's your body, your mind telling you you need to get the hell away from them.
And you do need to get the hell away from them.
Nothing about this is natural.
Thinking that this was going to work was the unnatural thing.
So she's having these really nasty thoughts about these people.
Oh no.
I'm hesitant to sit next to people like these in public transportation.
Good.
And generally avoid them because I worry that they will yell at me.
Good.
Avoid them.
Yes.
Touch me or just be mean.
Yeah, they'll do that.
I've looked at my student groups for the next semester and catch myself hoping for European or East Asian students instead.
Gee, I wonder why.
You know, it's almost like what we have to say about them is actually how it plays out in reality.
It's almost like the statistical data that we have actually bears out in reality.
You can see it in action and your instincts will tell you through observation and experience that it's right.
You know, that these horrible racist conclusions of ours are completely accurate.
So yeah, of course she's hoping for European or East Asian students.
Wouldn't you?
Yeah, you would.
Yeah, you would.
Don't even virtue signal like you wouldn't.
And if you do virtue signal, it's because you haven't had to deal with them.
Like so many of you people, I swear to God, there are so many of you people that are the loudest supporters of diversity and you're the loudest people to shame people like me.
And you've lived in your upper middle class or beyond existence where in your neighborhoods, maybe you had a couple of like well-to-do, well-to-do ones, you know, some of the, some of the good ones, the acceptable ones.
You know, and that's been, that's been the extent of your experience with immigrants and, you know, people of color and all that stuff is the cream of the crop, the pick of the litter, the exceptions, the ones for whom the other 90% make look bad.
Yeah, those are the ones you have experience with.
Meanwhile, a lot of us have experience with the other ones.
Most of them are not like that.
You know, most of them are not well-to-do.
Most of them are not well-educated, well-mannered.
Most of them did not have, you know, it's just, and I still have to hear it from people.
So, let's see, she continues, I have caught myself thinking that an Uber driver of a certain demographic is bad at their job and behaves in a nasty way just because he is of this background.
You are thinking correctly.
That is a correct thought.
Congratulations.
Not just because he maybe had a crappy day.
He may be having a crappy day because he's crappy genetics.
I don't know.
He maybe had a crappy day because he's crappy.
You know, maybe he just sucks.
I am starting to also lack sympathy for international students.
Good.
Which was what I wanted to dedicate my career for.
What a waste.
Don't dedicate your career for that.
I catch myself hoping for a load of these students to be deported.
Oh my God, at the very least.
And I'm hoping for the same.
This is not me.
Let it become you.
Okay?
You'll do a lot better in life.
You'll be a lot safer.
You'll make better, more informed decisions.
You won't keep navigating this life, still believing, still drinking the Kool-Aid of egalitarianism, inequality, like we're all the same when we're clearly not.
Yeah, whatever these thoughts are, it's not me.
It's me.
It's definitely me.
It didn't used to be, but it's definitely me.
And I suggest that she get on board and realize that it's best to just accept what her instincts are telling you and what her experience is telling you.
I have no idea what to do.
Get away from them.
As they say, never relax.
You know what I mean?
Get away from them is what you do.
So she has no idea what to do.
And she needs help before these attitudes bleed into her professional life.
Please tell me what to do.
Get away from them.
Get away.
Rethink your professional life.
Reimagine how you could use your education and your skills in some way.
What else are you going to do?
If you're going to keep, if you're going to keep doing the same thing, you're going to keep dealing with the same people.
It's only going to get worse.
Then you're going to end up like me, you know, on YouTube trying to navigate how to not get banned when you want to just lay it all out there.
Just incredible.
And of course, you know, like I said, a lot of teachers are dealing with this stuff.
And, you know, whether we're talking like over in the UK with all of their immigrants or in France or we're talking Germany or Sweden or we're talking every inner city in America and increasingly also even into the suburbs now.
It's not even just the ghetto areas.
You know, I just see a constant influx of stuff going on with teachers, with white teachers.
And now they're getting to the point where, you know, instead of trying to mitigate a situation in their classroom, instead of trying to break up a fight, you know, they're just kind of walking off and being like, fine, whatever.
I'm just leaving.
And I can't blame them.
And it's for the best.
And, you know, and I'm seeing plenty of situations where a teacher is just straight up getting sucker punched.
And I'm like, my God.
And these classrooms are a circus.
They're a circus.
I mean, they're worse than a circus because at least some circus involves some sort of like forethought training or whatever.
These people are just pack animals and they just act ridiculous.
The sheer chaos that they unleash in these classrooms, it's unreal.
So yeah, I mean, I just wanted to share that story.
This is not me.
Whatever these thoughts are, it's not me.
It's not you.
It's them.
And that's why you're having the thoughts.
It's them.
You didn't do anything.
You didn't do anything wrong.
You're just trying to teach.
And they're not teachable.
That's the point.
They're not teachable.
We keep trying to like trying to like apply standards to them, which have which we have historically applied to, you know, various European peoples, white Americans, things like that.
We cannot keep trying to make them fit into a mold they don't fit into.
It's actually unfair to both of us.
Like, it's unfair to set up a standard for them for which they're not naturally suited.
And it's unfair for us to be subjected to trying to have to do this or to even downgrade ourselves to try to help elevate them.
It's not good.
None of this is good.
We just need to go our separate way.
And, you know, you just know for a fact that if she were just dealing with Europeans in the classroom, none of this would be happening.
Europeans and East Asians.
She finds herself wishing for that precisely because she knows, as do all of you, that it would be better off.
They're smarter.
They're, you know, the Europeans and East Asians are smarter.
They are quieter.
They are more well-behaved.
They are orderly.
They are just a cakewalk to deal with compared to literally everyone else.
So just wanted to share that story with you.
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