such tolerance

The other day I got a friend request on Facebook.  She was a high school classmate I knew but didn't hang with.  I mean, we knew each other and talked but didn't have much more involvement than that.  I accepted her request on that basis.  This morning I went on her page.

She's a Jewish substitute teacher who has two main complaints.  Misbehaving kids and people who don't hate Trump.

I wondered if she bothered to look over my page before sending a friend request.  Maybe she just assumed I was like almost everyone else from our class who worshiped socialism and the weathermen.  Back then I was an anarchist and was down with anything that would poke a stick in the eye of the establishment.  I wanted to go to Cuba and chop sugarcane with the peasants just to be part of the last Marxist state before it's downfall.  Not to be part of a Marxist state but to experience history in the making.  There's a difference.

As I perused her page I came across a comment someone made that suggested Trump was popular.  A one liner.  A statement of fact.  Not even controversial.
In her most condescending, teacher-like vocabulary she made it clear he was wrong and his attitude was out of line with hers and because of that she was blocking him from making any more comments on her page.   The comments after this ouster, from other more progressive enlightened ones, reflected the hateful mood and contempt these poor assholes have for anyone who slightly deviates from their perceived norm.  Oooo... such tolerance!

I immediately considered de-friending this woman but perished the thought.  By doing so I would be just as intolerant as her and her ilk who eliminate friends as easily as switching off a light.  I decided to do nothing and keep this "friend" for observation, to understand what makes these people do what they do and act as they act.

One of her FB friends was a friend of mine in high school, as were his three brothers.  One collected Nazi memorabilia, another was a Stalin devotee who became a history teacher in the mid-west. and the other was in my home room.  When the pledge of allegiance was said, we would defiantly sit with our arms crossed and when it came to "liberty and justice for all" we would yell out, EVERYBODY.  The brother who became a teacher used to give me books from his college courses.  One book was Three Who Made A Revolution, glorifying the efforts of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin in their overthrow of Czarist Russia and introducing the USSR.  I still have that book, as well as Steal This Book by Abby Hoffman, which I stole from Diane Shamus.

We were kids back then and we all knew our role in life was to stick it to the man and fight authority.  Teachers were the ultimate authority and substitute teachers were easy targets for abuse.  I assume socialists gravitate to the teaching profession to spread their rancid philosophy while being the ultimate authority to boss smaller people around.  Substitutes get less pay than a regular teacher.  They should do it for free, since they are so against capitalism. 

I wonder if putting up with misbehaving kids is her reward or punishment.  I also wonder if her kids misbehave because of their natural revulsion to socialist propaganda as a tool to control the masses.

I'm not here to judge, which is more than I can say about this Jewish, socialist, Trump hating, substitute teacher, but I'll be keeping an eye on her arrested development for research purposes.        

Winston Churchill once said, anyone under 30 who isn't a socialist has no heart and anyone over 30 that isn't a capitalist has no brain.

That's all we need... more brainless teachers.