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- Dec 24, 2014
Now I'm thinking of my Intro to Lit professor I had for the fall of 2016 semester. She was a Hilary fangirl and annoying about it. She's middle aged and a white as hell Jew. I remember on election day, one guy said he wasn't going to vote and she decided to lecture him. She started before class ended and it went on way after class ended. I had another class in the same room and she was still going when the next teacher arrived. So it lasted 15 minutes, minimum. The thing I remember best was her telling him that he had to vote because he's black and black people in the past died for the right to vote. That was so awkward that I would have backed the kid up if he had slapped her. I skipped the next class but apparently she went on for nearly a half hour about the election results. The class a week after the election, the Mexican kid said he wasn't afraid of Trump and she tried to tell him that he should be. This Trump related ramble went on only 15 minutes.
She also said she would not focus on Dead White Men in class, which we wound up doing anyway. I remember that she heard me say that 'Howl' sounded like it was written on acid and she started rambling about how it totally wasn't and how saying things like that was not good. So calling me out, but not really. She also has a son and I forget how it came up, but the kid is half black, which explains a few things. Also, the school is near DC and she lives in DC. When that guy went to Comet Ping Pong with a gun, she focused more on how it was near her home and she went there with her son all the time. The class also frequently devolved into random yelling.
Best way to shut up an idiot like that who lectures people who don't vote, is point out that whatever district the person is in, who's (usually) in the seat, what party, and if the person who doesn't vote is the same party as the person in the house/senate seat, then indeed what the heck IS the point? And if the person's state already voted for (electoral college) the candidate the person most agreed with, again, what's the point? Doesn't make any difference. And if they're the opposite party of whatever's in the slot, if the incumbent always wins by a HUGE margin (and I mean huge as in, the other party doesn't even bother to run an opposing candidate, like EVER, and hasn't in the past say, 50 years), it ALSO doesn't matter, so leave person that didn't vote the hell alone.