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That passage really bugs me. I'm a white guy who grew up in a heavily white suburb, and this kind of racism is so pervasive in that environment. It's hard to describe, but this is a good example of it. It's like, maybe not overt hostility to others who aren't white, but just sort of treating them as an "other" who doesn't belong in your group; all the while just perpetuating stereotypes because why not, they're an "other" after all.
Also bugs me that on some superficial level, people like Shapiro and damn near every white person I knew growing up would look at that selection and vigorously defend it as being totally not racist.
It's the old fascist propaganda trick of imagining an enemy who is simultaneously impossibly strong and incredibly weak.
This guy is a massive ogre, a high school terror, impervious to sanction because he's a jock and a favorite of the football coach and aware enough of his ahem privilege ahem that he can casually abuse it.
At the same time, he's "headed straight for a lifetime of prison", implying that he has no self-discipline or street sense. He's operating on the low-cunning of a high school athlete and doomed to run afoul of Righteous Law Enforcement Officers. He'll inevitably get outside the ahem safe space ahem of high school football and be exposed to the Real World where people rise and fall on their own individual merits and are held truly accountable for their actions.
The whole paragraph is just dripping with ideology. If it wasn't so obviously reactionary, you'd almost think a :LIB: wrote it.
It's the idea that black people are individually inferior as opposed to the idea that they are as a group inferior.
Yard went to practice with his teammates: Scrimmage, End Zone, Tackle, and of course, Mr. Football.
"and looked like he was headed straight for a lifetime of prison workouts" HOLY SHIT BEN CHILL WHAT THE FUCK
Nobody knew his real name
This is a public school yes? I promise that somebody somewhere at that school knows what his real fucking name is. What is this
also HE IS ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM like they would have to know his name even if it is just to do the burocracy needed for him to play on a championship like COUCH FOR SURE KNOWS
He scrubbed his name from every record. Even his birth certificate now simply says 'Yard'
Nobody knew his real name
I've seen this trope in other stuff, and it always comes off as terrible and cringe, but I think it's always the writer trying to be quirky.
how does no one at a school know one of the kids real names it's literally read out every day.
Behind the Bastards did a reading of these book. It's pretty funny. It doesn't get better anytime throughout. Just when you think he's been the most racist he finds new and innovative racism.
So did Chapo way way back, I think Jose did a well. Jenny Nicholson reviewing Trigger Warning is probably the toppest tier
... why did I expect Ben Shapino to write with more restraint than that?
It gets worse...
The hard-r is dropped multiple times a few sentences later.
Yeah, Brett Hawthorne and Yard argue over whether or not Brett called Yard a "removed". Brett only just avoids being beat up by Yard when another, and the book takes pains to point out his skin colour, black guy turns up to sing "ebony and ivory".
True Allegiance? lol, is Ben writing himself into a horribly racist Master Blaster fantasy?
If you want to do even more violence to yourself, he has published some short stories
Absolute reject Twilight Zone material with that special political idiocy
Can't believe this guy couldn't make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. This stuff is so bad, I assumed CBS would turn it into a prime time sitcom in a heartbeat.
I do appreciate that the bot has specific categories of dumb shit Bing Shapeepoo says
Took some dedication to go through all that shit
