Going down memory lane tonight, just thought I'd share this with you Pedes. I'd say throughout my youth I was fairly apolitical.

I was attending a typical lefty college and made the mistake of taking one of those ethnic study type classes. This was almost 20 years ago.

So I was sitting in a small discussion group lead by a TA. And he was talking about the inner cities, crime, and how crime was justified due to "systemic racism". Now, this was the first time in my life I heard someone say crime is justified.

I had never spoken up in that class until that point, but for some reason that comment just really sat the wrong way with me. So I said "dude, come on. That's crazy. Crime is a choice. Nobody commits crimes because they have no other choice."

Now, this was how naive I was back then. I expected most people in the class to agree with me. Nope. I heard a collective gasp. Some girl speaks up and says "You can't say that. There are people that have to commit crime so they can eat."

So I say "Nobody is starving in America. There's always a choice other than crime."

So she asks me what choice they have.

And I said "I don't know. Go play basketball and try to make the NBA?"

Louder collective gasp, and girl saying "That's racist!"

Granted it was fairly stereotypical. But the point I was trying to make is that it's more racist to "expect" people to commit crimes because they have no other choice. By allowing such thinking within a group of people, you lower expectations and just perpetuate a cycle of crime, poverty, and racism.

It was funny because after class a guy came up to me and says "Man I totally agree with you but I wouldn't have the balls to say it."

I just recently remembered this story because as crazy/stupid the left was back then, it's gotten so much worse. Imagine if I said the same shit in a college class today. They'd kick me out of school.