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[–]RamblingOtter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No.

I do however have extremely left-wing liberal parents in-law who do my nut in about this on the regular though. They're always on about one of their nieces who married a black man and has "beautiful coloured" children like it's a badge of honour and are immediately superior to mine and their daughter's children.

Only the other week, my son brought home the awesome news that his predicted grades for his exams are in the 8s and 9s (new version of what A and A* is). He has worked his arse off to do it too. Meanwhile the niece's children are not doing great in school and the eldest son is repeating his GCSE years in another school after failing them entirely. Yet they are always on about how unfair the system is, how it needs to be more diverse and how those poor kids are struggling against a system designed to privilege white males. So basically my son's achievements are just par for the course and meaningless on account of her daughter sadly marrying a white guy.

It's not what they say, but it's how they say what they do that drives me up the wall. I don't even like taking my kids there anymore as it's a brainwashing session on how bad they are for being white.

I take issue with it as my son spends hours at night revising and doing his damnest to get ahead in life. He has seen my examples, I sit with him too when he's trying to figure out how to do some maths thing and I'm straining my ol' grey matter trying to remember what the hell I did when I was at his level.

The reason the niece's kids are having a hard time is because there is no discipline. They can talk your arse off about gaming and girls, they have three PS5s in the house and the middle kid looks to be going the same way. Meanwhile my two hit the books every night.

I make decent money but I don't spend it on shit. I drive a ten year old car and will drive it until it dies. The niece's husband earns just over half of what I do yet they just leased another new Audi - likely to impress my parents in law. How they're doing it on his salary I have no idea.

Neither the niece, her husband or her kids are bad people, they're all lovely. But they are thoroughly unstructured. To me colour has nothing to do with it, the kids lack basic discipline or the value of getting themselves a damned education.

Yet my parents in law tend to try and mention it as much as possible, how beautiful those gorgeous coffee coloured kids are and what a terrible piece of work the white man is for keeping such geniuses down in life.

No, you can kiss my white guilt goodbye! I have zero.