Not first, but I remember watching early youtube of police arresting skaters, kneeling on their backs, and mocking the person filming by saying something along the lines of “yeah, your tax dollars pay my salary ha ha”

I was like 14 seeing all the news coverage about Trayvon Martin, dealing with all the cognitive dissonance about what I was being taught in school and just how fucking god awful the reaction to his death was, along with the fact that Zimmerman is still out there. I didn’t become a communist but that was definitely a seed.

The story of Job

what was a mean teacher you had

I went to a Catholic high school and my ethics teacher was the worst. She gave us this assignment, and I thought it was clear that Sinbad was clearly and unambigiously the worst person in the scenario because he coerced Abagail into sex, but then my teacher gave us some shit about how “He was just offering a service, it was voluntary™” and was even arguing that he was better than Ivan who just noped out of the situation and I was just like what the actual fuck are you talking about.

There was also the time when I missed class, couldn’t find her in her office the next day, and then showed up the day after without the handout she gave out on the day I missed, so she had me move my chair out to the hallway, then, with the door open so I could hear everything, proceeded to give the whole class a lecture on irresponsibility. It’s been like a decade and I have not stopped being pissed about that, lol.

That class was from a more secular-ish perspective and tbh I preferred the straight up theology classes taught by priests/deacons who actually had some level of chill.

The 4th grade teacher talking about how some people will never be more than cleaning staff, while eyeing my friend from Bosnia