No other community/race has the term “educated lame”

[ShaneTheRogue]

Some good points on both sides.

But ultimately, the whole "Black people clown other Black people for being educated" narrative is overblown.

Particularly, in my opinion, by the type of Blacks who view themselves as being "Black sheep" for being "educated"

Im not all that smart or educated but my family extended and all praised me all my life for being both. They introduce me to people like Im Black Einstein.

And I know Im not the only one with this experience. Its mostly ignorant nikkas and brothers who are secrectly envious of said ignorant nikkas who push this narrative.


If you check the histories of most the brehs cosigning this I bet most of them have posts about women choosing "thugs" over them.

 

[Robbie3000]

Y’all never seen Revenge of the Nerds?

Where do you think terms like nerd, dork or bookworm came from?

being a nerd overall just became acceptable and in some cases “cool” in the 2000s.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Dummies?

It wouldn't have to be mimicking whites, though.
The Black Wall Streets, Gold Coast,etc stories of thriving Black communities were based on entire economies controlled by Blacks. With the business leaders controlling and distributing resources to the rest of the community. Jobs,loans, services,goods.

Not about anybody being a dummy, but everybody playing their part in the economy.

Exactly my point.. But somehow we've become so ingrained in W.S that we try to emulate the way they operate. Thats why I used the word dummy because it comes from that "smart vs dumb" battle on the plantation.

 

[Wild self]

It's a bit of a reach, but educators have said for decades that this type of mentality factors into young Black men and generally poor academic performance/test scores.

That there exists a real life stigma in some of these environments to doing well in school.
These other communities don't have these problems to the extent that ours do.

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Been like that since the 80s, TBH. A lot of black boys caved under pressure and literally told teachers NOT to announce good grades, cause they will get jumped. A lot of intellectually gifted brehs turned to being a comedian, a hype beast of fashion, a (wannabe) thug, or a ladies man to prevent them getting the scarlet letter of the "nerd" or "lame"

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

There are general nerd terms yes and yes whites can be anti intellectual. Thats not what I’m referring to.

No term specifically for white + nerd, Chinese + nerd, Indian + nerd etc. notice the difference? Ever heard the terms “curry nerd” “ chink nerd” or “cracker nerd”?

Yeah, me neither

You fukks complain so much. If shyt is so bad, why don't y'all just off yourself. When did black folks become so weak? Is this a millenial/Gen Z-er thing? When I was coming up, I didn't go crying to strangers, I snapped back and made everyone laugh at whoever attempted to snap on me or did some devious shyt and fukked the dude's bytch.

Yall really never got over being made fun of in school

Man. I heard it all and gave as good as I got it. These guys are just failures at life. Nothing soothes hurt feelings like the knowledge that you'll be fukking his main after school. He got the whole class cackling at me, while I have the stone face, smiling on the inside knowing I'm going to be in the guts by 3:30.

 

[Another Man]

A lot of people want you to be responsible for their low self esteem
This is why people like groups. So they can act like crabs in barrel
Nothing more annoying than people who you don't need trying to control how you act around them because of how you make them feel

Truth.gov. OP is making a very valid, pragmatic point, and you already got this thread full of emotional ass struck nerves and Juelzing. Its true, only in the black community is shyt like being educated, from anywhere but the hood, not involved in street shyt/illegal activity and so on, so forth...is frowned upon. Black folks will go out of their way to hold the dumbest shyt against other black folks that doesnt even affect them, and it def comes from a place of low self esteem and insecurity. Its basically the black version of the term "uppity" Like how dare you step out of someone elses box.

 

[Wildhundreds]

You fukks complain so much. If shyt is so bad, why don't y'all just off yourself. When did black folks become so weak? Is this a millenial/Gen Z-er thing? When I was coming up, I didn't go crying to strangers, I snapped back and made everyone laugh at whoever attempted to snap on me or did some devious shyt and fukked the dude's bytch.


Man. I heard it all and gave as good as I got it. These guys are just failures at life. Nothing soothes hurt feelings like the knowledge that you'll be fukking his main after school. He got the whole class cackling at me, while I have the stone face, smiling on the inside knowing I'm going to be in the guts by 3:30.

You apart of the problem..

 

[8WON6]

Been like that since the 80s, TBH. A lot of black boys caved under pressure and literally told teachers NOT to announce good grades, cause they will get jumped.

this is a flat out motherfukking lie.

jesus fukking christ.

 

[Wildhundreds]

this is a flat out motherfukking lie.

jesus fukking christ.

You don't think kids want to do good in class? And if they don't they don't get mad? That's probably why they changed things up and give losers awards as well now days because some kids can't handle losing..

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

Teaching in the Japanese school system introduced me to kids being bullied so hard that suicide was a popular trend.

Teaching in private schools with predominately white populations showed me that white people absolutely TERRORIZE others in their race. Violently so.

Working with Blks, I’d say we are actually the least toxic towards nerds. At most you might get roasted about your hairline or weirdness. But blk kids didn’t have the level of viciousness I saw in other cultures. We need to stop thinking shyt is sweet in other communities, while hyper focusing on negativity in our own.

What you are trying to do is draw attention to elements of anti-intellectualism in our community and use that as away to present explanations for other areas of dysfunction in our community. But it’s disingenuous. Sure there are some people who aren’t critical thinkers and downplay the importance of education. But this dirge for the unsung nerd nonsense needs to stop.

Because the main nerds catching hell, aren’t those that are positive or just intellectually bright. We keep ignoring the glaring personality disorders in a lotta nerds that contribute to them being social pariahs, isolated, and alienated. AND most legit nerds I know are successful in multiple areas of life including romance. So we not even talking about real nerds. We talking about a$$hole weirdos using a social bait and switch saying they get abused because they smart.

Nooooooooooo u get roasted because you are weird, got a chip on your shoulder, have crippling social deficits and a strange sense of entitlement. Two very different populations.

 

[Sukairain]

Nobody likes intelligent people. It's not a racial thing, it's a human thing. That's Law 1 of the 48 Laws of Power: when somebody shines - whether it's in academics or in anything else - it creates bitterness, envy, and rage in all the billions of insecure people we have on this planet. So don't ever outshine your superior, someone who has the power to hurt you. But your inferiors, the average person on the street? fukk them, they can't hurt you. Do your thing and ignore whatever they might have to say.

If you excel at something it means you put in tonnes of hard work, of blood, sweat and tears. The vast majority of people are too weak to do that themselves. So when they see you do it, it threatens them, it shows them how weak they are. So of course they're going to try to bring you down to their level. They're going to try to find whatever stick they can lay hands on to beat you with. That's normal, that's life.

It doesn't hurt me one bit to have been attacked all my life for my intelligence. A king does not care what a peasant thinks of him. First reach my level, then you can speak to me. It's my world, you just live in it. Why should I let my day be spoiled when some illiterate troglodyte clowns me?

Witness it in this thread. Somebody said it's ok to be smart as long as you aren't pretentious. Translation: it's ok for you to be smart as long as you don't trigger my insecurity. People say this type of shyt about anybody who excels. How many times have you seen an elite athlete get criticised for not being "humble" or "classy"? Translation: you're so good at what you do that it makes me feel insecure, so I need to call you names to make myself feel better.

 

[8WON6]

You don't think kids want to do good in class? And if they don't they don't get mad? That's probably why they changed things up and give losers awards as well now days because some kids can't handle losing..

NOBODY BLACK WAS OUT HERE GETTING JUMPED FOR GETTING STRAIGHT A'S.

and from multiple posts in here YOUR problem is you keep calling people "dummies" and "losers" then you turn around talking about "people don't like me because i'm smart". This is where this bullshyt myth keeps coming from. nikkas with bad social presence, using "smart" as a reason the reason people didn't like them, when it was other shyt. This is like some chick being built like Lizzo but darkskin saying "nikkas don't like me cuz i'm darkskin" when it's clearly her weight.

 

[Karume]

Some good points on both sides.

But ultimately, the whole "Black people clown other Black people for being educated" narrative is overblown.

Particularly, in my opinion, by the type of Blacks who view themselves as being "Black sheep" for being "educated"

Im not all that smart or educated but my family extended and all praised me all my life for being both. They introduce me to people like Im Black Einstein.

And I know Im not the only one with this experience. Its mostly ignorant nikkas and brothers who are secrectly envious of said ignorant nikkas who push this narrative.


If you check the histories of most the brehs cosigning this I bet most of them have posts about women choosing "thugs" over them.

are you the exception or the norm?

 

[Wildhundreds]

Teaching in the Japanese school system introduced me to kids being bullied so hard that suicide was a popular trend.

Teaching in private schools with predominately white populations showed me that white people absolutely TERRORIZE others in their race. Violently so.

Working with Blks, I’d say we are actually the least toxic towards nerds. At most you might get roasted about your hairline or weirdness. But blk kids didn’t have the level of viciousness I saw in other cultures. We need to stop thinking shyt is sweet in other communities, while hyper focusing on negativity in our own.

What you are trying to do is draw attention to elements of anti-intellectualism in our community and use that as away to present explanations for other areas of dysfunction in our community. But it’s disingenuous. Sure there are some people who aren’t critical thinkers and downplay the importance of education. But this dirge for the unsung nerd nonsense needs to stop.

Because the main nerds catching hell, aren’t those that are positive or just intellectually bright. We keep ignoring the glaring personality disorders in a lotta nerds that contribute to them being social pariahs, isolated, and alienated. AND most legit nerds I know are successful in multiple areas of life including romance. So we not even talking about real nerds. We talking about a$$hole weirdos using a social bait and switch saying they get abused because they smart.

Nooooooooooo u get roasted because you are weird, got a chip on your shoulder, have crippling social deficits and a strange sense of entitlement. Two very different populations.

Again, this falls at the feet of the parents.. Some parents get too caught up in education that they isolate their kids from socialization with the other kids in the community.. Everything is about balance. There are kids who grew up not listening to rap music because their parents forbade it. Yet they'll send their kids to a predominantly black school where all the kids listen to rap.. So at lunch when the kids who listen to rap are sitting at the table talking about rap, the "nerd" who's parents didn't let their kid listen to it feels isolated.. Kids isolated from the peer group act a certain way as well.

 

[Wildhundreds]

NOBODY BLACK WAS OUT HERE GETTING JUMPED FOR GETTING STRAIGHT A'S.

and from multiple posts in here YOUR problem is you keep calling people "dummies" and "losers" then you turn around talking about "people don't like me because i'm smart". This is where this bullshyt myth keeps coming from. nikkas with bad social presence, using "smart" as a reason the reason people didn't like them, when it was other shyt. This is like some chick being built like Lizzo but darkskin saying "nikkas don't like me cuz i'm darkskin" when it's clearly her weight.

Im not that smart breh.. I just know if a parent dont do their part in teaching their own kids they're in for a rough ride..