[Chojin]

The softest touches were always female. For many women, empathy and “emotional literacy” (whatever the hell that is) are a greater priority in the workplace than actually doing the job they’re paid to do. We had a whale of a time whenever a liberal white female was in charge.

Haha, women! Who let them teach anyway, am I right?

A stalwart gang of diehard traditionalists prevented us from leaving school illiterate. Chief among them was Mr Garrett, my form tutor. He was an imposing behemoth of a man, who couldn’t have cared less about our ethnicity and historical subjugation. He had high expectations of how we should behave and apply ourselves, and flew into thunderous, terrifying rages whenever we failed to meet them.

The lesson here is that flying into thunderous, terrifying rages trumps human understanding every time it matters. And evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.