For context, Bebop was a popular style of Jazz, that like so many other American styles of music emanated from black musicians. So being “degenerate”, “going to the bad part of town”, and listening to bebop would have been understood at the time as explicit racial coding.
That’s right, “black” music can turn white kids bad, even when it doesn’t have lyrics.
I like that he apparently has a poster that just says SEX above his bed.
Though this communist infiltrator is going about the wrong way, he should be making sure those kids are studying for that American History test. That’s the best way to turn them into communists
In reality, a Communist would be spreading copies of Wage Labor & Capital and holding theory reading sessions, as well as organizing pro-Palestinian protests.
Obviously untrustworthy person: “Hey, kids whom I’ve never met before. Wanna go do something obviously stupid and not in your own interest? Something transparently harmful to you with no stated benefit? For no other reason than because I said to do it?”
Kids: “Do we?! C’mon, let’s go already!”
Narrator: “The alien commie nazis were so clever and subtle that nobody could see through their devious ploy!”
I was once a teen. My favorite pastime was accepting terrible advice from practically strangers. When some rando I’d met mere hours before would suggest, “hey! Let’s go try this stupid, but fun-sounding, thing,” my answer was usually “yes!”
I think anyone who says they were otherwise has forgetten just how unbearably boring most of our teenage years were.
For millions of years, human teenagers were actually unable to decline any invitations from strangers. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Nancy Reagan made the most shocking discovery in the entire history of human psychology. Teenagers could, in fact, just say “no”.
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