Re: where did gerry get radicalized?
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Gerry's childhood
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Date: April 20, 2017 12:11AM
Gerry's parents came here from India - perfectly normal, more or less secular Hindu IIT grads here to work as engineers. After settling in the DC area, they begat one son, named Ravi. Ravi had the iconic American childhood, which his parents were very pleased to be able to provide for him.
Unfortunately, there were some issues.
First, there was the matter of Ravi's poor academic performance. In Indian American society, where it is normal for parents to boasts of their child completing grad school before being old enough to drink, Gerry could not complete high school algebra. His teachers often complained of Ravi falling asleep in class. This greatly dissapointed the Mandererhavan parents, who regarded American schools as particularly unchallenging. In order to assuage his parents, Ravi insisted that his failure to succeed in school was due to the racio-heirarchical structure of the American educational system. His parents did not for one minute buy this, but Ravi himself came to belive it religiously.
Then there was the girl. Reena Suharnonehassapeenapetalon. A ravishingly beautiful half Sikh - half Italian, with a charming witty personality and a brilliant mind to match. Ravi had nurtured a crush on her since the third grade, but the studious Reena gave no sign of interest in boys until she turned sixteen. When she did choose a beau, it was not the gawky, socially awkward Ravi. It was Biff KKKillary; stellar student, LAX champion, and with his good looks and great charisma, leader of the school drama society. Ravi could NOT accept that his rejection was based on merit. There HAD to be a fix. This white man had stolen away HIS Asiatic prize.
Eventually, when Ravi's parents enrolled him at the local community college, Ravi met many equally disenfranchised individuals, who explained to him that it was the whites - the Americans - the Christians - the Capitalists - and above all the heterosexuals, who feared his brilliance and eventual inheritance of the world, and were striving to keep him down.
From this point, Ravi/Gerry's descent into radicalism was assured...