Comments by "Widdekuu91" (@Widdekuu91) on "Big Think" channel.

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  3. I had a black teacher and since I was in a school with difficult-kids (I had ADHD) I shared the class with several white supremacists and (I'd call them) concept-nazi's. The black teacher did not treat any of us, ány less and he ignored any swastika's that people started drawing on the walls. He didn't want to know who they came from or who had drawn them, he just taught everyone, equally. He taught us about history and geography. One day, I (12) sat behind a cabinet and there was a swastika on it. So far in history-class, I'd learned that swastika's were for WW2, I didn't understand that they were still relevant today. Also, I was drawing a lot. I finished my work, so I started drawing swastika's in the corner. I drew some diagonal lines and made them into windmills. It's a perfect way to get the windmills balanced out, but I kept drawing the swastika's the wrong way, with the hooks facing backwards or two-back and two-forwards. After half an hour of practicing, I had a page full of swastika's, windmills and wrongly-drawn-swastika's. When the teacher came to get my homework, he looked at the page for a second, leaned towards the cabinet and said; 'Ah...a swastika.' I said; 'Oh I didn't do that one! That was already on there...I just copied it on the page..' He said; 'Do you mind making them into windmills for me, the ones that you finished?' I said; 'Can I keep óne? I finally managed to do it correctly..' He said; 'Sure, but I'll give you a separate paper for that, once you've finished drawing the extra ones into windmills.' Once I finished, he asked me if I could promise that, unless it was for personal use (whatever the reason could be) I would only draw swastika's as a base for windmills, and not 'leave them like that' somewhere. I said I would. And then he graded my homework, I practiced some more swastika's at home and later in the lessons (much later) he brought up the current use of swastika's, but objectively, he did not refer to me or the drawing or anything. Just saying, that's professionalism right there.
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