Now that I think about it, one of the main reasons that I have distaste for NPR and its programs and hosts is that they remind me of people who looked down on me sneeringly when I was a feral North Florida white trash* kid.

They were judging on appearances of course, and never even realized that I was intelligent.

It’s not something conscious, really, just an association of past events perpetrated by similar types of people.

*Though I realize the term is now frowned upon, I’m taking it back so to speak, since I was often and repeatedly called “white trash” disparagingly in school.