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On "White Riot", The Clash complain that, unlike their admirable brick-throwing black contemporaries, "White people go to school/Where they teach you to be thick." This is a slight not just on the teaching profession in general, who are waging a daily war against the bonehead chic propounded through street culture by the likes of The Clash for whom intellectual aspirations equal ponciness. It's also an implied slur on the staff of Epsom - yes, Epsom Boarding School, where in spite of their best efforts it was evidently as much as they could do to teach the schoolboy Strummer to spell C-A-T, so addled was his mind with fantasy notions of rock rebellion.
ha!
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