Righteous abuse of power there, dude

Five stars for sheer audacity.

As an English teacher in Asia myself, I am well familiar with this kind of asinine jackass who, living in a country he neither understands nor wishes to, masks his own stunted emotional development by sneering at the locals and treating them like animals performing for his own amusement. I salute you, sir! I SALUTE YOU!!

This kind of thing seems way, way more common than any sane person would expect it to be.

A friend of mine taught English in China for a year. When she got back home with a crate full of black market Nikes, I thought she was the coolest ESL teacher in the world, and nothing could top her. Oh, how little I knew.

Honestly, while I can see why folks are getting their panties wrapped in a bunch, I have nothing but love for this. The fact that he got them all to shoot the devil horns is alone enough to restore my faith in humanity.

Anyone gravely upset by this has completely forgotten what foul things children pick up all on their own.

Teaching communist children to worship Satan. Surely the zenith of everything you leftwing nutbags are hoping for.

i think my post-college job might be a bit more enjoyable than i was expecting!

As someone who works with ESL students for several hours a week . . . I have so much love.

Kids are awesome. And teaching ESL overseas in Asia really only requires a college degree.

I've done this. It is really just so much more satisfying when you're the one to get them to say it.

And another thing for the naysayers, straight from the horse's mouth:

"My friend Eric is teaching English and American culture in China. Last Halloween he told his students about the holiday, and taught them the "traditional greeting and hand signal" Americans use to welcome the "king" of Halloween."

You see? The teacher isn't abusing his power, he's just being brutally honest and refusing to water down the realities of American society with PC evasions and liberal doublethink. We all know Satan is the king of Halloween, and let's be reasonable about this, that IS the traditional greeting for our Dark Father.

I expect a written apology from each and every one of you who one starred this video.

Jesus. I just tell my students that my birthday is a national holiday in America. I'm a rank amateur.

goddamn right, kids.

As someone who is hoping to get into the JET Program and really hates this type of jackass yet is pretty impressed with the audacity, I'm divided.

But POE Hive Mind tells me to give five. So it goes.

5 stars for the delicious tears of offended Christians in the comments.

actually, this is EFL, not ESL.

This is exactly why you're not supposed to tell people they're losing their jobs in advance.

I read on allmusic that the horns is something Ronnie James Dio's grandmother used to ward off the "evil eye."

I wish I could teach my engineering students to do this, but most of them already speak English. Alas.

The next time those kids meet an american, hilarity will most assuredly ensue.

Fucking AWESOME.

Actually, I had a class this afternoon but unfortunately they were upper intermediate (i.e. I couldn't trick them into it) and I was being observed. But one day, one day....

I learned that in the first grade..

If he teaches them to say "Me Love You Long Time" for Valentine's Day, he's got my vote for President in 2012.