The stand-up comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White's original special, "If You Quit Listening, I'll Shut Up," was released on Netflix Tuesday. The Texas native’s signature routine is a cocktail of bawdy anecdotes, biting cynicism and a certain brand of brashness that can only be described as the kind of dirty, offensive humor your drunk uncle annually delivers at the Thanksgiving table.
By pretty much any reasonable definition, I am a successful product of the U.S. educational system. I may not have gotten into an Ivy League school, but I still did well. At a school like Boston University,...
