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Posted by Scorpio7 on Sun Apr 24 06:29:32 2011, in response to Re: Another GOPer with hateful ideas, posted by Train Dude on Sat Apr 23 22:30:19 2011. "the state has the right to instill in children attitudes about religion, alternate lifestyles and multiculturalism that the parent may not agree with"I've never said the state has the right to 'instill' attitudes about rligion, lifestyles or muticulturalism in children. But there's a HUGE gap between the kind of brainwashing you're alluding to, which is one extreme, and the other extreme, which is what you're supporting, i.e. that the subjects shouldn't even be talked about. There's an enormous middle ground here, where the subjects CAN be talked about without any kind of brainwashing going on. It's such a typically right-wing idea to immediately assume some kind of government conspiracy to turn the children into little liberals. And now that attitude leads to draconian measures like this, where we now start installing new taboos in schools. You've said before that you don't like political correctness taken to the extreme. Well neither do I. What you don't seem to understand is that this measure IS that political correctness taken to the extreme. Compare it to the example you yourself gave: your granddaughter having to talk to the school psychologist because she gave another child a peck on the cheek. something as completely innocent as that having those consequences is a complete overreaction to the fear of sexual harassment at schools and is most certainly 'PC gone mad'. In the same way, banning ALL talk about sexuality except heterosexuality is a complete overreaction to the fear that schools would start indoctrinating the children or offending some parents. That too is 'PC gone mad'. Whatever happened to 'being reasonable' in making and applying rules? |
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