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Students in Colorado have been practicing civil disobedience over a proposal by three Conservative school board members that seeks to rewrite history and minimize the teaching of civil disobedience:
"The school board proposal that triggered the walkouts calls for instructional materials that present positive aspects of the nation and its heritage. It would establish a committee to regularly review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history, to make sure materials “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights” and don’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.”
Good on the students. It seems it's the Conservatives here who need some lessons in history. This country was founded on civil disobedience and disregard for the law.
Yes it was and for good reasons, not at the drop of a hat.
Did they include any and all civil disobedience?
I did not see that in the article.
Good on the students. It seems it's the Conservatives here who need some lessons in history. This country was founded on civil disobedience and disregard for the law.
No, it was founded on the belief that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among that those rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That governments exist to DEFEND THOSE RIGHTS, and when they fail to do that, they are no longer legitimate, and the people have a right to remove those governments and replace them with ones that do.
That's a far cry from being hooligans who fight for lies.
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No, it was founded on the belief that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among that those rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That governments exist to DEFEND THOSE RIGHTS, and when they fail to do that, they are no longer legitimate, and the people have a right to remove those governments and replace them with ones that do.
That's a far cry from being hooligans who fight for lies.
So, you don't believe revolution IS civil disobedience?
No, it was founded on the belief that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among that those rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That governments exist to DEFEND THOSE RIGHTS, and when they fail to do that, they are no longer legitimate, and the people have a right to remove those governments and replace them with ones that do.
That's a far cry from being hooligans who fight for lies.
So you consider the American Revolutionaries who engaged in civil disorder hooligans?
So, you don't believe revolution IS civil disobedience?
No.
Removing a government that violates its power is not civil disobedience. It is exercising the right of a sovereign people.
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