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Education is today is the politics of tomorrow. People are placing stigmas on people who lived in 1776 as savages who were raised in an environment where our values don't match up with theirs. Doesn't make them bad people at all. Guaranteed if Thomas Jefferson and Washington grew up now, they would certainly believe that slavery was wrong. Put away with the concept of placing 21st century lenses on people who can't even relate to what would become the value system of today...
Why can't we acknowledge the accomplishment of our founding fathers by leaving a tyrannical government in Europe and setting up a civilization where tens of millions of people benefitted from their decisions by creating the Bill of Rights. Their capability of being able to say those things without governmental policing is why your here and choose to stay here.
One can argue over anything. I know, I'm good at arguing if I need to. Virtually anything can be picked apart. Living in a community requires as much restraint as it does advocacy. Somehow, these kids have learned that their arguments take precedence over social harmony.
To wit, these invitations were damaging no one. Yet, these kids chose to argue in a manner that makes their community a little less peaceful, a little less joyful, a little more fearful, and a little more serious. For no benefit to anyone. What utter morons. Though, I mostly blame the even larger morons that trained them to be this way.
The saddest thing is that the school got called out previously for having the n-word in the musical Ragtime.
HOLY crap, the n-word is used CONSTANTLY in music but in context it's suddenly bad.
Not to mention they put on a musical where there were tons of black roles which is something there was another big protest about in a thread a few months ago at another highschool.
Put on a racially significant musical like Ragtime that highlights historic racial oppression....get criticized as racsist.
Mention 1776? Racist.
Basically, no matter what you do or say...you're either being racist or.........racist by underserving black students or.......racist just because.
The SJW movement has jumped the shark. It's a bullying movement at this point and is especially underscored by the free passes they try to hand out when the offender is of the right gender\race etc.
Why? Should a few thin-skinned whiners who deliberately "misunderstood" what the ticket said, be listened to and allowed to change an obviously upbeat and humorous suggestion for celebration?
The whole thing is, like, oaf-ending my sensibilities.
Regular words don't cut it anymore.
When I'm surrounded by PCer, I sling a batch of syrupy condescensions at 'em. (Think yewww!)
Sticky, sticky sticky. Or is it, stickie?
Gives an opportunity to walk away from 'em.
Prolly why my daughter loved to collect stickers in the eighties.
She was a sticker!
Slap someone on the face with a unicorn, and hey, what are they gonna do about it?
Last edited by Hyperthetic; 05-21-2018 at 02:24 AM..
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