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well, looks like you have me all figured out and gave me two whole entire options. Gee thanks
I can't watch the video either, but I can't see a 10-year old coming up with this on his own. Maybe I was too quick to judge the parents and it could be the school system or another relative, but someone has been feeding this kid some crap. When I was 10, many moons ago, I barely even noticed girls, better yet pondered gay rights. Someone needs to let this kid be a kid and save the BS for later in life.
and Maury is a retarded TV show that always has out of control kids on it. South Park did a great job of making fun of it.
This is what's so wrong in our country today - lack of patriotism and respect for the United States. No, we are far from a perfect country but where else can you find the level of freedom that US citizens take for granted?
Reciting the Pledge doesn't indicate any level of patriotism, in my opinion. As someone else said, kids are just parroting what they're heard - as are most adults. Patriotism and respect are feelings that can't be forced; either you feel those things or you don't. Reciting a few lines that someone else wrote doesn't do anything to change your level of patriotism.
Don't worry, my dad is very much like our friend here, only maybe more so, and I turned out to be a liberal atheist. Not all children grow up to be exact replicas of their parents.
Same here. True "thinking people" will make their own decisions and come to their own conclusions as adults, no matter how militant their parents may be.
Is that all you neocons have to say, "If you don't like Amerikaa, you can get ouuuttttt.....", every time someone hits you with hard facts. I love this country like many other people, but we are far from perfect and a lot of those countries listed probably have more freedom and equality than the US. It's not freedom, when you deny a certain groups rights, while other countries that may have younger democracies allow it. This young boy is right to bring to attention. I wish more people in this country were as smart and brave as this child.
I find it ironic that neocons like yourself think that this boy is disrespecting the founding principles of the countries, but wasn't this country founded on dissent and free speech? Weren't the founding fathers rebelling against the British government? If we had your attitude, back then, we probably would have still been part of Great Britain.
I just can't understand it. My brother, three yrs younger than me, grew up to be the worst neocon, and has raised a young 17-yr-old neocon. And yet, by age 10, I knew with my redneck family I was in trouble, and have grown up to be a leftist. He and I can't stand one another, though I'd never think of discussing politics with him. We are civil with one another, but that is all surface. When my mother passes, he and I will have little contact at all.
How does this happen? It's not as minor as us being of two different parties! It's that he is a racist and bigot and against human and civil rights, and feels the sort of ultra-right, 1950s status quo my father supported is the way things are supposed to be. He believes people should be in poor houses, and that women should have fewer rights than men.
So I often wonder if others have same experience I do with my brother.
More than you know. Although my brother is not a racist and bigot, I have not seen him in more than 25 years. I love him and have reached out to him, but he is uninterested to the point he didn't care when my mother died. I miss him.
I am originally from southeast Texas, and sometimes I cannot believe that's where I came from. Although my parents were not racist in the least, now that my mom has passed on, as soon as I sell the house I inherited down there I proabably will never go back there...although the pervading attitude is not as bad as your brother's, it is understood in every little thing people say and the way the act -- not all of them, but the majority. They can't see they have changed since we were teenagers, but having been away from there so long, I can.
How many 10 year olds know they are gay ? He's all of 10 and "he's grown up with them" ?
Sounds like parental brainwashing to me.
You are sadly misinformed. Although many people don't really realize they are gay until after puberty, many more know they are different or gay from the time they are little children -- they just don't always have a word for it.
ALL people who are citizens of this country should be treated equally. You don't have to condone their lifestyle anymore than others have to condone yours, but as Americans we should remember that the country was built on, among other things, the premise that all men[women] are created equal...
this kid is Un-American he didnt hold his hand on his heart, he didnt say it at all. dont vote for this kid lol.....this sounds all too familiar months ago
but as Americans we should remember that the country was built on, among other things, the premise that all men[women] are created equal...
it may have been built on all that but it wasnt exercised that way
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