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greytone · 01-31-2005, 07:27 PM

This survey really frightens me. It appears that the NEA is doing a good job of indoctrinating their students without teaching them about what this country is all about. I think that both the right and left is responsible for this. The left has taken political correctness to ridiculous extremes. College campuses are not places where conservative thought is allowed in some cases. The right thinks that banning flag burning somehow is a good thing without understanding that the ban itself is more harmful to the flag and what it represents. The religous right is busy trying to protect us from thoughts that could endanger our souls (or maybe they just don't trust themselves and need to limit their rights in order to not be tempted).

We have become very polarized and we are increasingly more intolerant of those who disagree with us. We tend to marginalize those who oppose us and anyone who disagrees is "extreme." With this mindset it is easier to think that limiting the speech of extremists is acceptable, since what they have to say is not valid anyway.

When is the moon colony going to start accepting applications?

01-31-2005, 07:27 PM	#21 (permalink)
greytone Junkie	This survey really frightens me. It appears that the NEA is doing a good job of indoctrinating their students without teaching them about what this country is all about. I think that both the right and left is responsible for this. The left has taken political correctness to ridiculous extremes. College campuses are not places where conservative thought is allowed in some cases. The right thinks that banning flag burning somehow is a good thing without understanding that the ban itself is more harmful to the flag and what it represents. The religous right is busy trying to protect us from thoughts that could endanger our souls (or maybe they just don't trust themselves and need to limit their rights in order to not be tempted). We have become very polarized and we are increasingly more intolerant of those who disagree with us. We tend to marginalize those who oppose us and anyone who disagrees is "extreme." With this mindset it is easier to think that limiting the speech of extremists is acceptable, since what they have to say is not valid anyway. When is the moon colony going to start accepting applications? __________________ I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"