CShine

I never knew that a strong emphasis on good manners is actually a liberal plot to brainwash my kids into becoming queer freaks. Good thing these folks were here to warn me!


http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4122133/detail.html

Coppertop

Yeah, teach children civility but not tolerance. Good thinking!

Charlatan

Damn it! No one is going to tell my kids they can't call someone a faggot...

/sarcasm off

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Lebell

I would love to see less popular use of these three insults:

Faggot
Nigger
Fatty

Unfortunately, there are strong influences in todays culture (especially with young people) that says they are "ok".

Hip Hop is bringing back 'nigger' strongly, with no regard or care how it has affected blacks over the years.

"Faggot" and permutations of it are popular with young kids, with "Gay" as in "That's so GAY" being particularly popular.

And of course, it is always exceptable to insult people by telling them they are "FAT", as if they hadn't noticed. "Wow, did you see the FAT ASS on that chick? What a tub of lard!"

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Mojo_PeiPei

Damn CS, I sense much resentment towards conservative America on your part, this is what like your 4th-5th post in a day going after various groups....

At Anyrate I think Robert Knight has a point, and I'm getting pretty sick of the one way diversity train. Also as far as tolerance goes, I think people here have a pretty big misconception as to what it is, and to again reiterate, many of said people seem to be pretty intolerant to conservative America.

Like Mr. Garrison once said
This was from the Lemmywinks episode, I think it's brilliant really. Mr. Garrison was trying to get fired for being gay, but everyone was tolerant of his over the top homosexual behavior, such as sticking a Gerbil up Mr. Slave's ass in the middle of class. Long story short, Mr. Garrison snaps in the above the quote and ends up getting sent to tolerance camp for being intolerant to homosexuals.

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zen_tom

Yeah, but all that is made up nonsense - it's not real.
How old are the kids in this book? So one of them is gay right? Is that the problem? Now how many children of an age that even understands what straight or gay means watch south-park? How many conservative parents allow their children to watch people being brutally dismembered in hollywood blockbuster action movies?
And they get upset because there is a single gay-kid in a book about not being unpleasant to gay kids? Is it just me or is there a slight over-reaction here?

[edit: venting too much to notice that the poster is actually making the same point as I am....phew]

Coppertop

Kinda makes you wonder what exactly homophobes are afraid of.

OFKU0

Hmmm,....National Name-Calling Week eh. And for the other 51 weeks of the year?

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Mojo_PeiPei

I find it interesting how people here will defend people such as the KKK or defend actions of Al Qaeda and insurgents, yet they get down on homophobes and conservatives (mainly Christian ones at that). Are they not entitled to speak their minds? Or is tolerance only afforded when it fits the leftist idealogy?

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yellowchef

theyre just mad because it mentions homosexuality and its being sponsored by those evil homosexuals. Whatever, Im just glad some schools are honestly supporting "no-name calling week" I dont care who came up with the idea, its great.

The book Im not so sure about.

The_wall

While I do think there was an overreaction to no name calling week, no name calling week is a pretty stupid idea if you ask me. Kids are already tought to be tolerant in schools, but even after hearing it they still insult kids and call them names. This no name calling week will change nothing.

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Coppertop

Who here stated homophobes and coservatives are not entitled to speak their minds or fight for what they belive in? I'm sure you'll be good enough to supply a source for such foolishness.

Mojo_PeiPei

You definitly insinuate it in snide comments such as the ones you made above. There are definitly homophobes out there, and they are ridiculous people. But as it seems to be going people who merely disagree with homosexuality get the label of "homophobe". I don't agree with homosexuality, it doesn't make me a homophobe.

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kutulu

Great idea, poor implementation. Making one week of no-name calling won't do anything in the long run. Instead they could crack down on the name calling and bullying every week.

I'm sick of the religious right accusing everyone else of having an agenda. Of course they'd NEVER admit that they are the ones trying to promote an agenda.

kutulu

Mojo_PeiPei:

Punishing kids for calling other kids "faggot" or "fudgepacker" is not forcing people to agree with homosexuality. I guess it would be better to leave it alone and wait for Columbine to happen all over again.

Coppertop

Again, please provide sources where I (hell, anyone) says you are not entitled to your opinion or to act on such opinions. Find them and I'll condemn them.

And no one accused you of being a homophobe. At least not in this thread. But maybe you'll now comment on how I insinuated it even though I didn't mention you at all. The fact that you took offense at my comment what was not even directed at you says a lot. Think about that.

Mojo_PeiPei

So you agree then that this is all this week amounts too? And I agree kids doing such actions should be punished, but no more so then any other insult. Next thing you know we'll end up like Canada and everything said that is unfavourable to homosexuality will be considered a hate crime.

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Mojo_PeiPei

Maybe we should just say that I took what you said out of context then, and leave it at that?

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Lebell

Ah, shades of Deja Vu!

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National Brotherhood Week
--Tom Lehrer

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne** and Sheriff Clark*** are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand,
You can tolerate him if you try!

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-Hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear;
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

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Coppertop

Fair enough.

flstf

It would seem that the CWACFI or whatever the group is called over reacted to this but the whole thing seems rather silly. Kids of middle school age will probably not react the way the GLSEN is intending them to. I imagine most kids will think the idea is stupid and there will be more name calling during that week than all the others.

OFKU0

Well I for one am not in favour of 'hate crimes' as a source to make crimes more significant for some and not others. I feel every crime should be treated equally.

But since it is in place, there's really nothing we can do about it. Is calling someone a fucking nigger, a fucking faggot, a fucking Jew, a fucking Pole, a fucking Jap,a fucking protestant, a fucking catholic a hate crime? I call it ignorance.

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The_wall

Agreed, kids love doing what they aren't supposed to. Kutulu is right, they should try cracking down on the insults ALL THE TIME. This will just increase the name calling for the week.

The problem is schools don't really punish people for name calling. Maybe they suspend a kid, but lots of kids love having an excuse to not go to school. Longer in school suspensions might be better, but they have to be longer punishments which kids would dread getting.

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Lebell

Maybe we should stop calling each other "liberal" and "conservative".

I'm sure that we don't mean good things when we say them

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kutulu

No, that's not what it amounts to but the assholes flapping their lips about it sure are trying their best to spin it that way. It's about all name calling, not just the word faggot.

Mojo_PeiPei

Exactly. When the point is equality why should any one group be afforded more protection under the law? Besides I think it's safe to assume that most crimes are motivated by hate.

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kutulu

Please tell me where the orginators of this idea intended it to treat 'gay bashing' insults different then calling an overwieght girl 'lard-ass' I'd really like to know.

Just because it's based on a book by a gay author doesn't mean it was meant to treat gays differently. Of course the homophoboes against it see only that insults about sexual orientation are included in a LIST of insults and therefore, it must be about getting our young boys to think that cocks taste nice.

Mojo_PeiPei

What are you blathering about? I was responding to a post that quoted something I had said about hate crime legislation, not merely No name calling week.

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kutulu

You (and the conservatives bitching about this) are the ones acting like it is set up so that we will be more accepting of gays. That's what your original hate crime reference was about. Are you retracting that?

Mojo_PeiPei

No I am not retracting, because it's true, it probably isn't held solely for the acceptance of gays, but none the less that is definitly a motivation for this.

And my original hate crime reference was in regards to how Canada is stiffling speech that is considered unfavourable to gays and making it hate speech. I don't know what is afforded for protection of speech there, but as far as I'm concerned it's a spit in the face of free speech.

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Lebell

irony: mojo and kutulu calling each other names

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JumpinJesus

I've never seen so many people get so pissed off over whether we should be nice to each other and teach our kids to be nice to each other.

Zoiks.

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kutulu

lol

You never cease to amaze me. If it does anything positive for gays it must be a plot by the gays trying to infiltrate the society. Be carefull, you might catch 'teh ghey'.

Say this actually raised some awareness (not likely) and kids get taunted less as a result. If in addtion to school being easier on the psyche for tons of kids, a few gay kids felt a little less bad about themselves is it a bad thing? According to what I gather from you're posts, it sure seems that way.

Mojo_PeiPei

You know you are right. God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, all those fudge packing pillow biting faggots suck at life and deserve death.

If it does something positive for gays great, I don't think the point of the week is to merely emphasize the taunting of homosexuals. But you are just being nieve in asserting that it isn't one of the goals, the program was developed by a homosexual advocacy group, you are being willfully ignorant if you don't think they aren't trying to put some attention on it. For the record I am not asserting that they have some deviant homosexual agenda.

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roachboy

well well, mojo: once again you manage to make me feel like i am standing behind some huge exhaust pipe when i read one of your posts....i feel that i am now covered in some kind of foul grime....

funny that you refer to god in your signature.
and that you presume to not just judge but apparently hate others based on who they choose to love.


go figure.

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alansmithee

The problem is that the only "awareness" that is trying to be raised is about the gloriousness of gays. It seems that most liberals want all sex to be seen as normal and no big deal (if you have modesty you're obviously some repressed prude) except for gay sex which is the most wonderful thing ever since sliced bread. If a student thinks that the act of two men having sex with each other is morally wrong, there is nothing wrong with that. That person is not any less than anyone else, they are not a bigot or homophobe. Now, should they necessarily go around beating up gays? No. Just like poeple who have other qualities that might be deemed negative shouldn't be harassed. But there is no reason that certain insults should be singled out.

And personally, I think that is what this is about. It isn't about not calling people fatty or nigger or spic or retard, it's all about calling people faggots. Honestly, if anyone is called out their name it should be equally punished. What shouldn't be forced down on people is a liberal moral code where acceptance of everything (except Christianity) is the norm.

filtherton

I guess i missed the part where the article said that only homophobic slurs were being discouraged. I see your post, and then i see the article, and i see that they share very few common ideas. Did you read the article, or did you just immediately overwrite it in your mind with some sort of antihomophobe rant?

I saw nothing about the "gloriousness of gays". I hope that you are able to see the difference between disdain for homosexuality and overt vocal hostility towards homosexuality/homosexuals. One is okay, if not just a tad bit sad, and the other is completely unacceptable.

kutulu

Whatever, if the same idea was brought up by someone else but everything was written the exact same way they'd say nothing. It shows the true colors of the 'religous right': "Fags are bad and we need to oppose anything that might lead people to believe otherwise. In fact, we need to make sure that everyone knows they are sub-human."

If these people spent half as much time actually reading the word of their "God" as they did talking about their "God" they'd probably be a bit more tolerant about others.

"Judge not" my ass. They have no idea what it means to be tolerant.

kutulu

No, it's there all right. You just need you're Dubya Decoder Ring. Then you will see the light, my Christian Warrior.

Christians have no idea what gays are asking for. All they want is to be treated like human beings. I guess that is too much to ask.

Lebell

Please do not lump us all together.

Thanks.

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