I think we had plenty of this in the other thread. We all know where we stand and this particular topic falls into the margin of disagreement between members.
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"There is no room for discrimination of any kind in our classrooms, our communities or our state," said Dean Vogel, president of the California Teachers Association.
That is, unless you are a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male. The way history is being taught today, WASP males did nothing but oppress minorities, women, gays, lesbians and transgendered people for all of recorded history. They made no contribution to history. Everything good in history was done by minorities, women, gays, lesbians and transgendered people.
Tell me: when do the White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males get to be treated with the same deference that minorities, women, gays, lesbians and transgenders are treated by the educational establishment?
...Tell me: when do the White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males get to be treated with the same deference that minorities, women, gays, lesbians and transgenders are treated by the educational establishment?
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"If we ever forget we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
A Man WITH a gun is a CITIZEN, a Man WITHOUT a gun is a SUBJECT
My thoughts on this are pretty simple. If the person did something of any significance in history he or she should be recognized for it. Their sexual preference shouldn't have anything to do with it.
So is there going to be a bill for non gay history to be taught in classrooms?
To divide history up into history that only represents certain social or ethnic groups is what is truly discriminatory. Because it nullifies the contribution of all others who have contributed to history, in favor only of those who fall into one of those aforementioned groups. The Tuskegee Airmen (I hope I spelled that right) for instance and the Navajo Code talkers should not be recognized simply as black pilots or native American radiomen, but because they were brave United States soldiers that fought with honor for their nation in World War 2. That's what they thought they were fighting for. For the right to be recognized as other men were recognized, not for their skin color or their sexual preference, but for their acheivments and for their courage.
To divide history up into history that only represents certain social or ethnic groups is what is truly discriminatory. Because it nullifies the contribution of all others who have contributed to history, in favor only of those who fall into one of those aforementioned groups. The Tuskegee Airmen (I hope I spelled that right) for instance and the Navajo Code talkers should not be recognized simply as black pilots or native American radiomen, but because they were brave United States soldiers that fought with honor for their nation in World War 2. That's what they thought they were fighting for. For the right to be recognized as other men were recognized, not for their skin color or their sexual preference, but for their acheivments and for their courage.
This should be nominated for the post of the day.. Thanks for sharing......
Honestly if this reaches beyond the state of California I will pull my son out of school and sign him up for the Virtual school that my sister attends.
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