Posted on 07/14/2011 12:59:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A kindergarten in Sweden has prohibited teachers to use words that would indicate a child’s gender. Since “he” and “she” can’t be used, children must be defined by the neutral gender. Completely making a mockery of both grammar and common sense, Sweden has taken political correctness to a new level of absurdity.
Almost from infancy, young Swedes begin to be educated in “tolerance toward homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.” Schools choose books based on this worldview. For example, Snow White and Thumbelina are banned because they are “full of traditional gender stereotypes.”
But other types of literature are available in abundance. For example, children are offered books about homosexual giraffes that hatch abandoned crocodile eggs so they can raise a shared newborn.
The word “it,” when applied to a human being with a gender, gives a person genderless characteristics. This politically correct vocabulary not only assumes that there is no difference between man and woman, but it also equates a person to a chair.
Sweden tries to maintain a semblance of fairness by claiming that parents have the right to remove their child from this particular kindergarten if they find the policies objective.
But this is deceiving. Even in prosperous Sweden, there are not enough kindergartens to meet demand. When faced with the decision to send their children to a “politically correct” kindergarten close to home or to go to one located on the other side of the city, parents have little other choice than to send their children to the politically correct institution.
What’s more, while overall government funding for education and culture is shrinking, funding continues to be allocated for projects that promote a neo-liberal ideology.
The zealous efforts of European and U.S. liberals to preach and inculcate political correctness at all costs has shifted from being something quirky — and, at times, even humorous — to becoming a dangerous political phenomenon, particularly when it uses totalitarian methods to achieve its goals.
Liberal ideology loves to claim that it promotes tolerance. Of course, we do need to be tolerant of people that are different in their morals and sexual behavior.
But this tolerance must be mutual and neutral. Defending the rights of a minority should not infringe on the interests and rights of the majority.
Protecting a minority becomes dangerous when that protection means that the majority loses its rights. When special rights are allocated to a minority and when government finances are allocated specifically and exclusively to promote such a group, then these aren’t rights but special privileges.
The most dangerous result of radical political correctness is when any objection to it evokes charges of racism, homophobia and intolerance. In this way, the very concept and definition of racism become diluted and devaluated.
As a result, this plays right into the hands of the true extremists, neo-Nazis and racists. This is how political correctness gets turns on its head and comes back to stab the neo-liberals right in the back.
Somehow I don’t think this sort of thing gets taught in the madrassas of Malmo.
DNA is not gender neutral. And stupid happens in both genders.
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
Ping for your gay giraffe interests.
“Never trapped a single one.”
Still, it's disturbing that the government allows this sort of child abuse to occur.
This makes sense for the lunatic Left because in their eyes the child was an “it” before they were born.
Such parents think the policies are far from "objective." They are pushing a pro-homo agenda.
I think the author meant "objectionable."
I thought somebody was talking about 0b0z0.
“...the government allows this...”
In Sweden, like in America, the people need to learn to create a backlash against this type of nonsense.
We the people of the United States, in order to kick some government ass, do hereby...
And the Swedes LOVE it.
And have great schools to show for it.
This is a great example of the perversity of liberalism. The people behind this are not simply “misguided people with good intentions” as some like to ascribe to them.
These are perverted and evil people who get off turning God’s laws upside-down and backwards and debauching the morals of children. They are child predators. If they tried to violate my child this way, I would definitely be in prison after I finished with them.
Thanks for sharing this.
http://www.tingsukantseeoutayourvolvo.sv
This does seem bizarre, extreme, and extremely bizarre, but I had thought it was just the one school that took it to this level. Swedish language is more likely to support this than other languages - it may be crazy, but it’s not as crazy as it sounds to an English speaker. Grammatical gender in older Swedish of quite long ago was like it is in German now: masculine, feminine, and neutral words not necessarily matching actual physical gender - but the Scandinavian languages put the first two in what’s now called common gender for ease of speaking and writing, with neutral gender words staying basically the same.
Various Chinese languages ignore gender ~ which makes them incomprehensible
I see red every time an actress is referred to as an actor, as if calling her an actress somehow diminishes what she is. An actress is exactly the same as an actor, accept that an actress is a female.
“And have great schools to show for it.”
After reading this article I find this statement of yours hard to believe. It seems more as if they have corrupt schools.
Wasn’t Sweden the first country to decriminalize homosexuality?
While at the same time or shortly thereafter Sweden decriminalized bestiality. After there were reports a few years back of large increases in cases of bestiality in Sweden according to veterinarians /doctors. Were the people involved in these cases corrupted by the new moral stances and laws of the country or were they born that way and just finally showing their lust for animals after years of being forced to hide it by oppressive laws?
The only time I liked this elimination of sex reference was in the new Battlestar Galactica. All superior officers are “sir” and there is no “ma’am” in the ranks. I like it because it fits with the ideal of “you’re a soldier, period.”
If Giraffes were homosexual they would have long ago become extinct.
This homo nonsense is destroying civilization and is an insult to intelligence!
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