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It's time to blow the whistle on the 'language police'
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^
| 5/6/03
| Jane Eisner
Posted on 05/06/2003 2:18:33 PM PDT by Caleb1411
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:18:33 PM PDT
by
Caleb1411
To: MadIvan
BTTT
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:21:46 PM PDT
by
Caleb1411
To: Caleb1411
``There's something rotten in the state of Denmark this''
To: Caleb1411
This is
infuriating!
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:30:27 PM PDT
by
rightwingreligiousfanatic
(Caution: Wet Floor (tagline being sanitized for your protection))
To: Caleb1411
This makes me so, so sad. It is ludicrous to expect students to write and not use certain words.
The bias reviewers objected to the fact that the name of the school included the word Negro.
My gosh, so does the United Negro College Fund. Is that something we're not allowed to talk about in front of the kids?
If we don't use the word Negro, does that mean that Negros don't exist?
It is a crazy world we are living in!
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:32:29 PM PDT
by
It's me
To: Caleb1411
"Ignrance is strengyh
War is peace
Freedom is slavery"
To: It's me
You just found out??
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
1984 is only 20 years late, it seems.
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:37:06 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: nickcarraway
``There's something rotten in the state of Denmark this''I resent the value judgement you seem to place upon the word "rotten." Who are you to decree that "rotten" should be thought of as negative?
ROTTEN CITIZENS OF THE EARTH, REVEL IN YOUR ROTTENNESS!
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:37:46 PM PDT
by
ibbryn
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To: Caleb1411
...It is behind a surge in censorship of texts and tests in schools across the country, pushed by vociferous interest groups somehow afraid that their darling children will be ruined if they see a stereotypical image or read the wrong word. That may be, but I think it is something far simpler. This whole "movement" got its start by people who were not only free to file suit for being offended by language but were rewarded for their efforts.
Take that out of the equation and you will have a large incentive for the oversensitive among us to simply sit down and have a nice bug cup of STFU.
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:39:33 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(1/3 Fewer calories than our regular tagline.)
To: Sam Cree
Hi Sam. Yes, indeed. This is no laughing matter at all, but a deadly serious attempt by the lefist elitists to destroy our culture, history and civilization.
I heard this lady interiewed on the Dennis Prager show yesterday. It is so absurdly ridiculous that you have to laugh to keep from crying....
She had some of the most unbelievable examples of thought policing..... I'd get the book, but I'm afraid I would become too depressed from reading it.....
To: It's me
If we don't use the word Negro, does that mean that Negros don't exist? That reminds me of a question that Abraham Lincoln once asked..."How many legs a dog has, if you call the tail a leg?"
The answer, obvious to conservatives but never understood by liberals, is..."Four. Calling the tail a leg does not make it a leg."
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posted on
05/06/2003 2:49:21 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(1/3 Fewer calories than our regular tagline.)
School books that ban the word "God"? This is the Socialist Inquisition of book burners. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that somebody was trying to prepare this current generation of school children for a new world; one where there is no absolute Truth, and one where we will all believe in the same nothingness. And when somebody dares to think for themselves that group of social outcasts will have to be ostracized. But, nah, that couldn't happen in America.
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
" I'd get the book, but I'm afraid I would become too depressed from reading it....."
Never mind that, imagine how depressed we'd all be living it?
To: Caleb1411
bump
To: Caleb1411
"...and dinosaurs bother creationists."Bullsh*t. No, they don't.
Let them keep the paint on the proper wing of this crumbling building: the left and its ubiquitous political correctness, NOT the Christian right.
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:15:10 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: RightOnline
"...and dinosaurs bother creationists."
Bullsh*t. No, they don't.
Yes, they do. Throws a wrench into that whole "world only being 5-6000 years old" idea. This is what they are referring to.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:27:18 PM PDT
by
Desecrated
(A nickel of every tax dollar should go toward the defense of America)
To: RightOnline
Exactly. They had to suggest pressure was coming from the right and left. "like we're just stuck here in the middle." BS. They're careening dangerously left, and we have to stop them.
Conservatives Take Back Education!
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:31:33 PM PDT
by
jd777
To: Caleb1411
It's crazy; she's right.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:33:58 PM PDT
by
RAT Patrol
(Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
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