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101 Tools for Tolerance (Gag Alert)
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Posted on 09/15/2001 7:28:32 AM PDT by farmer18th
21. Invite someone of a different background to join your family for a meal or holiday.
22. Give a multicultural doll, toy or game as a gift.
23. Assess the cultural diversity reflected in your home's artwork, music and literature. Add something new.
24. Don't buy playthings that promote or glorify violence.
25. Establish a high "comfort level" for open dialogue about social issues. Let children know that no subject is taboo.
26. Bookmark equity and diversity websites on your home computer.
27. Point out stereotypes and cultural misinformation depicted in movies, TV shows, computer games and other media.
28. Take the family to an ethnic restaurant. Learn about more than just the food.
29. Involve all members of the family in selecting organizations to support with charitable gifts.
30. Gather information about local volunteer opportunities and let your children select projects for family participation.
31. Play "action hero" with your children. Are the heroes all aggressive males? Help your children see the heroic qualities in those whose contributions often go unrecognized (e.g., nurses, bridge builders, volunteers in homeless shelters).
32. Affirm your children's curiosity about race and ethnicity. Point out that people come in many shades.
33. Help young children make an illustrated list of what friends do or what friendship means.
34. Read books with multicultural and tolerance themes to your children.
35. Watch what you say in front of children when you're angry. Curb your road rage.
36. Watch how you handle emotional issues with girls and boys. Do you attempt to distract crying boys but reassure crying girls?
37. Examine the "diversity profile" for your children's friends. Expand the circle by helping your children develop new relationships.
38. Enroll your children in schools, daycare centers, after-school programs and camps that reflect and celebrate differences.
39. Participate in a Big Brother or Big Sister program.
40. Live in an integrated and economically diverse neighborhood.
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America On Line pointed me this morning to these wonderful tolerance tips in the wake of the tragedy. No wonder we're in the mess we're in. I wonder if inviting "Osama Bin Laden" to a cultural diversity dinner is on their list.
To: farmer18th
You must come to understand, farmer - libs are so open-minded that their brains are falling out.
To: farmer18th
41. Pick a color we can all paint ourselves so we can look the same.....BLAH,BLAH,BLAH!
OOps there goes my breakfast!
To: farmer18th
Thanks for the barf alert.
This should really be titled: How to turn Childern into Pansy Socialists
To: anniegetyourgun
To: anniegetyourgun
How did you like the one about the action hero game? I've got six kids and I'm trying to figure out how I make one the nurse, one the bridge builder, and the homeless shelter worker, and still get the "action hereo" part in. My oldest son has already said he doesn't want to play the homeless shelter person. I'm in a fix here.
To: farmer18th
One of our greatest enemies is the idea that tolerance is more important than truth.
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posted on
09/15/2001 7:37:02 AM PDT
by
Rockitz
To: Orual
28. Take the family to an ethnic restaurant. Learn about more than just the food.DUH! Drinks are important too.
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posted on
09/15/2001 7:38:07 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: farmer18th
This list is slightly nauseating. However, I've been taking some pleasure over the last few days in going out of my way to patronize various local Arab-owned businesses in my neighborhood that I visit. These businessmen are good neighbors and good Americans, and I know these times will be tough for them.
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posted on
09/15/2001 7:41:00 AM PDT
by
ignatz_q
To: Cyber Liberty
Another fan of the High Energy Weapons Archive I see!
To: farmer18th
too bad these happy smileyfaced characters weren't atop the world trade center tuesday morning. i'm sure the murderers, upon seeing them, sould have returned control of the planes to the pilots.
dep
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posted on
09/15/2001 7:42:31 AM PDT
by
dep
To: dighton
28. Take the family to an ethnic restaurant. Learn about more than just the food. Take a look in the kitchen. Nice Kitty!
To: farmer18th
Re #24: I guess this means we won't be buying our daughter that grenade launcher for Christmas...she'll be so disappointed!
I tell you what, these people are so tolerant, let's send them to live with Bin Laden and they will see how wonderful their lives will be.
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posted on
09/15/2001 7:45:04 AM PDT
by
Okies love Dubya 2
(God bless Dubya, NYC, DC, PA, and the USA)
To: farmer18th
I suspect it is the people who obsess about such things, who feel compelled to write elaborate lists and detailed instructions telling the rest of us how to be tolerant, who have the greatest personal struggles with tolerence.
The rest of us "bigots" just get on with life and live remarkably tolerent day-to-day, person-to-person lives. That annoys the tolerence twits, who cannot understand why, for example, "homophobes" don't want to know the particulars of every person's private sex life. They reason, "Unless you know of a person's private sexual perversions, how can you ever claim to tolerate him or her?"
They just don't get it.
To: dighton
23. Assess the cultural diversity reflected in your home's artwork, music and literature. Add something new. Assessment completed. Artwork and literature from the Middle East, the Far East, Africa and Europe (favoring Italy). Eclectic collection of music from diverse sources. Now what? I remain steadfastly intolerant against those responsible for this horrible tragedy.
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posted on
09/15/2001 7:59:26 AM PDT
by
Orual
To: Kevin Curry
40. Live in an integrated and economically diverse neighborhood.
"We like the home, but, frankly, there aren't enough really dirt poor people here. There aren't enough really stinking rich people either. We are trying to live in an econonomically diverse situation; it's on our list."
To: farmer18th
21. Invite someone of a different background to join your family for a meal or holiday. I invited Lucy Lu to dinner, but my wife nixed that idea.
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posted on
09/15/2001 8:15:05 AM PDT
by
LJLucido
To: Orual
23. Assess the cultural diversity reflected in your home's artwork, music and literature. Add something new. I didn't have the space to add anything, so I freed up some by demolishing some 1500 year old Buddahs, OK?
To: Kevin Curry
You beat me to the point. The majority of families manage to treat people fairly, raise children who don't "hate" people who don't look like them, and who are respectful to all people regardless of apparent income level, nationality or religion...duh. These kinds of lists make two assumptions: 1) Most of us are intolerant, ignorant bigots. And 2) Minorities are like little children who will appreciate being patronized by white, snotty-nosed college students and guys driving Volvos and VWs.
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posted on
09/15/2001 8:28:13 AM PDT
by
SLM
To: Tijeras_Slim
37. Examine the "diversity profile" for your children's friends. Expand the circle by helping your children develop new relationships.
"Ursula, I'm sure Jason would love to go to the Yankee's game with Joshua, but, at this point, we've just got too many white friends."
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