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N.Y. School to Maintain 'Partial' Pledge of Allegiance Policy
Despite pleas that the Pledge of Allegiance should be recited in unison over the public address system, students at an upstate New York elementary school will continue to hear only a six-word prompt before they continue the recitation in their classrooms. |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 655397)
I'm not sure this has been true for a while now. Even elementary school children are learning to be ashamed of the United States -- an historical emphasis on injustices perpetrated against the Native Americans, chattel slavery, child labor, bigotry against immigrants, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and so on. It's considered to be in poor taste to discuss the superiority of the United States or the massive wealth it has brought to the rest of the world.
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Originally Posted by neogenesis2004
(Post 655401)
Because not discussing issues like that that your country perpetrated are what non democratic countries like China, etc.... do, as well as teaching their superiority. Do those people love their respective country; China, Iran, etc...?
I'm talking about the difference between admitting the dark moments in the United States' history and presenting the material as if the United States is responsible for most of the suffering in the world. |
Good intentions don’t matter and a lack of understanding of economic principles is no excuse. What matters are the actual consequences of government policy. Those whom liberals claim to love – the poor – are the ones who suffer the most from liberal economic policies.
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 655397)
I'm not sure this has been true for a while now. Even elementary school children are learning to be ashamed of the United States -- an historical emphasis on injustices perpetrated against the Native Americans, chattel slavery, child labor, bigotry against immigrants, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and so on. It's considered to be in poor taste to discuss the superiority of the United States or the massive wealth it has brought to the rest of the world.
But yes, schools teach guilt for the US. Very much so. But they still teach one to be proud of it, at least where I was from. Pride and guilt. The more they're put together, the more effective each is. |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 655404)
Straw man much?
I'm talking about the difference between admitting the dark moments in the United States' history and presenting the material as if the United States is responsible for most of the suffering in the world. |
Originally Posted by neogenesis2004
(Post 655414)
I have no idea what you are implying, srsly. Those two sound like one in the same to my feeble mind.
Admitting that the U.S. has made mistakes = The U.S. is responsible for most of the suffering in the world Don't see any issues with that? Those two statements mean the same thing? |
Actually I gave up caring that this whole discussion is in the wrong thread and decided to just start egging it on and getting it further off track. If you can't beat them, join them.
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Originally Posted by neogenesis2004
(Post 655416)
Actually I gave up caring that this whole discussion is in the wrong thread and decided to just start egging it on and getting it further off track. If you can't beat them, join them.
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Originally Posted by chpmnsws6
(Post 655441)
Russia?
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 655448)
In Soviet Russia, dick joke makes you.
In Soviet Russia, bread lines "common good” you. |
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
Originally Posted by Reverant
Wait, what? You can\'t own land?
Not when the government can seize my property if I fail to pay my $700 tax. |
Originally Posted by Joseph B
(Post 655458)
Is that per month, quarter, or year? There are many homeowners in NJ paying over $15k a year on property taxes, which should be considered criminal. But we have to send the wealth to less fortunate shit holes such as Newark so they can spend a billion a year for their 70% drop out rate.
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Originally Posted by Joseph B
(Post 655458)
There are many homeowners in NJ paying over $15k a year on property taxes, which should be considered criminal.
So you need to pay someone with a lot of guns a set amount of money to leave you alone, or they'll hurt you, take what you own? The mob calls it protection. The government calls it taxes. |
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