Those Freedom Loving Liberals!

[Cow Poke]

I have some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you.

With all the earthquakes in Cali, that might not be so funny one day.

[One Bad Pig]

Public schools reflect the ideology of their attendant's parents. You're thinking of colleges.

I have some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you.

[Psychic Missile]

And public schools are of course well known for being bastions of conservative thought.

Public schools reflect the ideology of their attendant's parents. You're thinking of colleges.

[Psychic Missile]

Whose political ideology created school administrators in the form we all know and despise today?

I don't think that's relevant.

[Psychic Missile]

30 second search:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...-pastry?lite=e

AllPeopleRights replied Mar 4, 2013
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Perhaps they are trying to catch problems early on - before the kid becomes a mass shooter later. Perhaps this particular kid has brought focus to guns before? We don't know all the details here.

bill-3241772 commented Mar 5, 2013

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Probably a gun totin bible thumper republicant kid in whose family it is considered a "right" to show the gun as a means of ahem, self defense. Which we all know as weapons of mass destruction.

Anyway, the point isn't that the average liberal is this crazy, but rather that this craziness is just the natural extension of liberalism.

I meant people who have some sort of weight to the things they say, but w/e, you understand that was a minor part of my larger point.

Umm, of course it's school administrators, who else would ban things in schools? But that's not the only commonality, the other commonality is liberalism.

Liberals don't believe students shouldn't be able to express their religion on their own time, so the commonality is a straw man.

[One Bad Pig]

Here we are again ... once again I'm getting close to leaving this forum for its consistent and continuous demonisation of anyone with even the most slightly progressive view as one of those AWFUL LIBERALS. Blame, blame, blame. Let's take an entire spectrum of political thought and condense it down to one hated word: LIBERAL. Let's look for things to complain about from the OTHER SIDE.

I don't post about Glen Beck and the stupid things he says because I understand that he is not representative of conservative thought. I can't be the only one who is intelligent enough to hold a nuanced view of people with whom I disagree ...... can I?

Pman, please don't paint the forum with a broad brush because some posters are posting with a ...broad brush. You are indeed not the only one here capable of nuance. Those without (or with the least) nuance tend to shout the loudest, but you're going to find that pretty much everywhere; withdrawing from conversation here won't fix that.

[phank]

I wonder if seer thinks the evil liberal forces will run for cover if he starts enough threads trying to badmouth his caricature of what they might be.

In any case, as presented, this case sounds stupid. There doesn't appear to be any official school sponsorship or support. Now, if the rest of the story, omitted for some reason, is that the school denied the same opportunity to a group of wiccans, then we might have something substantive here.

[Meta Knight]

Can you name anyone who approved of those actions outside of the administrators and teachers involved? Has any group spoken out in approval? Schools are always panicky about things. They ban tag because kids might fall and get hurt. They ban toys because they become fads. They ban games because they're considered gambling. They ban clothes because they're gang colors. Schools have banned hugging and high fives. The commonality isn't political ideology, it's school administrators.

And public schools are of course well known for being bastions of conservative thought.

[Jedidiah]

Can you name anyone who approved of those actions outside of the administrators and teachers involved? Has any group spoken out in approval? Schools are always panicky about things. They ban tag because kids might fall and get hurt. They ban toys because they become fads. They ban games because they're considered gambling. They ban clothes because they're gang colors. Schools have banned hugging and high fives. The commonality isn't political ideology, it's school administrators.

I need a negative amen button for this.

[seer]

Here we are again ... once again I'm getting close to leaving this forum for its consistent and continuous demonisation of anyone with even the most slightly progressive view as one of those AWFUL LIBERALS. Blame, blame, blame. Let's take an entire spectrum of political thought and condense it down to one hated word: LIBERAL. Let's look for things to complain about from the OTHER SIDE.

I don't post about Glen Beck and the stupid things he says because I understand that he is not representative of conservative thought. I can't be the only one who is intelligent enough to hold a nuanced view of people with whom I disagree ...... can I?

Pancreasman this is not about some liberal saying something stupid. The vast majority of my threads are about liberals using law or government to restrict the freedom of others. Like in this thread. I find that chilling...

[Epoetker]

Schools are always panicky about things. They ban tag because kids might fall and get hurt. They ban toys because they become fads. They ban games because they're considered gambling. They ban clothes because they're gang colors. Schools have banned hugging and high fives. The commonality isn't political ideology, it's school administrators.

Whose political ideology created school administrators in the form we all know and despise today?

[Darth Executor]

Can you name anyone who approved of those actions outside of the administrators and teachers involved?

30 second search:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...-pastry?lite=e

AllPeopleRights replied Mar 4, 2013
#290.1
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Perhaps they are trying to catch problems early on - before the kid becomes a mass shooter later. Perhaps this particular kid has brought focus to guns before? We don't know all the details here.

bill-3241772 commented Mar 5, 2013

#299
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Probably a gun totin bible thumper republicant kid in whose family it is considered a "right" to show the gun as a means of ahem, self defense. Which we all know as weapons of mass destruction.

Anyway, the point isn't that the average liberal is this crazy, but rather that this craziness is just the natural extension of liberalism.

Has any group spoken out in approval? Schools are always panicky about things. They ban tag because kids might fall and get hurt. They ban toys because they become fads. They ban games because they're considered gambling. They ban clothes because they're gang colors. Schools have banned hugging and high fives. The commonality isn't political ideology, it's school administrators.

Umm, of course it's school administrators, who else would ban things in schools? But that's not the only commonality, the other commonality is liberalism.

[Psychic Missile]

Why would conservatives, who sleep with their guns, get hysterical about a kid making a gun out of a sandwich? It's the people who get hysterical about anything even remotely resembling a gun who would overreact to something like that.

Can you name anyone who approved of those actions outside of the administrators and teachers involved? Has any group spoken out in approval? Schools are always panicky about things. They ban tag because kids might fall and get hurt. They ban toys because they become fads. They ban games because they're considered gambling. They ban clothes because they're gang colors. Schools have banned hugging and high fives. The commonality isn't political ideology, it's school administrators.

[Darth Executor]

Why would conservatives, who sleep with their guns, get hysterical about a kid making a gun out of a sandwich? It's the people who get hysterical about anything even remotely resembling a gun who would overreact to something like that.

[Psychic Missile]

Nope. Just liberals.