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Old Apr 30, 2007, 08:50 pm   #6 (permalink) (top)
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Now, I know the initial reaction is "Why should I watch some right wing propaganda BS?" And I would agree, why should you? In this case, you ain't. This is an educational video for teachers and instructors, it is NOT a video done by some right winger.

The right wingers got a hold of it.

The second video is really interesting, wait till you see what Mr. Teacher has the kids do AFTER the young lady reads her essay.
I am shocked! SHOCKED! How dare that teacher ask his students to discuss something? Doesn't he know that children are to be seen and not heard? That they are to be instructed in the morals handed down to us by THE LORD OUR GOD, He who made this country and gives us all good things, and made our laws and wrote the Constitution -- oh, wait. Crap. :rolleyes:

I cannot for the life of me understand how this is supposed to be brainwashing, or propaganda, or inappropriate, or anything other than a useful lesson in variation and differences. It is one day out of the year, and it certainly sounded to me like anyone who didn't agree was allowed to disagree; nobody said that THIS was the right thing to do and THIS was the wrong thing to do. This is what education should be like.

Though I find it ironic in the extreme that at the end of the second video were a couple of Bible passages and the (unbelievably ridiculous) statement that if all humans were gay, then humanity would die out in 100 years and thus homosexuality is evil and wrong. THAT was the closest thing I saw to brainwashing. And the stupidest.


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