Tolerance seems to be in short supply these days dispite the fact that society allegedly promotes the concept. In Woodburn, IN, a student wrote a short piece on tolerating homosexuals in her student newspaper. The administration is pushing for the teacher/advisor's termination for failing to "alert" the principal to a "sensitive" issue. They claim it is not a cse of First Amendment free speech.
Is it any wonder that people are killing those who are different when in the country that claims to be be the bastion of freedoms statrs censoring it's citizens at such an early age?
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Blog Archive
About Me
- OrdinaryShark
- A poet/attorney, I like to believe that I singlehandedly lowered the dress standard of the entire Maine Bar.
13 comments:
shark-thought i'd stop over and take a gander at ur blog. hope u don't mind. i read the short piece and am amazed at how mature the piece was. to terminate the teacher/advisor simply because that person didn't alert the principal to a sensitive issue is ludicrous. yeah, we can see why people aren't tolerant when sposedly they are promotoing it. this country has become one of the least tolerant in my eyes...refusing to let gays marry, the racial prejudice that still goes on after hundreds of yrs, you name it. everyone is spose to have 'freedom of speech' and 'equal rights', i'm still waiting on the day when i see that for everyone. cuz despite the fact that they say we do, i just don't see it.
Yikes. Looks like the school has management AND leadership issues. ;) perfect.
ciara- thanks for stopping by. Always welcome. You are right, tolerance needs to practiced, not just taught.
jbelle- on the plus side, they apparently produced the child that wrote the piece. I always learn from children.
So many threads to take up here. This one rings particularly true for me:
The administration is pushing for the teacher/advisor's termination for failing to "alert" the principal to a "sensitive" issue.
Nothing like being held accountable for someone else's line in the sand you didn't know existed. Your esquireship, please help me to understand, where does, if at all, "justice" fall in such an equation?
Rhetorical but have it if you are so inclined. I could stand more enlightenment.
Mmmm, yes.
--
wow, who knew that mel's lil story would turn out to be a novel...hehe jk i loves her so :)
and mel, ur right, ppl across the pond, heck prob all over europe are far more tolerant than here. america is one of the most uptight societies. i'm always watching out for what i say or do because goodness if i 'offend' someone. do u know how hard it is for a person who's so open-minded, talks bout anything, and straightforward to keep their mouth shut some of the time? lol
sharkie~~i learn a lot from children, too...i learn from all ppl. the minute i stop learning is the minute i cease to exist.
on the side, info received; info redirected.
Pt- Justice? Justice! We don't got no stinking justice around here! Actually justice is a hugely loaded concept and enough for an entire blog. Justice is fairness to all people. Justice is civilization at it's best. Justice is, to link it here, very simply put, Tolerance. If there had been tolerance all around no one would have been bent out of shape at this girl’s observation/piece. If there was tolerance, there would have been no call for the observation to begin with.
Which takes us to my belief as to the major source of intolerance: religion. The primary reason for death between people from the dawn of age is intolerance. Once it was formalized into the concept of religion it became worse since the killing was done in the name of a supreme being. (I prefer to let large g God to handle her own retribution.) Chase around the Jews, Crusades, World Wars, Ireland, most genocide. The Commies get their own non-religion religion status. How much of this all happens without intolerance? I know it's simplistic but I'm not a deep thinker, mostly an observer. And there are, of course exceptions. AND there is the fact that much of this religious based intolerance (conflict) comes from people’s interpretation of the religion. It goes on.
.
Therefore Mel- I even try to have tolerance for arseholes. (I try. I don't always succeed.)
And Ciara- that would bring up my favorite saying modified for me: You learn something everyday if you're not careful.
Oh, and jbelle, thanks and Marm, put away the manual, you started it all.
I'm not a deep thinker, mostly an observer.
I like that...
and...
are they not, at base, One?
--
Post a Comment