Political Correctness Squared

[MountainHunter]

My friend's daughter wore a shirt saying, basically, to vote against Bush. Nothing remotely obscene about the shirt. Lots of kids wore pro-Bush shirts, anti-Democrat shirts and hats (they live ina very conservative area of Virginia). She got called into the office and then sent home when she refused to wear her shirt inside-out. While this was going on, one of the high school kids who worked in the office where she was being sent homewas wearing an anti-Democrat shirt.

Is this democracy?

Nope, not right, but then again, I can't see it going down exactly like that either. But stranger things has happened. Shoot, I got the crap beat out of me once for saying Reagan was a good good by Union peoples kids in Eastern Ky in 1980's. So anything is possible.

[MountainHunter]

Your being beaten up isn't right either (Reagan was the first President I voted for when I turned 18 in 1984), but I think it's much more disturbing when it's an offical "policy" for a school to suppress certain opinions but not others.

ORIGINAL: MountainHunter

Your being beaten up isn't right either (Reagan was the first President I voted for when I turned 18 in 1984), but I think it's much more disturbing when it's an offical "policy" for a school to suppress certain opinions but not others.

Absolutely. I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to not have any pressure on who to vote for, by my family. My Grandfather used to say, you got to make up your own mind. Every child should have that. I always heard over and over that dems are for the working man, and all that. But I didn't see it, I saw the opposite. So here I am. That girl could have saw it from a different angle.

But in all honesty, I don't see the benefit of children wearing clothing for either dem or repub or moderate or whatever. I can see it being trouble like this situation.

[Fox72]

I don't think there should be clothes endorsing a party to school. It is sure to cause problems, and these kids don't know crap about politics. They are just repeating what they have heard.

I am currently attending classes full time at a local technical college. These 18-25 year olds don't even know American history, let alone politics. It amazes me that so many young people don't even question right or wrong. They just believe what they are told. I have talked with a lot of these kids because I am interested in their point of view. It just doesn't seem they take the time to evaluate why they believe the way they do. Despite the views they hold, they can't seem to explain why they believe that way.

[MountainHunter]

I know what you mean. Kids think they know everything because they haven"™t really questioned what they know yet. I"™m glad We were NEVER that way! Or maybe we were, just a little bit"¦

Actually, I was lucky. My parents were Republicans, but they encouraged me and my siblings to think for ourselves. They tried to convince us of what they thought was right, but listened to what we thought and asked us good questions that made us think things through.

What really amazes me is when 30- or 40- or 50-somethings haven"™t even begun to think for themselves, much less really think things through!

I"™d better stop; I"™m getting preachy![8D]

[vc1111]

Kids think they know everything because they haven"™t really questioned what they know yet.

Later they realize that life cannot be easily dichotomized.

Still later as adults we again dichotomize seeking order.