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>>I would be interested in your reasons for thinking they are "jackbooted" and "intolerant". I do not agree with any of your generalized attacks but these two strike me as more remarks that would fit more with the party in power. Please explain.
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>You're kidding me, right?
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>I live in an area with an extremely liberal school board. In order as to not "offend" any particular religious group, the holidays break has been turned into the "Winter Festival". Specific mention of Christmas, Hannukah, or any other religious component is discouraged (maybe even outright banned but I'm not sure of that).
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>So...it's a tyranny of the offended minority. To me - the evil libertarian-conservative, the path to understanding is not to stamp out respect for cultural traditions (there's the jackboot part), but to celebrate it and to educate. I would absolutely love my kids to learn all about the traditions of other cultures rather than suppress any mention of them. The current line of thinking is intolerant; it's intolerant of the idea that with understanding comes respect; it's intolerant of the idea that we all come from different backgrounds and to homogenize it is to diminish tolerance.


While many would see this as misguided, but I do not think the intent is based on intolerance but more on attempt to tolerate all religions and culutures by not promoting one over another. If I had children I would want them to learn about all but I would not want them pressured to conform to any of them.

I think many social-conservatives believe their religion is the correct one and others are inferior and not deserving of respect. The intent of your liberal school board is to make the offended minority feel equal, the intent of the social-conservatives is to make value judgements on others and make their kind feel superior.