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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - - Posts by Silvershield |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I won't go off on my own tagent because Skydude is pretty much approximating how I feel about this. It's not a matter of being pro- or anti-gay, it's a matter of morality being taught to young children in schools. To address your question directly: no, teachers should not read "whatever they want" to their grammar school-age students. Especially if the content they propose to use has material that some parents might find objective. | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by maxNo, because heterosexuality is the "norm" and, as such, acts as a sort of control group. It describes the overwhelming majority of America's population and, even so, appears as a neutral rather than an influence in one direction or the other. However, since the homosexual issue has yet to be settled here in America, it is still politically charged (as was pointed out earlier) and so it carries with it the sense of a teacher imposing a political or moral standard on his students. |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| And, for the record, these kids are in third grade. They are seven years old. If you want to push your political views on your students, at least let them grow to a less impressionable age. That is one of my bigger gripes with this whole issue. | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I'm not going to "guess" anymore. By her own admission (though with more specific terminology), she is a person of ambiguous gender. Also in her own words, she is attracted to people of either gender. So, she is a person of amibiguous gender who is bisexual.
I'm not about to submit and think up some ludicrous politically correct phrase to describe it. That is in no way an attack on Kasumi or the gay community; if she or anyone else takes offense to it, it is because that person would rather place a happy-friendly-rainbows and butterflies label on everything in this country, instead of the more practical solution of having people grow thicker skins. |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Are you familiar with the idiom "thick skin?" | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| That sort of insulting remark is hardly befitting a moderator. At least my biting little comment had some reasonable basis. | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Traumatic in a "I knew exactly what to expect, and I did it to myself" kind of way .
Strangely reminiscent of that typical locker room situation where a guy says "Hey, look over here" and, although you know his package will be exposed and in full sight, you look anyway. And I am now thoroughly embarassed after sharing that last story... Edit for a missing word. (edited by Silvershield on 04-26-06 07:01 PM) |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I'll expand on Ziff's post - which appeared in his typical style of inserting an obscure phrase without any detail to back it up, all in the aim of looking knowledgable or insightful - by at least providing a link explaining Pascal's Wager. | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by VyperOr, in this case, my retinas. |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by ||bassThe happy medium is probably some combination of a physically confined space - that is, a jail in some sense - but with less of a brute force approach to rehabilitation. As it is, the system seems to be one of "go to jail, come out in x years, that's it." A significant psychotherapeutic component needs to be thrown in the middle, somewhere in beween "go to jail" and "get out of jail." Heh heh. |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I need to clarify that I in no way advocate any sort of bigotry, and that I am all for a person's freedom to exp |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| Well, many people in the field of psychology have a very strong association with a particular school of thought, and are loathe to give it up. (I know that even a friend and I, who are hardly professionals, consistently argue about the validity of Freud's theories.) I don't know what more to say about that. | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I'm just covering all angles, because I know I'll be called a bigot in some context at some point in the future. | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| First of all, I'm not sure which occasion you're referring to when you say you've proven me wrong on "factual grounds" in some argument.
Secondly, why does disgust with our modern society's tendency towards a ridiculous degree of political correctness constitute homophobia? |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationMy "attacks on you" are not the baseless, random insults ("Are you familiar with the song 'If I Only Had a Brain...?'") that you throw at me. I react offensively when you've given me reason to, not because I enjoy inciting a moderator. Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationOk, she's transsexual. That makes the job of classifying her preference even eaiser: she is a bisexual transsexual. Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationWhich is appropriate, because I'm not a homophobe. Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationFull agreement there. Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationWould you like to point out a single instance in which anything I've said can justify this accusation? What the hell are you talking about? Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationI accept and tolerate everyone. Being a huge fan of the actions those people commit is a different story, but that doesn't stop me from affording any person with an "alternative lifestyle" the same respect and dignified treatment that I'd give to anybody else. |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| ...yeah, it doesn't really suit my taste that Clinton was censured when his only crime, effectively, was cheating on his wife. That's a terrible thing to do, sure, but it doesn't justify any sort of action taken on his political or occupational life. | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I know, but why should his personal sexual relations be an appropriate topic for him to be questioned about under oath? | |||
Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationDon't make it out to sound like I'm in denial or something. I would hardly consider myself homophobic, that's for sure, but I also fail to see any words of mine that would give that impression in the first place. Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationElaborate? |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationBeing PC doesn't mean being tolerant, it means using stupid, sterile language to describe something that can be described more bluntly. Describing something bluntly isn't always meant to offend the person being described, it's sometimes just because a person doesn't feel like doing verbal acrobatics to exp Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationNo need, because you can already see it in any of my past posts. |
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Silvershield![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 5920 days Last view: 5908 days |
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| I kinda meant it as a real question...on what grounds was information regarding his extramarital affair brought into a court of law? |
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