“I’m losing my tolerance for the amount of tolerance I’m supposed to tolerate.”
That quote comes from a concerned parent regarding a video shown in a New Jersey school about diversity:
The film, “That’s a Family!”, looks at diversity through the eyes of children who talk about their own families. One child talks about having mixed-race parents. Another talks about living with a divorced parent. Others talk about single parents, traditional parents, adoptive parents.
And then there’s the child who says, “This is my mom. Her name is Betty. And this is my other mom. Her name is Kim.”
As one parent told NBC’s Ron Allen, “I’m losing my tolerance for the amount of tolerance I’m supposed to tolerate.”
The film was shown last December to a third-grade class in Evesham’s J. Harold Van Zant School. When parents heard from their children about the film, some objected…
…At an Aug. 30 meeting the board heard the recommendation of the committee and then voted to ban the video altogether. The state-mandated diversity program would be addressed through discussion, it decided, not a film.
The problem this presents, however, and the reason that the school probably decided to go this route, is that teachers addressing the problem through “discussion” is unfiltered and, more importantly, unable to be reviewed. I would certainly be more concerned about a teacher addressing the issue behind closed doors in a conversation that I’m not privy to than the video itself — after all, at least I would know what was said. But in this day and age of teachers telling children not to tell parents what they’ve been told at school I’m a little anxious about teachers trying to usurp the role of moral authority in children’s lives.
Which brings me to the overall point — liberalism is really a mentally crippled concept. It’s a beast with two left feet and two heads. Liberalism cries, “You can’t legislate morality!” and then forces its morals onto our children through school videos such as this. It screams to the top of its lungs, “You must be accepting of all lifestyles, faiths, and backgrounds!” but refuses to accept those lifestyles, faiths, and backgrounds that are contrary to its own twisted beliefs. Liberalism is a merchant of death that scoffs at those who try to preserve life. It sells poison labeled as freedom and mocks the ones who try to get those who taste it to drink Water.
I know this is a heavy thought, but honestly we need to look at the core values here and determine on which side “right” and “truth” lies. Just to lighten things up a bit, here’s a video that I think perfectly illustrates my point:
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Liberalism can try to justify its beliefs all day long, but at the end of the day it’s still the side with skulls on their caps.
