hate the world.

[juldea]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/17/school.dress.ap/index.html

(link from scirocco)

Comments

[waya3k.livejournal.com]

Just one more example of the Rule of the Minority that was perfected by the left now being used by the right.

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

morons.

[fluttergrrl30.livejournal.com]

Overreact much?

Dude, ruffles won't make your kids' "wing-wang" fall off.

[ratbastrd.livejournal.com]

And they replaced it with Camo day? Oh lordy me, some manhood issues here, you think?

[ezrarashkae.livejournal.com]

Jeeze, there's always that one person that needs to piss in everybody else's cornflakes.

[isaiahblake.livejournal.com]

I hope you mean that in the 'hey, this is wrong no matter who's doing it' kind of way.

Rather than the 'everyone else is jumping off the bridge' kind of way.

The fact that you brought up the left makes me think, at least subtextually, you meant the second.

[isaiahblake.livejournal.com]

I read an interesting article about French politics and their comparison to American politics throughout history recently. Apparently, on financial issues, France has traditionally tried to mimic American policy decisions. Recently (the past decade or so), they've had to deal with more social political decisions, however, and the standard French practice has become one of differentiation from American policy.

Puritanical moral roots. Yay!

[waya3k.livejournal.com]

I think it is apprehensible no matter who uses it. I just find it amusing when the left gets bent out of shape when the right does use it.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose this is an online article?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I like what someone else said... Lemme find it...

Okay, I can't find the original comment or who it was by, but it was basically a reference to the, ""You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary," comment... So now instead of letting their kids dress up as members of the opposite gender to become "accustomed" to being gay (or whatever), they're having their kids dress up in camo to become "accustomed" to soldiers/military members/etc... scary.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I make a difference between the minority ruling that all should be treated equally, and the minority ruling that other people can't be doing 'X' because then we'd be acting like a certain group of people and that group is bad.

londo and I were discussing this last night... hopefully he'll hop on and add his comment. If not I'll summarize for him later.

[londo.livejournal.com]

Not exactly. Like nearly every political strategy ever used, the left hit on it first, but it's the right that's perfecting it. But, yes, it's totally the same strategy, just applied in the other direction.

Moral relativism is a tricky beast.

[sammid.livejournal.com]

God shit like that makes me want to scream *deep breaths*
Why in the hell can't it just be said that the bitch that shit on everyone's parade be told that her kids can look like tards,and go to school dressed as they normally would,while everyone else has fun?!Instead one fucking person gets her way,and ruins it for everyone else??

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

If the majority of people were women, do you think that means that men shouldn't have rights?

[waya3k.livejournal.com]

As far as I am concerned only land owners should be allowed to vote.

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

Okay. Now that I think about it, that's not the best example. I don't want to open a can of gender war worms. Anywho, the point is that the minority should still have rights. It doesn't matter if it's the left or the right. We have to have wiggle room for everyone.

(What's with all my worm references?)

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

LOL

[isaiahblake.livejournal.com]

Freud would have many things to say about the worm references, I'm sure.

[isaiahblake.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's in a journal of politics. I'm not sure where you'd find it; I found it through my school's online research database. Hence, school id. I'll send you a copy of the article sometime.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it sounds like very interesting and informative reading.

I need more of that in my life.

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

I've never cared for Freud's theories, but he was great in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.