quash said:
Canon said:
quash said:
Canon said:
HuMcK said:
Gee, doesn't that sound familiar...
No.
You should adjust your settings, somehow the notion of the state banning ideas fails to register on your screen.
My settings are fine. Preventing leftist politicians from using state mandated educational institutions to indoctrinate kids into racism is not remotely like preventing free people from expressing their opinions privately. If you want a parallel to Putin, look to Facebook and Twitter.
Banning ideas is wrong no matter what ideology you fear.
It's not as simple as you see it (not surprised). You're forgetting the educating "our children" part. Or do you think that gov't run education systems should be able to teach your kid whatever they want, whether it's factual or not, without your say and with no regard to your wishes?
As self proclaimed "libertarian", you should be all for citizens (and especially parents) restricting what the gov't can or can't do or can and can't teach.
Power to the people, little man.
Besides, the United States ranks 31st out of 79 countries in math. Maybe our public education system should spend more time focusing on getting those numbers up and less time teaching non-factual racuak theories to elementary school children.
If you want to discuss theories and philosophy we have a whole system of higher education that is completely voluntarily to pursue.