Dogmaphobe
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- Sep 22, 2014
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Poor, poor children in California being "indoctrinated"
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One of the problems with those who are extremely partisan is they become what they hate. Westboro baptist is a reprehensible group of hateful nut jobs, but that does not mean you need to be every bit as rigid and dogmatic as they are in order to oppose them. This need to create an oppressive Maoist-style cultural revolution by forcing identity politics into every possible aspect of life is not the answer. It makes you every bit the zealot as the zealots you fight.
Do you know anything about German history? The Weimar area was a time of tremendous social upheaval, what with the cabarets and loose morals. Heck, my Mother's cousin was an actress who starred in German film of the time and was in the first lesbian scene recorded in a movie. The thing is, this was just all too much, too fast for the German people, and when the Nazis promised a return to order, it wasn't just because of the usual stuff people offer about German humiliation after ww1 or the inflation. It was about the promise of return to SOCIAL order.
Dude, you push hard enough, and some times the push back can be a real bitch.