I'll engage with this, but what are you talking about? — tim wood
What are your thoughts on the matter? — Patulia
our economy is slowly sinking, the South of the country has been devastated by corruption and no one knows anymore what meritocracy is. — Patulia
And I'm a free speech absolutist, so I have a problem with suspending the teacher, too. — Terrapin Station
I am Sicilian and the stereotypes — Patulia
Yes, labeling is unfair. But is it just a matter of stereotyping? Or in other words, maybebut it's very unfair to label all Sicilians as criminals. — Patulia
this hatred is understandable. After all, there is no accounting for feeling. But is not this an example of misplaced feeling and anger? If my nest is fouled, I may hate you for calling it out to me, but at the same time, you did not foul my nest. Nor you Sicily. You may even be the best thing that ever was from or about Sicily - but how does that bear on the history both distant and recent of your island? And finally, why would you hate? You're neither Sicily nor responsible for the corruption that by appearances seems to have long attended its being - that much at least is a fact. Unless you're in denial!I just hate when they attack Sicily. — Patulia
Not a question to argue, but as to your view: you may have noticed a news item from Florida about a public school principal who explained that instruction on the Holocaust was conditioned on, had to be conditioned on, sensitivity to parents who did not "believe in the Holocaust - implying (strongly) that the Holocaust was a matter of belief/opinion and not of fact. He's suspended, and maybe by now fired. If you're the superintendent of schools in that city, what do you do with him? — tim wood
Clearly the only sensible answer is, as Tzeentch, would have it, to lock your doors and pretend that it is still 1919.
But of course we can no longer sustain that fantasy. — Fooloso4
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