So.
Okay.
Let me try to understand this.
Amend that. We are talking about Texas conservatives here, so “understanding” may be stretching it. I’m still trying to understand why my best friend of 17 years – also a devote Republican and conservative – decided to axe our friendship because I dared argue with her about atheism. Sometimes you gotta file it under “No place to file.”
*deeeeeeeep breath*
So. Forcing children to learn about the bible – a christian ideological text – in secular, tax-funded classrooms in not indoctrination. Having a state board consider removing all “liberal” historical figures from textbooks and replacing them with right-wing individuals (Newt Gingrich) and organizations (The Moral Majority) would not be indoctrination. Having former President George W. Bush – a Republican – speak to students across the nation about the importance of education and urging children to write him is not indoctrination.
BUT, our current president, Barack Obama, speaking to classrooms across the nation about the importance of taking responsibility for themselves and succeeding in their education IS indoctrination? Apparently, the first steps toward brainwashing our children with such concepts as working hard and respecting people in authority. Only a few steps from another Hitler Youth and the total socialist takeover of our country by a man who is half black.
There are real, live school districts in Texas that are banning his speech from classrooms (Witchita Falls and Lewisville) and some were “debating” today over whether or not to carry the president’s speech (Hurst-Euless-Bedford). And parents – whom I suspect are proud teabaggers – are actually keeping their children home from school. All because the President Obama is going to speak to students. About the importance of education. Being responsible. And, all that other liberal propaganda.
I’m sorry, but where do I get off this crazy train?
I’ve gone from amused to angry to frightened to righteously pissed. The hypocritical bullshit that spews from Texas conservatives’ mouths in the name of “protecting” the children, the country and the good ol’ white American way of life has finally stepped on my last nerve. Remember when Bush, with the assistance of a Republican judge in Florida, stole the presidential election and we liberal folk were told to just suck it up, fer god’s sake, and be adults. We were supposed to respect the president, his Orwellian vice president and all their decisions?
Remember?
Well, right back at ya, motherfuckers. I’m sick and tired of right-wingers being allowed to act like a bunch of unruly, petulant 2-year-olds and no one is calling them on it. They have screamed and mocked and viciously attacked people at town hall meetings regarding health care. They want to indoctrinate students into christianity in taxpayer-funded school districts, yet howl when atheists insist on the separation of church and state. They want to control a woman’s medical decisions through the government, yet rant about their grandmothers being left to die if the government offers a public option in health insurance.They have unrepentantly brought guns within shouting distance of the president. They have called for his death from their pulpits and called his children whores. They have said they are the “real” Americans and they want their country back.
No. You can’t have it back. Real Americans voted in the majority last November and elected our current president.
Or, to put in terms you wingnuts will understand… “Our country. Love it or leave it.”
*bimbles off*
#1 by Michele on September 4, 2009 - 11:11 am
Thank you! Elegantly said. I was shocked to see my midwestern, uneducated, right wing “christian” cousin ranting about how Obama’s speech in her son’s school might send her son over the edge. They are breeding more of the hateful, ignorant bigots and I’m scared.
#2 by Lab Kat on September 4, 2009 - 3:25 pm
Ironic that “their” presidents could speech to schoolchildren and it be okay and when “our” president tries to go it, it’s indoctrination.
Then again, when do most right-wingers stop and actually think? Or, can they at this point?
#3 by Felyne on September 10, 2009 - 10:35 pm
Segregation is fine, as long as it puts you above everyone else and not below them.
You know, the Jewish religion also has these sorts of values, which unfortunately got them into so much trouble in the first half of the 1900s (and arguably still does). Unfortunately what that clearly proved to the human race (or rather, those who are smart enough to see it) is that when you segregate yourself from everyone else in the world, you unfortunately single yourself out as a target by everyone else in the world.
It frustrates and heartbreaks me so much that Christians with their whole ‘Holy Than Thou’ attitudes, who preach freedom and love and all that other crap don’t actually practice what it is their preaching. They have no love nor tolerance for anyone in the world who is not of the same faith. Example: I say “I don’t believe in your God” they say “I will pray for you”. Where’s the tolerance in that? Where’s the “I understand your point of view, we’re both humans and you not believing in God and me believing in God has no relevance to how we spend this sunny Saturday afternoon so let’s go watch a movie”?
Hypocrisy at it’s finest.