Tutorial in tolerance (high school kid in Marin County)

SF Chronicle ^ | May 21, 2002 | Harold Johnson

[laureldrive]

FUNNY HOW getting hauled into court sometimes jogs the memory of public officials as to their constitutional responsibilities. As recently as three weeks ago, administrators at Novato High School were telling 18-year-old student Andrew Smith that The Buzz, the school's newspaper, wouldn't be publishing his article that blasted affirmative action as "reverse racism." When Smith took the step of filing a lawsuit charging the school district with violating his rights, space was finally found last week in the paper for his critique of quotas and race preferences.

[What Is Ain't]

Liberalism is an intolerant religion.

[mhking]

Liberalism is an intolerant religion.

But I thought Liberalism was a religion of peace!

[philman_36]

"Parents must understand that zero tolerance means just that," he said. "We won't tolerate anything."

[philman_36]

Ain't is a contraction of are not.

[Draco]

Glad to see he will see this through. Wonder if the media in general picks this up. I was in Phoenix over the weekend and the "big" story was a 15 year old girl who wanted to bring another girl to a school dance. She was portrayed as enlightened, and those opposing her bringing another girl to the dance were "backwards." There is a lot of suppression of conservative speech here in California. Laura Bush and UCLA's commencement; Berkeley course description advising conservatives not to sign up; etc. Glad to see this slap down.

[philman_36]

Ain't that funny?

[laureldrive]

Michelle Malkin

May 8, 2002

A lesson for GOP panderers

The Republican Party needs to hire Andrew Smith to help shape its message on immigration. At 18, this senior at Novato High School in Marin County, Calif., has more common sense and cojones than the hapless panderers in the GOP who have thrown their principles to the wind. .....

link: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20020508.shtml

[What Is Ain't]

It is a religion of peace - on their terms.

[rageaholic]

Intolerance is not necessarily bad. Clintonesque Hypertolerance is definately bad, and leads to the INS importing arab "students" with boxcutters and changing the demographics of the nation so that parts of Queens look like downtown Karachi, or Bhopal after the disaster.

[stands2reason]

LOL!!!

[headsonpikes]

Liberalism, like Islam, is a religion of peace.

[lormand]

"At 18, this senior at Novato High School in Marin County, Calif., has more common sense and cojones than the hapless panderers in the GOP who have thrown their principles to the wind. ....."

Amen Bro!

Add Lyndon Bains Bush to that list too.

[yendu bwam]

Instead of defending a student's exercise of free speech, school officials responded by turning on him. They confiscated the remaining issues of the paper, sent a letter to parents denouncing the article and organized public meetings at which Smith was demeaned and derided.

Most of our school administrators today are cowards.

[cgbg]

I have traveled all over this country, and I can say with confidence that the people of Marin County are the most arrogant, self-righteous, bigoted left-wing jerks I have seen.

That one student is a true American hero by standing up to these self-appointed guardians of truth and social justice.

[Jay W]

This is what is to be expected when schools try to simultaneously teach the concepts of tolerance and zero tolerance!

[laureldrive]

Marin County tolerated a teen-aged jihadist; why not Andrew Smith?

[moyden]

Every liberal is a thug.

[Question_Assumptions]

Let the liberals behave like the thugs that they are. After all, Ronald Reagan's anti-communist conservativism was shaped by the communist thugs in the actors' union.

[Paul Ross]

No, that was ISLAM, "The Religion of Peace." TM