Posted on 03/06/2006 4:50:39 PM PST by PowerBruin
It was a geography class. Comparing Bush to Hitler has nothing to do with where rivers flow or jungles grow.
We just have to remember the dumbest creatures on earth are collge students. Well maybe Collge professors.
The real message here is that if you are slick enough you can get away with hyping dope to kids without really being noticed.
Betcha' the girl who wrote that "editorial" understood exactly what Bennish was saying ~ and may have in mind a free score if she can get him to stop over for an interview.
Fight On.
Some of Hitler's biggest supporters were German university students. They were overwhelmingly pro-Nazi. There's a reason for this. The herd instinct is strongest among this age group and segment of society. They want desperately to be part of the crowd. They're easily led into a collectivist mentality. QED.
This case should not be about free speech. Bennish is a geography teacher, his job is to teach geography, not spout his liberal politics.
The parents should sue for consumer fraud. He is selling a faulty product and they are forced to buy it.
He has every right to say what he wants on his own time and not from a taxpayer funded pulpit.
The trouble is, the people who say they are doing this to make people think always seem to be coming from the far left side to do so. You might think if this were a valid pedagogical technique that once in a while the excess would be on the conservative side of the argument.
That's Cherry Creek, dips*** college puke.
editorialboard@media.ucla.edu
In case any of you care to respond. I did.
RED HERRING ALERT!!! This is the strawman spin the pro-Bennish folk have decided to hang their hat on, but it doesn't hold water.
When you have a Governmental Authority figure lecturing to minors who are required under penalty of the law to listen to him, what you have is abuse under the color of authority. This case is no different than a cop using his position to impose his will on a prisoner.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would be over if America was as violent and evil as the liberals claim.An evil country would carpet bomb entire towns with Daisy Cutter size bombs and not care who they killed.America does the exact opposite and endangers the lives of it's military in order to avoid killing civilians.I don't know of any other country that protects innocent lives as much as America.
On the other hand, this editorialist clearly has a bright future with the MSM.
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