Posted on 07/14/2011 12:59:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A kindergarten in Sweden has prohibited teachers to use words that would indicate a child’s gender. Since “he” and “she” can’t be used, children must be defined by the neutral gender. Completely making a mockery of both grammar and common sense, Sweden has taken political correctness to a new level of absurdity.
Almost from infancy, young Swedes begin to be educated in “tolerance toward homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.” Schools choose books based on this worldview. For example, Snow White and Thumbelina are banned because they are “full of traditional gender stereotypes.”
But other types of literature are available in abundance. For example, children are offered books about homosexual giraffes that hatch abandoned crocodile eggs so they can raise a shared newborn.
The word “it,” when applied to a human being with a gender, gives a person genderless characteristics. This politically correct vocabulary not only assumes that there is no difference between man and woman, but it also equates a person to a chair.
Sweden tries to maintain a semblance of fairness by claiming that parents have the right to remove their child from this particular kindergarten if they find the policies objective.
But this is deceiving. Even in prosperous Sweden, there are not enough kindergartens to meet demand. When faced with the decision to send their children to a “politically correct” kindergarten close to home or to go to one located on the other side of the city, parents have little other choice than to send their children to the politically correct institution.
What’s more, while overall government funding for education and culture is shrinking, funding continues to be allocated for projects that promote a neo-liberal ideology.
The zealous efforts of European and U.S. liberals to preach and inculcate political correctness at all costs has shifted from being something quirky — and, at times, even humorous — to becoming a dangerous political phenomenon, particularly when it uses totalitarian methods to achieve its goals.
Liberal ideology loves to claim that it promotes tolerance. Of course, we do need to be tolerant of people that are different in their morals and sexual behavior.
But this tolerance must be mutual and neutral. Defending the rights of a minority should not infringe on the interests and rights of the majority.
Protecting a minority becomes dangerous when that protection means that the majority loses its rights. When special rights are allocated to a minority and when government finances are allocated specifically and exclusively to promote such a group, then these aren’t rights but special privileges.
The most dangerous result of radical political correctness is when any objection to it evokes charges of racism, homophobia and intolerance. In this way, the very concept and definition of racism become diluted and devaluated.
As a result, this plays right into the hands of the true extremists, neo-Nazis and racists. This is how political correctness gets turns on its head and comes back to stab the neo-liberals right in the back.
‘Completely making a mockery of both grammar and common sense...’
The same thing happens every day right here in the US; read through ANY post-modern text and note the use of the inclusive ‘they’ and ‘them’ rather than the grammatically correct ‘he’ and ‘him.’
It’s easy to laugh at the idiocy of the Swedes, a bit more difficult to see the same thing happening here at home.
So that's what you kids are calling it today.
I’m saddened that you don’t remember the Gy-Raffe traps at the deer camp.
The traps that never caught any Gy-Raffes.
***If Giraffes were homosexual they would have long ago become extinct.
This homo nonsense is destroying civilization and is an insult to intelligence!****
It also shows that these people are dumb as posts when it comes to animal reproduction.
Cows and horses- The female ovulates and releases a smell to atract the male. There is no recreational sex.
Dogs -same.
Deer- female ovulates in COLD weather, releases a smell which attracts bucks.
I have worke with cattle and talked to many a rancher and none have ever seen a queer bull, cow, or steer.
I remember that they were really tall.
But I remember Proximo complaining about queer giraffes in the movie Gladiator.
Nope. Muslims don't have to go to war with us. Wait a few generations and they can take over with their numbers.
My liberal friends LOVE Sweden and its social policies. Even some of them, however, are traditional enough to see the lunacy in a genderless society.
there was a reference to queer giraffes in the Gladiator movie.
A case can be made that all ‘gay’ populations are headed for extinction. Indeed, the entire ‘gay’ issue can be considered a ‘croc’.
However, would a Swedish ‘gay’ croc be considered a Croc ‘o baloney?
I’m saddened that you don’t remember the Gy-Raffe traps at the deer camp.
The traps that never caught any Gy-Raffes.
‘Course they didn’t.
All you had to do was bait them with a diamond or two and you would have had a Gal-Raffe trap that produced.
They would have been raffish, but the deer camp men could have coped.
A male animal mounting another male is not sexual amongst animals as much as it is an expression of dominance.
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TheBigIf remembers correctly. Open the door to sexual immorality and everything becomes "okay". All sexual differences, likes, characteristics are now on the table - or should I say, chopping block. Sexual differences are God made, not man made. Messing with natural law will invariably have horrible consequences.
What's even more disturbing is the almost-perfect coherence of the Kulturschmog </Emmett Tyrell> from one continent to another. Swedish homo-Mau-Mau's sound exactly like American ones from California, and they're pushing exactly the same things. Homo-fairy tales, fisting lessons, Heather Has Two Mommies, speech controls, "protecting vulnerable children".
Swedish has reproduced the "non-gender gender" of primitive Proto-Indo-European before it developed gender, when there were two classes of nouns, ergative (=> common gender, later differentiated) and absolute nouns (i.e. non-ergative, non-agentive nouns that could not be subjects of an ergative =>transitive verb), which latter were the ancestors of the neuter case and explain why nominatives and accusatives in the neuter cases of so many I-E languages have identical forms, whether singular or plural.
What’s next, obese gays eating “Host” Twinkies?
Congratulations, Western Civ — what’s Sweden coming to?
i didn’t know that — does it still retain differences in declination of cases for each gender? and when did this change?
As for grammatic correctness, well yes strictly speaking it is incorrect, but who defines what is right anyway? The ultimate arbiter of what constitutes "correct" grammar is usage after all. And getting round this gender identification problem by the use of plurals is becoming increasingly common in everyday speech.
As for the "queer giraffes" in Gladiator - that's probably nothing more than a snide euphemism for the known fact that its very hard to breed many large African animals in captivity.
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