This is the hope and change we've been waiting for? A 14 year old girl decided to conduct an experiment in tolerance at her school. How tolerant are those who favor hope and change?
Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.
She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching "inclusion," and she decided to see how included she could be.
So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:
"McCain Girl."
Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain's name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.
"People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn't be wearing it," Catherine said.
Then it got worse.
"One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed," Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.
But students weren't the only ones surprised that she wore a shirt supporting McCain.
"In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain," Catherine said.
"Later, that teacher found out about the experiment and said she was embarrassed because she knew I was writing down what she said," Catherine said.
One student suggested that she be put up on a cross for her political beliefs.
"He said, 'You should be crucifixed.' It was kind of funny because, I was like, don't you mean 'crucified?' " Catherine said.
Other entries in her notebook involved suggestions by classmates that she be "burned with her shirt on" for "being a filthy-rich Republican."
Some said that because she supported McCain, by extension she supported a plan by deranged skinheads to kill Obama before the election. And I thought such politicized logic was confined to American newsrooms. Yet Catherine refused to argue with her peers. She didn't want to jeopardize her experiment.
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I always knew it, but this election really enforced it. Liberals aren't tolerant. I know because I was attacked while protesting Dear Leader Chairman Obama's rally in Springfield, MO the Saturday night before the election. Two women actually tried to force my arm to release my pro-McCain statements out of my hand. They weren't nice about it. They were pulling and yanking quite hard to get it from me. I have never seen anything like it.
I always knew it, but this election really enforced it. Liberals aren't tolerant. I know because I was attacked while protesting Dear Leader Chairman Obama's rally in Springfield, MO the Saturday night before the election. Two women actually tried to force my arm to release my pro-McCain statements out of my hand. They weren't nice about it. They were pulling and yanking quite hard to get it from me. I have never seen anything like it.
Yeah. if you think about it, intolerance on a wide scale only comes from the left. All your dictatorships were born of left wing ideas. Right wing governments that believe in free markets, free speech and freedom of religion generally don't go around beating their people into silence.
"All your dictatorships were born of left wing ideas."
Are you saying Franco or Pinochet were left wing? Surely not.
I'm saying I'd take my chances under Franco and Pinochet instead of Stalin, Hitler, Chairman Mao et al...One can argue, very easily, that Franco and Pincohet, given the political climate in Europe at the time, saved millions of lives by keeping their nations from the hands of leftist dictators...come one man...everyone knows you can't implement universal anything without oppression...Admit it...You need to be told what to do.
"Admit it...You need to be told what to do."
We both know that it will be you to claim "I was only following orders" when you are judged.
Anon. Why don't you sign up for a google account if you want to argue? Or start your own blog/ You know, get a voice.
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