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the teacher must have known the likely reaction, and that it was likely to be a career ending move. why on earth.......???
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the teacher must have known the likely reaction, and that it was likely to be a career ending move. why on earth.......???
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Apparently the lesson was about what constitutes blasphemy, seems perfectly reasonable to use it as an example, it's a question of context. I don't see why there was any need to backpedal unless it was handled badly by the teacher concerned. By definition something that one group considers blasphemous will cause offence, and surely the process of learning requires the consideration of examples. If it was approached as " this is something that was published can the class consider why it would be seen as blasphemous" that would seem to be appropriate so long as examples against other faiths were also used.
The teacher is in hiding because of death threats from this ‘religion of peace ‘
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Untitled - // And sometimes it is necessary to feel horrified or upset especially in education.... I do not know if this was one of them because we have not been given enough information... but sometimes it is.... learning about the world is not always a pleasant or harmonious experience... and I do not agree that horror and distress over images is all that strange to western culture. //
The inference I take from your apparent approach - and do correct me if I am wrong - is that offence and distress are just a part of life, which is fair enough, and that causing them to cultures other than our own is OK, which is not fair enough.
At what point does anyone say - I don't understand your culture and religion, they are not the same as mine, therefore it doesn't matter if you are offended or upset by something, because I don't feel it personally so it doesn't count.
Of course, that's fine if you hold the whip hand - as in living in a nominally Christian culture with laws and behaviours based accordingly, and let's be clear, that is the situation here, but what if every culture acted in that way?
To my mind, simply allowing upset and distress to occur because it doesn't affect the majority, does not make it right or appropriate.
Surely the answer in building a more tolerant and encompassing world, is that we move towards appreciating and understanding our differences, not simply flag waiving and spouting effectively - our gaff, our rules.
That's not how tolerance works, and it's not how a civilized society should work either.
Not appreciating a difference is one thing, treading all over it because it is a difference - is another.
Since it is utter extremes of religious intolerance that leads to terrorism, it's not a path that I think we should even be looking down, far less marching down it with such self-righteous conviction.
The inference I take from your apparent approach - and do correct me if I am wrong - is that offence and distress are just a part of life, which is fair enough, and that causing them to cultures other than our own is OK, which is not fair enough.
At what point does anyone say - I don't understand your culture and religion, they are not the same as mine, therefore it doesn't matter if you are offended or upset by something, because I don't feel it personally so it doesn't count.
Of course, that's fine if you hold the whip hand - as in living in a nominally Christian culture with laws and behaviours based accordingly, and let's be clear, that is the situation here, but what if every culture acted in that way?
To my mind, simply allowing upset and distress to occur because it doesn't affect the majority, does not make it right or appropriate.
Surely the answer in building a more tolerant and encompassing world, is that we move towards appreciating and understanding our differences, not simply flag waiving and spouting effectively - our gaff, our rules.
That's not how tolerance works, and it's not how a civilized society should work either.
Not appreciating a difference is one thing, treading all over it because it is a difference - is another.
Since it is utter extremes of religious intolerance that leads to terrorism, it's not a path that I think we should even be looking down, far less marching down it with such self-righteous conviction.
If feeling a need to be offended one needs to ask oneself, would normal sane people agree that one should feel offended, or would they consider the thing one is agitated about something $&€=÷×@#$ ridiculous. If the latter then the best thing is to try to grow up.
Folk need to get the fact that they are in a modern civilised country in the year 2021. If their archaic views are allowed priority there then there is no hope for advancement, and there will be an inevitable slide back to the Dark Ages.
Anyone who feels that a picture of someone: ANYONE: is offensive then they ought not make a fuss and inflict this unacceptable view on others but they need to do one of two things. Either a) find a time machine in order to go back ten hundred years in order to live at a time when the rules were even more ridiculous than they are now, or b) go search the Earth to find a backward country whose primitive culture agrees with their daft ideas and to which they can emigrate and live without getting het up over nothing; because such nothing isn't allowed there.
Anyone able to get such folk to reconsider their attitude, must surely be doing a good thing to bring the boil to a head. Trying not to offend others is a worthy aim, but it is much more important to achieve a society where folk aren't forever worried that some individual has been raised to be so oversensitive to nothing, that they will inevitably be offended whatever one does or says.
Folk need to get the fact that they are in a modern civilised country in the year 2021. If their archaic views are allowed priority there then there is no hope for advancement, and there will be an inevitable slide back to the Dark Ages.
Anyone who feels that a picture of someone: ANYONE: is offensive then they ought not make a fuss and inflict this unacceptable view on others but they need to do one of two things. Either a) find a time machine in order to go back ten hundred years in order to live at a time when the rules were even more ridiculous than they are now, or b) go search the Earth to find a backward country whose primitive culture agrees with their daft ideas and to which they can emigrate and live without getting het up over nothing; because such nothing isn't allowed there.
Anyone able to get such folk to reconsider their attitude, must surely be doing a good thing to bring the boil to a head. Trying not to offend others is a worthy aim, but it is much more important to achieve a society where folk aren't forever worried that some individual has been raised to be so oversensitive to nothing, that they will inevitably be offended whatever one does or says.
naomi - // Tolerance is only expected from one side, emmie. It’s civilised don’tya know. //
Not from me it's not - I don't 'expect' tolerence, I just hope it can be displayed by both sides, and in this instance, I see no harm in the majority showing some tolerance to the minority, in the hope that they will reciprocate.
Stopping the intolerance that increasingly plagues modern society has to start somewhere.
Not from me it's not - I don't 'expect' tolerence, I just hope it can be displayed by both sides, and in this instance, I see no harm in the majority showing some tolerance to the minority, in the hope that they will reciprocate.
Stopping the intolerance that increasingly plagues modern society has to start somewhere.
Not from me it's not - I don't 'expect' tolerence, I just hope it can be displayed by both sides, and in this instance, I see no harm in the majority showing some tolerance to the minority, in the hope that they will reciprocate.
Lol good luck with that because they never have done and I do not see them doing so any time soon
Lol good luck with that because they never have done and I do not see them doing so any time soon
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