[Toilet & Bowels]

roots is great

[ploesj]

we shouldn't avoid every bad or offending thing in history, that will only help them to return faster.

'adults believe the monsters are gone when you turn on the light. children know better, they're still under the bed.'

[screamingskull]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

roots is great

All i remember was him getting his foot cut off, and yelling that his name was "NOT TOBEY!!!". Easy lesson for the teacher though, just weeks of watching a TV series, no actual teaching involved.

[floatingslowly]

my name's kunta kinte.

[screamingskull]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

my name's kunta kinte.

ha ha , yeah!, i mean no its very serious.

[floatingslowly]

I hope we don't offend any Klan members by talking about Roots.

maybe if we're really quiet and polite, Roots will go away.

[Danny Himself]

Roots is great. I have the special edition dvd. How cool was Fiddler?

Originally Posted by A Thousand Threads

?!?
are you drunk?

No, but I had only just woken up when I wrote that, which is I probably didn't get my point across properly and ended up sounding like an ass. I'm not going to edit my post, however- it will remain a symbol of my idiocy.

[Brett Robinson]

isnt it already illegal to "discuss" the holocaust in germany, bastian? what's the big deal about the UK?

all this is doing is furthering historical revisionism (written by the winners, of course) and preventing any sort of intelligent discourse.

[!@#$%!]

damn, when i read this first i thought it was an april fool's joke.

unbelievable...

[Green_mind]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

when i did history GCSE i don't think we learned any british history, other than the two world wars.

Yeah me too, I really wanted to do ancient history, but had to do modern history for my gcse. I still enjoyed history though, my history teacher was hot.
I don't agree with this nonsense about appeasing these people. I mean, I believe in freedom of speech, you should have the right to deny such an event if you wish, but for it to go this far sends out signals of how wrong things are.

[demonrail666]

Education in Britain is slowly going down the pan.

[sonicl]

The English education system has been going down the pan for years. 20 years ago I worked in a bank, and a couple of years I joined they had someone join at age 16 who they had to put an alphabet poster on the wall because he couldn't sort things into alphabetical order without it. And before you suggest it, no he wasn't dyslexic.

[jon boy]

there are so many things in britain now that are deemed un pc like you cant say black eye, its bruised eye and you cant say ba ba black sheep and you cant call it a blackboard at school anymore.

next we wont be able to marry our sisters!

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by sonicl

they had someone join at age 16 who they had to put an alphabet poster on the wall because he couldn't sort things into alphabetical order without it.

HAHAHAHAHA!!

we've had to do that for filing clerks before.

wow.....it's a global pandemic!

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by sonicl

The English education system has been going down the pan for years. 20 years ago I worked in a bank, and a couple of years I joined they had someone join at age 16 who they had to put an alphabet poster on the wall because he couldn't sort things into alphabetical order without it. And before you suggest it, no he wasn't dyslexic.

i was going to say dyslexic but UAU.

if i were english i'd be seriously worried-- this kind of shit is a major sign of cultural decadence. i mean, it's like having the pope or the ayatollahs tell you that the earth is fla... god damn what the fuck happened to the great legacy of the enlightenment?

don't you guys have a statue of gibbon somewhere in england that you can pray to? or david hume?? i mean, this sounds like a desperate situation...

[Prisstina]

fuck that shit...if you're gonna be offended, don't attend the class. practically everything taught in a history book could offend someone, so with this attitude, why even teach history?

[Bastian]

Dropping the Holocaust from the curriculum because political correctness has gone mad is even more insane than teaching creationism at schools.

Things like this make the pessimist's thoughts that Europe is lost and on the way down sound more believable.

[luxinterior]

I think we should just drop history from history lessons. Who needs it, right? Yeeahahh. Suck it, learning.

[Everyneurotic]

i went to an all jewish school and got taught the crusades and the spanish inquisition and everything. no one apologized or got offended.


i mean, we got taught communism and no one got upset!

[Bastian]

Originally Posted by Brett Robinson

isnt it already illegal to "discuss" the holocaust in germany, bastian? what's the big deal about the UK?

Two entirely different topics. Totally different motivation behind Germany's laws concerning the Holocaust and the dropping of the topic from school curriculum.

It is illegal to deny the Holocaust in Germany. It was outlawed in post-war Germany because Germans at that point wanted to deny it (*), to get rid of their guilt and to put it away. The law was implemented to prevent nazism to rise again.

(*) It's different nowadays. A recent developement is: A lot of Germans today don't want to deny the Holocaust, but rather use it to make themselves look better in comparison to other countries. Sounds insane? It works like this: They see their "coming to terms with the past" as a national attainment, one which no other nation ever accomplished (not that they had to, since no other nation did a Holocaust) And from this grandious german "Vergangenheitsbewältigung", other countries should learn. Especially the countries that waged war against "poor" Germany in WW2, and still wage wars nowadays. And the victims of Germans, who still have not learned what germans have learned.. Some Germans feel pride in their alleged moral superiority to other nations, other nations which in their eyes did not come to terms with their past. This way, the losers of the 2nd world war and heirs of the mass murderers can feel superior to the winners and heirs of the victims.

Totally discusting, in my eyes.