Sunday, November 18, 2007

Political correctness not so good, it appears


When you find an article in contemporary daily press that is sound in reason, you are almost surprised that this is even possible among all the ranting about crime, economy and pop culture. But, I found one today, and want to share, by translating it.

Hans Olovsson writes:

Spare the 3-year-old children from political correctnessES


In Wednesday's Jönköpings-Posten we wrote in the Editorial a critical article about how the 3-year-old children are going to be the target of teaching instruction at a free daycare centre. The reason of doubts are the long-term effects of this zeal and the need to scrutinize it. Daycare has become a pre-school, a pre-school need a curriculum an a special teaching instruction, which is not as innocent as it sounds. One example: in the present curriculum for the preschool there is a statement about how to work against the traditional gender roles and patterns.

Parents, who possibly have a different view of how to bring up their children, have few opportunities of other choices if there is a free preschool available.
All reasons in the world can be put forward in order to argue for equality. But when one wants to lay it on the little ones, one has to be sure that their parents support this idea fully. If they don't, one should not force the children into the system. Of course! The parents can pass on it, but then they give up the tax-paid part of the system (paid by their tax money), the preschool. I read somewhere that Swedish children belong to those best equipped in critical thinking skills. I wonder... I do not think that it is the critical thinking, but, more or less, the preservation of the political correctnessES. These come forth when it is more important to think alike than to think freely. Therefore this gender-oriented teaching instruction is not going to be challenged by critical thinking.

Moses' Stones with Commandments have been replaced by something called value basis, and this value basis' relationship to ideologies, to our legal freedoms and to party politics, is not letting anybody to scrutinize it. They are also the Commandments in stone, given by a god.
One of the political correctnessES growing in popular mind and attention is to be a vegetarian.

Environmental issues have become the new platform for the movement. Eating meat rises the level of CO2, by transporting the meat and by the mere existence of cows and their digestive mechanisms, to put it mildly.
My wife and I were at the theatre together with our grandchild, and 8-years-old Jonathan. The title of the play was "Grandma, Grandpa and Monster", and the action took place in an attic. The play was written for children from 8 to 12 years old and was very dramatic. Thunderstorms, spooky attic with white linen hanging there, a hysterically afraid mother with a (meat-eating) monster under the table.
The action focused on the mother who was afraid of everything that existed outside the attic, while her daughter was longing to life outside of there. It might seem a bit scary, but much better than locking oneself inside. The message was somewhat different: the one who eats meat eats children!
After the play we asked Jonathan about his opinion. "I think it was a weird play. The title is "Grandma, Grandpa and Monster", but we never saw the Grandpa and the Grandma." No, those were the ones who ate meat, and therefore the child was never allowed to go there and visit them. Jonathan did not get it, and we were very thankful for that.

One should add that Jonathan's father is a vegetarian, but both Jonathan and his mom may eat as much meat as they want without being called child murderers.
But - where there are no problems, one has to create them. As long as it is within the limits of political correctness.

Interesting article, indeed. The reason I took time to translate it and publish it here is simple: finally there is someone who dares to oppose the establishment, if only in a humble article in a daily newspaper. We have to start somewhere, to show that we actually still possess the ability of critical thinking and logic, and are not afraid to question everything. The world thinks Christians are brainwashed and stupid. The world has no idea how incorrect this view is. It is time they knew.

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