re: D. C. 6th grade homework assignment. Let's hear the responses.

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I'm not surprised. 10 years from now that same teacher will have a comparison of the greatness of Obama and Abraham Lincoln.

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Both fascists, that's for sure. But Lincoln was worse.

Seriously unreal. Teacher should absolutely be fired.

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You asked what the difference is

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I did? Where did I ask that? I asked which was more dangerous. In asking that I didn't state which one I thought was more dangerous, and later I actually agreed with someone that said the teacher example isn't really more dangerous, but is more wrong.

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Both fascists, that's for sure. But Lincoln was worse.

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Lincoln was a Mercantilist and Obama is a Fascists. Slight difference.

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I thought Hitler used an attack on German soil as a justification to go to war against people who had nothing to do with said attack. Is that not true?

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No, that is not true. Only a true idiot would break it down that simplistic. Good troll though.

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 Throw in they're delivered in such one-sidelined views and the classroom has been somewhat tainted. 

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I majored in poli sci and with the exception of two professors all others were hard lefties. Our books and required readings,take home articles,etc. everything was from a lib-prog perspective.

I was one of the only right leaning females in most classes and had to work harder to find evidence to support my beliefs while lib-prog students got some sort of weird automatic acceptance of whatever lefty idea they repeated. I argued with my professors constantly.

I laughed right out loud when one professor stated that the world would be a much kinder,safer,and rational place if more women were in positions of authority. I told him I thought that was sexist and he told me I was simply too androcentric to accept that a world ran by women would actually be a better world. To him this was just a matter of fact.
Another professor (like many others I'm sure) insisted that communism was good and that Americans were too greedy and materialistic to appreciate it .

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Among the many fascist things Lincoln did, he jailed newspaper publishers/editors in the North who dissented with the Union.

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I will concede that point.

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Okay, so it's safe to assume that during your schooling, anytime a teacher shared their personal beliefs on a topic, you adopted that same position? I can think of many examples from my schooling where a teacher injected his/her personal beliefs into a lesson, but I never felt forced to adopt those same beliefs.

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At 11 and 12 years old? Yes.

frick, you are stupid.

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For the record, I don't think one is any more dangerous than the other. I was just posing a question as many seem outraged over this, yet barely bat an eye when Obama is constantly compared to Hitler by many right-wing radio hosts and columnists.

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So 6th grade teachers =\= radio hosts & columnists?

That's just willfully ignorant. There is no way you have the aptitude to log on TD and not see the difference.

One is painfully more dangerous than the other

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That is the gist of your defense here, correct?

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Defense of what? I'm just trying to understand why this instance(which I agree is a stupid teaching lesson) is more cause for outrage than the numerous Obama/Hitler comparisons. And I acknowledged in an earlier post that "more dangerous" was a poor way to word it, and agreed the teaching lesson was more wrong than the radio host example I presented. In my eyes, both are wrong and stupid, yet only one seems to garner outrage here. Just trying to understand why that is.