Are there other Republican parents at your charter?

[Anonymous]

This is the silliest thread of all time. Politics has become a way to label people as tolerant or not. It's ridiculous. I'm politically agnostic. I voted for Obama 2x. I've been around people at our school who thinks he's the worst person to ever grace the planet. I say nothing because I don't care nor do I agree. Obama (or any politician for that matter) doesn't need me defending him or getting into any debates over the merits of his presidency. You believe what you believe. If you want to vocalize, do it. If people don't agree and argue with you then they are stupid; not stupid liberals or stupid conservatives. They're just stupid.

[Anonymous]

Politics has become shorthand for tolerance because there are people who mask their racism and intolerance with conservative beliefs. I'm not saying all dems are angels and all republicans are evil, but there is no place for anti-gay and anti-woman sentiment, racism, and intolerance. I cannot be friends with someone who does not embrace science. I wouldn't want to befriend someone who thinks that Hispanics and blacks are ruining this country. No thanks. Stay away from our liberal haven.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never really know where parents at my children's school stand politically, except for one mom who is now a SAHM who can't seem to allow a conversation to go by without her reminding me that she used to work for the Bush WH. But I think that's more about her wanting to remind me that she used to have an important job than wanting to advertise her political leanings.

Are you at a hill school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Politics has become shorthand for tolerance because there are people who mask their racism and intolerance with conservative beliefs. I'm not saying all dems are angels and all republicans are evil, but there is no place for anti-gay and anti-woman sentiment, racism, and intolerance. I cannot be friends with someone who does not embrace science. I wouldn't want to befriend someone who thinks that Hispanics and blacks are ruining this country. No thanks. Stay away from our liberal haven.

Amen to that! Move to Virgina please.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand the cognitive dissonance that must go on for someone to not have been intolerant for a belief held in 2008 but now they are completely intolerent for the same belief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Politics has become shorthand for tolerance because there are people who mask their racism and intolerance with conservative beliefs. I'm not saying all dems are angels and all republicans are evil, but there is no place for anti-gay and anti-woman sentiment, racism, and intolerance. I cannot be friends with someone who does not embrace science. I wouldn't want to befriend someone who thinks that Hispanics and blacks are ruining this country. No thanks. Stay away from our liberal haven.

Amen to that! Move to Virgina please.

Or Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the cognitive dissonance that must go on for someone to not have been intolerant for a belief held in 2008 but now they are completely intolerent for the same belief.

Wut?

[Anonymous]

It seems like we have a lot of republicans in our school actually, but they are mostly quite liberal socially. At least none of them admit as much, like PPs. There are also a lot of Christian-urban-hipsters that wouldn't dare admit that "in our home marriage is between a man and a woman" out loud, but I'm sure that's how they roll.

I don't get this one family though, who have made blatantly racist remarks, and who are fervently right wing. What the HELL are they even doing here? I'm trying to imagine picking my kids up and moving to suburban Houston, I'd want to rip my hair out inside 5 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the cognitive dissonance that must go on for someone to not have been intolerant for a belief held in 2008 but now they are completely intolerent for the same belief.

Wut?

He's referring to Obama's changed position. Pubs love to carp on that for some reason.

Pp, I think everyone gets that Obama was never really against gay marriage, just like he's almost certainly an atheist. The ends (best president for gay rights in modern history) justify the means (disingenuous strategy).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like we have a lot of republicans in our school actually, but they are mostly quite liberal socially. At least none of them admit as much, like PPs. There are also a lot of Christian-urban-hipsters that wouldn't dare admit that "in our home marriage is between a man and a woman" out loud, but I'm sure that's how they roll.

I don't get this one family though, who have made blatantly racist remarks, and who are fervently right wing. What the HELL are they even doing here? I'm trying to imagine picking my kids up and moving to suburban Houston, I'd want to rip my hair out inside 5 minutes.

FWIW most Christian hipsters I know strongly support gay marriage. Don't jump to conclusions.

[Anonymous]

Christian hipsters are generally liberal and tolerant, in my experience.

Why does PP think Obama is probably an atheist or that he was always for gay marriage?

I'm totally for gay marriage now but when the idea was first put forth I admit I though, "that's a strange idea." And I am generally a liberal, from deep blue Mass. Just needed exposure and learning to realize it made sense and was unfair not to allow it. Love is love...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like we have a lot of republicans in our school actually, but they are mostly quite liberal socially. At least none of them admit as much, like PPs. There are also a lot of Christian-urban-hipsters that wouldn't dare admit that "in our home marriage is between a man and a woman" out loud, but I'm sure that's how they roll.

I don't get this one family though, who have made blatantly racist remarks, and who are fervently right wing. What the HELL are they even doing here? I'm trying to imagine picking my kids up and moving to suburban Houston, I'd want to rip my hair out inside 5 minutes.

FWIW most Christian hipsters I know strongly support gay marriage. Don't jump to conclusions.

Every time I've been around Christians and they get comfortable, I always get to hear nice intolerant remarks at some point. FWIW.

[Anonymous]

What's a Christian hipster? Sounds like an undergarment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's a Christian hipster? Sounds like an undergarment. [/quote

Not just any undergarment... One that brings you closer to Jesus in a modest way.

[Anonymous]

http://hipsterchristianity.com/anatomy.php?sceneNum=2

The kind at our school I'd say fit into the "Frugal Collegians" category but have graduated to become parents of 4 in a 1300 sq. foot row house and they are immeasurably proud they didn't retreat back to Kansas with their brood, but they didn't go to their IB school mind you.