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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear OP, I hope you will read my comment. I think you mean well and are trying to save kid some embarrassment in present day climate. However, what you are actually proposing is censoring a preschooler's assignment. Telling the kid that there is a right assignment and the unacceptable assignment. What kind of societies control kids' homework and thought process? Isn't that exactly what you are against when protest against police violence? Isn't that exactly what much of the fight between democrats and Trump supporters is about? I think leader is trying to institute a dictatorships, and his supporters think that democrats are trying to institute dictatorships. 
If we start telling our kids that you can only think this way when they are in preschool, what are we doing exactly?[/quote]

+1.  This is my thought process exactly.  I believe this problem is much more insidious and dangerous than anything else at this point in time.  Has anyone stopped to consider the long term consequences of creating a society that only allows one form of thought or speech?       The fact that someone is "offended" (someone is always offended or triggered it seems) does not constitute, in my mind, the right to ban that thought or speech.  In fact, I would argue that being able to discuss or think about opposite points of view is what creates a stronger country, a stronger people, and stronger beliefs.  I don't want to live in a country where everyone is the same and "someone else" is deciding what is ok, in any area.     Because I'm smart enough to know that at some point, that "someone" may decide something I don't agree with.  This is what living in a free country looks like.  People need to chill out and stop feeling like the world guarantees them a place where they never see or hear anything with which they disagree.

I have been changed by reading and learning from people that have completely opposite viewpoints.  I kept an open mind, read, learned, and formed new ideas.

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