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PC run amok - How the Toronto School Board Sterilized Hallowe'en (pg. 2)
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by kaniz
Instead of banning Halloween and calling it "Black and Orange day", why not celebrate it - but also teach the kids the history and roots of it? Explain how other cultures celebrate it, ie: Day of the Dead in Mexico
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or better yet just let the damn kids have some fun! |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Not to mention Irish Catholics... I mean why do the protestants get a day in honour of them (albeit shared with the blacks)... when's green day? |
st patricks..
BAN THAT TOO! Leprichans are offensive to short irish people! |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Intangible
Sorry...
I meant Halloween TODAY has nothing to do with religion or death
Most kids have no idea what its roots are. It is just a fun event where you get to dress up and get candy.
Valentine's Day has a religious background as well but now has been completely taken over by commercialism. I really do not see a difference.
Halloween cant offend different religions anymore than the commericalization of Christmas offends some Christains. |
It's kind of nuts how some people can't reconcile that while many of these celebrations started as religious festivals they also taken on a wholly secular aspect. Tomorrow I will celebrate the secular festival of Halloween by giving out candy to neighbourhood children and Saturday I will celebrate the religious holiday of All Saints Day by attending mass. On December 25th at 00:00 I will celebrate the birth of Jesus and then from 8am or so on I will celebrate the secular festival of Christmas. |
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| Intangible |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
or better yet just let the damn kids have some fun! |
+1! :) |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
st patricks..
BAN THAT TOO! Leprichans are offensive to short irish people! |
Plus the Irish are offensive to Scotsmen! |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Plus the Irish are offensive to Scotsmen! |
And scots are just plain offensive! LOL |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
And scots are just plain offensive! LOL |
well played. |
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| kaniz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
or better yet just let the damn kids have some fun! |
Seeing how it is school - I don't see whats so wrong about putting some education in with that fun.
Didn't say stop them from dressing up / handing out candy / having Halloween parties on Halloween - but nothing wrong with working some education about it in the week or two leading up to it. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by kaniz
Seeing how it is school - I don't see whats so wrong about putting some education in with that fun.
Didn't say stop them from dressing up / handing out candy / having Halloween parties on Halloween - but nothing wrong with working some education about it in the week or two leading up to it. |
Depends on the grade. For example under grade 5 it should be just about fun. After that is when you can start the ISP projects on the topic. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
They can't call it black and orange day... it would be offensive to blacks, and to russians displeased with the old orange revolution, now would it? |
orange? wasn't it always red
Ukies had an Orange revolution not so long ago |
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| VERTiG0 |
| If somebody is offended by Halloween in schools, they should be shot in the head for being a dip |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
This is a good point... multi-culturalism started off as being the embracing and celebrating of all the best from the cultures represented in the Canadian Mosaic; however, it somehow changed into celebrating the newly arrived cultures and ostracizing the pre-existing culture. What's really annoying about it all is that this is being done not because people of minority communities are offended but because people of the majority community fear that they may be offended. |
Ya. Brutal. Being PC has gone WAY WAY WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to far in this country.
The Xmas PC bull drives me NUTS... and I never thought that it would somehow be applied to halloween too. SO ridiculous. Im actually in disbelief.
Could you imagine if such a thing were to be applied to a jewish or other cultural day thatd be established and practice in a school? There'd be a huge uproar!
And, furthermore, the article states that they fear the "H" word might be as offensive to certain groups, like "Christmas" is...
Are you f*cking kidding me!!?? If "Christmas" is offensive to someone of another religion then there's his or her first problem -- GET OVER YOURSELF!
"Hanukah" isnt offensive to me even though i dont practice it ... so why the hell would "Christmas" be offensive to someone who doesnt celebrate it??!!
Seriously! Brutal! |
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