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In relation to some of these posts, when i was at my hopsital today there was a van/bus with "muslim association for parents" or something similar.

How is this different from "White Only" signs Back in the day?
 
censorship of private news organizations,


I am all over that... stinking Murdoch and his fascist cronies!
Here in the UK we have the BEST (yes I said it) TV on the planet. The BBC is without a doubt the most unbiased news reporting I have seen, all for the license fee of £145 a year. Yet Cameron's Tory boy, over privileged, dough faced 'Bullingdon Club' cronies want to abolish it in favour of free enterprise... FREE FREAKIN ENTERPRISE!
SKY is like £25+ a month for a pile of advertising riddled crap...

In relation to some of these posts, when i was at my hopsital today there was a van/bus with "muslim association for parents" or something similar.

How is this different from "White Only" signs Back in the day?

Sorry... I'm not actually getting that one? Surely it's like a PTA with Muslim values...? I doubt they would stone you or not let you on for being a christian or some other such-nonsense.
 
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Sorry... I'm not actually getting that one? Surely it's like a PTA with Muslim values...? I doubt they would stone you or not let you on for being a christian or some other such-nonsense.

I bet you'd have to be muslim to be allowed in, otherwise it wouldn't say 'muslim' on the side of it, so if you weren't you'd be discriminated against.

I don't know really it's just my guess, and my first thought upon seeing it was if it said "Catholic association for parents" it wouldn't be allowed.
 
Why wouldn't it be allowed? Often times religious organizations have services to help their members in need. Could simply be a charter bus for their organization to help shuttle their members to and from the hospital. Don't see anything wrong with that. If it was a city or public bus that would be one thing...but this sounds like something that that particular organization probably owns. My Catholic Church has shuttle vans that take elderly patients to and from doctor appoints and to run errands.
 
I am all over that... stinking Murdoch and his fascist cronies!
Here in the UK we have the BEST (yes I said it) TV on the planet. The BBC is without a doubt the most unbiased news reporting I have seen, all for the license fee of £145 a year. Yet Cameron's Tory boy, over privileged, dough faced 'Bullingdon Club' cronies want to abolish it in favour of free enterprise... FREE FREAKIN ENTERPRISE!
SKY is like £25+ a month for a pile of advertising riddled crap...

National Public Radio in the U.S. has the best coverage of any news outlet in the country. It has no need whatsoever to make money so it's free to indulge itself.

That doesn't change the fact that a government controlled media is asinine if you give a damn about freedom of the press.
 
And when I say 'best' I mean in terms of writing quality and depth of storytelling. I would no sooner call NPR objective than I would call FOX or CNN objective. Selectivity is unavoidable in reporting, and what the news does share and how it chooses to prioritize information is far more important than how it flatters the intellectual sensibilities of it's listeners/viewers.

Journalism as a discipline has gone far south of what it was in the early days of commercial news. The concept of objectivity has been abandoned in academia and the effects on how news is reported are blatant. I doubt a socialist England would even be conscious of how slanted the BBC is. I know American socialists are convinced that NPR gives them an unvarnished truth.

The advantage of an outlet such as FOX News is that their values are pretty transparent and for anyone remotely concerned with the encroaching statist usurpations of the American government, the point of view they choose to represent is invaluable. The quality of their programming is embarassingly low, but without them the American news would be a monolith of collectivist spoonfeeding.
 
Sorry... I'm not actually getting that one? Surely it's like a PTA with Muslim values...? I doubt they would stone you or not let you on for being a christian or some other such-nonsense.

I bet you'd have to be muslim to be allowed in, otherwise it wouldn't say 'muslim' on the side of it, so if you weren't you'd be discriminated against.

I don't know really it's just my guess, and my first thought upon seeing it was if it said "Catholic association for parents" it wouldn't be allowed.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. :dunno
Muslims parents would have issues unique to them that they want to address for their children, so why not have a Muslim only parent association?
 
I agree. It's not like the exclusionary feature is race. Muslim and Catholic are essentially ways of thinking and living. They are personal choices and they do define people in terms of an important difference. Race is meaningless, and attempting to give it significance reveals an ugly psychological deficiency.

People are certainly free to define themselves by their physical breeding. I don't think that racism should be illegal, any more than I think that relligion should be illegal. Telling people how to think and act is much uglier than believing that one's biological make-up confers any kind of value on one's person.
 
In relation to some of these posts, when i was at my hopsital today there was a van/bus with "muslim association for parents" or something similar.

How is this different from "White Only" signs Back in the day?

Are you sure it didn't say "Muslin Association for Parents"? This group provides an invaluable service to those parents who eschew polyester fabrics for their infant children.
 
I just happened upon this (as y'do). In this country you can get charged with pedophilia for possessing a cartoon of Bart and Lisa going at it. I wonder how the law would view a grown man allowing his daughter to fondle his woollen tackle?

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is that the aussie version of snuggie?

It's one of a photographic portrait series by London-based Anna Maltz. It's art, see, so it must be ok to have a young girl cup the head of her dad's tool while he looks on with a goofy grin. If I find anything more disturbing than the image itself, it's that a large portion of the commentary surrounding it - whether in reviews of the exhibition, or on forums and blogs - makes this out to be hilarious. Now whether the image captures an unguarded moment and doesn't show the true context of what was happening - ie the dad's grin was perhaps a reaction to an awkward, nervous moment, and was accompanied by his removing the daughter's hand with a gentle caution against touching a grown man's genitals (or the crocheted version thereof) - the fact remains that the photographer selected this image for exhibition and subsequent publication on the internet, and the family okayed it.

I reckon I'm a pretty open-minded kind of guy. I'm one of those who reckons that people can pretty much do as they please so long as it doesn't harm anyone else. Wanna go nude with your family on a naturist beach? No problem! Snort cocaine off a stripper's tits? Go for it, man. Dress your poodle up in your dead husband's clothes and record karaoke duets on youtube? Good luck to ya! But let's all put on nudie suits and giggle while our seven year old daughter fondles dad's woolly knob? That's not cool in my book.
 
I tried reading Rousseau in my final year of high school but was roundly defeated. I found his writing so dense at that time in my life that I threw in the towel. Now you mention it I'm ashamed that as an educator, I haven't bothered to return to it. Are you mentioning Rousseau for his romantic notion of the child and how they experience and learn about the world around them?
 
Sorta. More that he considered imposing reason upon the naive psyche as an affront to nature and that the proper way to raise a human to reach their true potential was to encourage lack of emotional inhibitions, and standards of behavior in general. Emile was basically his philosophy of education.

'Rousseauean ideal' was the first thing that jumped into my head when I saw that picture.
 
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