Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice. He symbolized the kind of tyrants who oppose justice.
I would not disagree with that belief. The operative word has to be "WAS". When he came out of the mountains following the Batista overthrow, there was dancing in the streets of Cuba. Shortly thereafter, all professional people were in a dead run out of Cuba to avoid Castro imprisonment on their way to Miami. Cuba became the partner of USSR. Freedom by the working man never became the reality that was sold to them in effort to depose Batista. Rest of Cuba / US relationship is history of Fidel as a leader.
Do you know who Jill Stein is? She was the Green Party presidential candidate which is a different political party from Republicans or Democrats.
"We would like to send our condolences to the people of Germany on the passing of your beloved leader, Adolf Hitler. He was a man of great vision who united his country for a common goal."
We have freedom of speech in this country and if that's a message that you wanted to communicate then no one would stop you. Condolence messages are best sent soon after someone dies though.
Who's saying Carter doesn't have a right to send whatever message he wants? The question is whether the message is appropriate or not. It is clearly inappropriate. Castro brutalized his own people. Carter celebrates his life. It's interesting you have no problem celebrating Castro's life...or Hitler's evidently.
You're whining, that's who. I could give two shits if Jimmy Carter sent that message. That's "my position". I hope that you can recover from the news of Carter's message.
The only "argument" that I made was in favor of free speech. Since you don't support free speech then I understand why you are being critical of the former president. I continue to not care that he sent the message.
No, you didn't argue initially for free speech. You argued mentioning Castro's human rights abuses was not appropriate in Carter's condolences. When I used an analogy to demonstration how preposterous it is to send condolences for a brutal dictator, you then made an argument about free speech in this country (which is ironic since Castro terminated free speech in Cuba). When I pointed out the argument has nothing to do with free speech but the propriety of sending condolences for a brutal dictator you turned to insults. Now you say I'm against free speech. Clearly you are confused. One can be critical of another's speech without believing the other has no right to speak. Having a right to free speech does not mean one is free from criticism concerning what one says.
It's the moral equivalency. Many believe there is basically no difference between the American treatment of protected classes and Castro's treatment of political dissidents. I'm not surprised your son believes this. The schools heavily promote this view.
Totally disagree with your schools comment as it isn't true throughout. I'm sick and tired or generalizations such as this.
Well, since I have many students from many different schools and they seem to consistently have this point-of-view, and since public schools have limited options for texts, and since most opt for Common Core materials I can say that's what's being taught.
It isn' t. They are getting crap fed to them off the internet. Same as white supremists and all other radical groups. The propaganda is not in public schools.
Those who have not read current days text books simply have no way in hell of knowing what is being taught in public schools. A good bit of it is exactly 180 from what was taught in our time. I guess you just need to research to determine which era is wrong. It appears to be that current teaching openly inserts very liberal beliefs. The students have to read and accept what is in current print to pass the course. Don't blame the students for following what adults are approving to be in texts.
Yes, you act like you won some argument when there was no argument but keep congratulating yourself as it will probably be the highlight of your day.
