I fail to see how my being under the age of 25 and a decade your junior has an impact here.
Because nine times out of ten a person's perception of issues changes once they reach a certain point in their adult years. Usually it happens when a person gets married or becomes a parent. Sometimes it takes until a person is around thirty years of age. All I can say is that the opinions you have now are highly likely to change and you will look back at twenty and think "my, my, how silly I was". Just as I will do the same looking back at twenty-nine when I am nearing forty.
I compared the Japanese internment camps with the Nazi concentration camps because in both cases a government forcibly confined an ethnic group. This isn't a "nifty" way to express dislike. I quite resent your implication that I am somehow incapable of expressing an honest opinion.
I did not mean to imply that. I'm sorry that's how it came across. I'm one hundred percent certain you are being honest and sincere about how you feel. I'm only stating that it's highly likely that once you are looking at thirty and beyond, you're likely to have a substantial difference in your views than you do right now. That's not an insult. It's simply a reality of life.
I don't believe I said that.
You stated we were "emulating the Nazis". Perhaps if the statement had been more specific, like "we were emulating the Nazis by segregating a particular race into a camp" it wouldn't have been assumed you meant we were emulating the holocaust.
I know. I never said otherwise.
Fair enough. I assumed that by using the broad phrase "emulating Nazis" that you weren't referring to an isolated aspect of the Nazi regime.
You are drawing a generalization about all teachers, and not everything they say in the classroom is necessarily personal opinion.
Not all teachers. Perhaps not even most. The fact remains there are teachers in our system who are subliminally teaching children to question authority, hate the government and view America as some evil empire.
Why? Considering America was founded on an idea of personal liberty and freedom, what is your basis for excluding them? The American ideal of self-determination logically includes the right to adopt and change our underlying political ideology.
Because establishing a Communistic system would be the exact opposite of embracing liberty. Communism, in theory, isn't such a terrible thing. Communism, in practice, is a disaster. The problem is that the tenets of Communism, as a whole, are an oxymoron.
Well, Cuba strangely hasn't folded yet despite our embargo on them, so I'd say they are doing fairly well all things considered.
How would we know how things are going in Cuba? They have a strong military presence to protect their interests. How often do we hear about how things are going with their citizens? I'd think if life in Cuba was so great no one would ever be willing to float toward Miami on a door.
And considering how China is doing... Well, if we determine political ideology merely by which country is most successful in the world today, I would advise becoming Communist in a heartbeat.
How much of our debt do they own again? $772 billion?
That is why China is successful - because of the consumerism of Western culture. We are beholden to China because of our consumerism, not because they are inherently successful. Let's not forget that they have a strong labor force because they engage in slave and child labor, something we abhor in American society. They also have media censorship, there is no freedom of religion, they have the one-child policy, and up until the 1990s homosexuality was illegal. It doesn't sound like China is an ideal country for those who espouse liberal views. It should also be noted that China is slowly moving away from their Communist system and moving toward Capitalism.