{"id":721,"date":"2008-10-19T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2008-10-19T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:42:54","slug":"the-right-to-indoctrinate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-right-to-indoctrinate\/","title":{"rendered":"The right to indoctrinate"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the National Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Rights complaint filed in B. C. over cancelled course.<\/strong>\"\"<\/p>\n

VANCOUVER – Two men responsible for creating a new social justice course for a B. C. high school have filed a human-rights complaint against the Abbotsford school district for its refusal to offer the course this year.<\/p>\n

Murray and Peter Corren filed the complaint with the B. C. Human Rights Tribunal, alleging that the decision not to offer Social Justice 12 in W. J. Mouat Secondary School amounts to discrimination against students — especially those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered.<\/p>\n

In a statement released yesterday, the Correns say the district refused to offer the course, even though more than 90 students had signed up, because some parents had complained about content dealing with sexual orientation, gender identity, homophobia and heterosexism.<\/p>\n

The Correns, one of the first gay couples in Canada to marry, almost single-handedly forced the topics of sexual orientation, gender identity and same-sex families into schools when they launched a B. C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint against the provincial government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may agree or not with the teaching of this course on ‘social justice’; but how could a school district’s decision not to teach it possibly be a violation of anyone\u2019s human rights? No-one is advocating censoring the material in the course; there is no frenzied mob gathering to burn copies of it; it is even available on the Internet<\/a> for perusal by incurable insomniacs who may be looking for an untried soporific.<\/p>\n

It appears to me to be a pile of tendentious tripe, but that\u2019s just me. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Students should be able to identify and define a range of concepts and terms of social justice:<\/p>\n

e.g., ableism, ageism, anthropocentrism, colonization, conservative, consumerism, cultural imperialism, democratization, dignity, discrimination, diversity, economic imperialism, economic liberalization, empowerment, equality, equity, extremism, fairness, feminism, fundamentalism, genocide, globalization, hate crime, hegemony, heterosexism, homophobia, human rights, humanism, humility, inclusion, marginalization, misogyny, oppression, peace, persecution, power, prejudice, privilege, racism, radical, sexism, speciesism, stereotyping, systemic, transformational leadership, truth, value, worth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These words alone convey a cornucopia of codswallop; read the whole thing to judge for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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