Media Matters has the transcript: CARL HIGBIE (HOST): There’s some major updates on the efforts to Islam-ify America — actually, stopping it. Great state of Connecticut, this is just insane…
I’m atheist so to me, baptism or prayer is about as serious as someone thinking Jedi or Sith were real; annoying and disrespectful but we’ll live.
But to someone of an opposing faith, forcing someone through that could be blasphemous. It’s at best disrespectful, but at worse it might make them feel violated, against God, ostracized from their social circles, or what have you.
Ultimately, I feel it carries greater weight for people who believe in something, same as ripping off a hijab or forcing them to say a prayer to another God.
I don’t think in that case the baptism is the pretext, just a step in that genocidal process. E.g. it wasn’t the baptisms that caused the Spanish to torture native Californian peoples.
I think we might be having a bit of miscommunication. By ‘pretext’ I don’t mean the root cause of the action, I mean the excuse given to justify the action.
Hate crimes are exactly what he is aiming for, or at least making it a real possibility in people’s minds that random teachers might commit hate crimes in the name of religion. This is just another attack on public schools. It’s meant to weaken people’s trust in teachers just that much more. And it is not aimed at just Muslims either. I suspect that most everyone who read this immediately began to worry that this might really happen given the current state of the world. But now you are admitting to yourself that there are plenty of religious nutters out there and teaching positions. And of course you have to realize that a lot of teachers are not Christian. What in the world might be non-christians do in retaliation? Especially when you take into account that insert non-Christian belief here is so much more violent than Christians?
These people want to kill public schools, force everyone into private, for profit, secular schools. Places where they can teach whatever the fuck they want by claiming that it is part of their religion.
It’s just one amongst thousands of other attacks on public schools, each meant to chip away and erode our faith in public systems.
Well, that’s probably a hate crime.
I’m atheist so to me, baptism or prayer is about as serious as someone thinking Jedi or Sith were real; annoying and disrespectful but we’ll live.
But to someone of an opposing faith, forcing someone through that could be blasphemous. It’s at best disrespectful, but at worse it might make them feel violated, against God, ostracized from their social circles, or what have you.
Ultimately, I feel it carries greater weight for people who believe in something, same as ripping off a hijab or forcing them to say a prayer to another God.
That’s not the worst case. The worst case is Christians using the baptism as a pretext to forcibly take the children away from their parents.
I don’t think in that case the baptism is the pretext, just a step in that genocidal process. E.g. it wasn’t the baptisms that caused the Spanish to torture native Californian peoples.
I think we might be having a bit of miscommunication. By ‘pretext’ I don’t mean the root cause of the action, I mean the excuse given to justify the action.
Hate crimes are exactly what he is aiming for, or at least making it a real possibility in people’s minds that random teachers might commit hate crimes in the name of religion. This is just another attack on public schools. It’s meant to weaken people’s trust in teachers just that much more. And it is not aimed at just Muslims either. I suspect that most everyone who read this immediately began to worry that this might really happen given the current state of the world. But now you are admitting to yourself that there are plenty of religious nutters out there and teaching positions. And of course you have to realize that a lot of teachers are not Christian. What in the world might be non-christians do in retaliation? Especially when you take into account that
insert non-Christian belief hereis so much more violent than Christians?These people want to kill public schools, force everyone into private, for profit, secular schools. Places where they can teach whatever the fuck they want by claiming that it is part of their religion. It’s just one amongst thousands of other attacks on public schools, each meant to chip away and erode our faith in public systems.