> [flagged]
Fitting, I suppose, that this very discussion has now been censored.
Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
21–30 of 30 posts
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#22Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#23The U.S. political culture of 2-parties is the root cause of this. One party believes something so the other party disagrees as if by requirement. That concept is now society. Persons opposing political ideas make it impossible to agree.
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#24Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#25Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country. Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc. It seems to be one of the weaknesses of American democracy, that a minority can enforce their will on a majority by sparking some sort of moral outrage that most voters don't actually share. Not sure what exactly causes it. If it's the electoral college system, the senator sy…
> I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc.
Honestly the more I see about US history, it just feels like it’s always been like this.
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#26> [flagged] Fitting, I suppose, that this very discussion has now been censored.
You’re only allowed to post culture war threads on HN if they support the user bases existing biases.
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#27> On Thursday, Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, moved to expand a law that banned public schools from teaching sexual education and gender identity. This is the most important paragraph in the article imo. Later it mentions Queen Victoria was also shocked in 1857 and ordered the statue's private parts to be covered with a leaf. Many of these ridiculous Americans scandals are not too shocking if you consider some are…
What unamerican souls currently look to a foreign sovereign over a century ago for direction? Wait, that's only a strawman, right?
Some Asian countries follow the blueprint of early 20th century's Western countries. Quick transformation from an agricultural to an industrial economy, secularization, etc.
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#28Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country. Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc. It seems to be one of the weaknesses of American democracy, that a minority can enforce their will on a majority by sparking some sort of moral outrage that most voters don't actually share. Not sure what exactly causes it. If it's the electoral college system, the senator sy…
[flagged]
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc. It seems to be one of the weaknesses of American democracy, that a minority can enforce their will on a majority by sparking some sort of moral outrage that most voters don't actually share. Not sure what exactly causes it. If it's the electoral college system, the senator sy…
I think the two party system causes a lot of problems like this. Over time, a certain party has drifted towards an extreme that if the same happened in a European multiparty democracy, this party would have been replaced by one of the many similar, but sane parties.
Doubt so. Many of my Asian collegues aghast seeing Euro zone commiting economic suicide. Without Putin cheap energy, Russo-Indo-Sino-African huge market, plus extreme competitions from Chinese+Indian, Euro will not be prosperous. There was one centuries old company in Germany collapse bankrupt because of the support of Ukraine causing economic downturn. All my colleagues and friends in high places private side are finalizing retrenchment and liiquidation for coming quarters. Everyone of then blame it on stupid government policies of supporting Ukraine. Euro political parties arent that independent from controls of Dems and Rep in USA. As sanity, if you are having Asian views, none would use the wording sane to describe any of Euro parties.
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Simpsons were joking on exactly this censorship happening 30 years ago, so I don't think it's caused by social media.
This kind of censorship feels very (US-)american to much of the rest of the world. As someone who grew up in a catholic Hinterland, I am pretty sure the roots of the whole prudery come from organized religion. Injecting people with shameful feelings about their most private (and most natural) parts of their lives is truly powerful. If you get the followers of your religion to see sexuality and nudity as something dee…
Your argument would be valid if catholicism or christianity in general would either grow or remain the same througout the western masses, which is not true. The only places in the world where christianity is growing is asia (most noticeably) and probably africa but there's less data for that.
You're right in saying this is mostly common to the american society(which itself propagated to the rest of the world), but I'm doubtful about the implied cause of organized religion. At least in europe this has not been the case for what, a century?