Reply #70: So, is it "progressive" to argue that the Holocaust shouldn't be taught [View All]

in history class?

After all, we wouldn't want to 'persecute' the children of Neo-Nazi holocaust deniers, right?

Is it 'progressive' to say that biology and medicine classes need to take into account the beliefs of those who think antibiotics are evil and all illness is a result of demon possession?

Because that, in essence, is what you're arguing here.

And 'not everyone' can afford to do a lot of things. The right wing in this country decided a long time ago that our tax dollars shouldn't have to go towards paying for poor peoples' abortions, even though mine have to go towards Iraq, and a multibillion dollar 'drug war' aimed primarily at locking up millions of nonviolent people who are not otherwise criminals (you want to talk about who is really being 'persecuted' in this country...) ... if Biblical literalists 'cant afford' to homeschool their children and thereby that avoid their exposure to the satanic influences of the ideas contained in that wicked tome known as Scientific American, again, that is most certainly NOT 'persecution'.