PC gone mad

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Australian 17 Aug 2017

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has called for education bureaucrats who tried to sneak the controversial Safe Schools program back onto the NSW curriculum to be sacked.

A guide on “sexuality and sexual health education” for Years 1-10 was posted on the NSW Education Standards Authority website on Friday, despite the NSW government banning Safe Schools.

The news comes as a school on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has been slammed for a play which featured Year Six students dressing up as nuns and abusing Aboriginal Children.

Parents of students at Forestville Public School have slammed the play as “bloody disgraceful”.

The school defended the performance to News Corp as depicting “the truth about our treatment of the Stolen Generation”.

Mr Dutton said the reinstalment of Safe Schools was the latest example of “political correctness gone mad”.

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This is disgraceful 

Here we have as in so many instances civil servants acting against the will of the people as  expressed through their elected reps . 

Just like the ABC . Or The Human Rights Commission etc 

i'm surprised that you are on the side of the indigenous peoples.  good on you brocky.

'The news comes as a school on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has been slammed for a play which featured Year Six students dressing up as nuns and abusing Aboriginal Children.'

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Was this play a take on FACT,  as this IS what took place

A law moving its way through the state’s legislature would effectively criminalize the ‘misgendering’ of certain trans citizens. California may see itself as a leader on criminal-justice reform, but it is on its way to creating a whole new class of criminals: citizens who use “him” to refer to a man and “her” for a woman. 

 

The “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Resident’s Bill of Rights” has already been passed by California’s state senate and unanimously recommended by its state assembly’s judiciary committee. It would impose left-wing dogma by force of law if it gets much further. 

 

For now it is limited to nursing homes and intermediate-care facilities, but there is no reason for it to stop there. According to First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh, it is “pretty unlikely that, if this law is enacted, such prohibitions would be limited just to this [nursing home] scenario.” 

 

The focus on nursing homes, one suspects, was chosen not because there is an epidemic of elderly transgender people being “misgendered” by their caretakers, but simply because the elderly make for a particularly sympathetic test case. However, our sympathy should also extend to the caretakers. If one of their residents wants to be called “ze” and “zir” — or really anything else, according to the law — they had better think twice before refusing. While New York City threatens all employers and landlords with large fines for refusing to use an individual’s preferred pronouns, California’s politicians are going further — they want jail time for dissenters.

 

If the law passes, misgendering a transgender nursing-home resident could result in a fine of up to $1,000 and a year in prison. It also requires nursing homes to allow residents to enter the bathrooms and showers of their chosen gender. Grandma, it seems, will not be allowed the common courtesy of a women-only bathroom. California will no longer tolerate her “discrimination,” if the Left gets its way.

 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450806/california-law-threatens-jail-time-dissenters-transgender-dogma?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Week%20in%20Review%202017-08-27&utm_term=VDHM

 

Gone With Wind 


A theater in Memphis has withdrawn it. A war against the iconic film may have already begun.

Asked how she could debase herself to the level of playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel replied, “I’d rather play the maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.” Now McDaniel’s iconic performance, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only black winner in that category until 1990, stands under threat of being erased from the cultural memory.

A Memphis theater that screens Gone with the Wind annually announced that it is withdrawing it from future showings. At this moment that decision may look like a trivial detail from the silly-season panic attached to all art works with historically uncomfortable connotations, but I’ll wager it’s just the beginning of what figures to be a devastating war on this film. I expect Gone with the Wind will disappear from sight within a few years.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450942/gone-with-the-wind-slavery-hattie-mcdaniel-memphis-theater-time-warner-turner-entertainment?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202017-08-30&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

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