That’s strange a liberal state like Illinois censors classic American literature.  

Burn a lot of books? Do ya?

You can’t change history, and you shouldn’t.

But you can explain it. That’s how you learn.

its funny you would call him a nazi. i thought it was really funny when liberals called george bush a nazi, and i find it funny when people call obama a nazi.  because i don’t think that doing that at all minimizes what being a nazi actually stood for, or what it is that they were capable of.   

 Another dimwit liberal blaming others…..
Actually it’s the PC liberals who are censoring material in books. (aka burning books)
Take some responsibility….100-watt bulb in a 25-watt socket.

 Gloves….Today’s uninformed liberals think abortion and healthcare are God-given rights and approved by our founders.
They have to be deprogrammed before they can be taught real history.

This report from Frances Martel, like the clip, like most of the reports on the Internet, is maddeningly insufficient to form any opinion on what really went on here. Here’s the best I found on this story:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/18/teacher-suspended-for-discussing-racial-epithet-in-class/ 

1. This is a white teacher at an inner city school, & a black principal. Was the note being passed around with the song lyrics on it being passed among black students? If so, that would put a different spin on what the teacher was up to. Among other things, it’s hard for me to believe black students needing to be told by a white teacher what the word means or its use connotes. 2. Frances Martel sort of implies the teacher was reading from Mark Twain, the unexpurgated version. That doesn’t fit the Raw Story version. If he just was reading from that, then that would engage school district rules, as to which version was allowed for use. But apparently what he did was just refer in some way – some way as HE understood – to the expurgation. 3. Did this guy have a history of this? We aren’t told. 4. The part of the clip where the teacher & his lawyer are talking is odd: it doesn’t refer to HOW the teacher was exploiting this so-called “teachable moment”. Also, it’s a pretty odd reaction for a teacher to be claiming on the one hand to have undertaken something ‘brave’ like starting a class discussion on the n-word, & then have this over-the-top reaction; you’d expect such a person to be more outraged & determined, not this woosie reaction. 5. The clip refers to a “full hearing” and an “appeal”, presumably conducted by the school board. Obviously those things didn’t take 3 minutes; there must have been testimony, questions, arguments – & the raising of the rule alleged to have been broken. We get none of that here to consider.  

I sum, we don’t know if this guy is bad teacher & a coward who’s trying to invoke his First & Ninth Amendment rights to overcome his having done something stupid, or whether he’s a great teacher & brave one to have tried to do something meaningful & innovative. We just can’t tell. But one thing is clear: he does NOT have First & Ninth Amendment rights protection in the course of his classroom responsibilities. If he knowingly broke a rule, then the district board SHOULD be considering whether or not to fire him.

In a note of serendipity, this guy’s lawsuit is named Brown vs Board of Education.

I don’t know if liberals think any rights are god given, they are state given. I would go out on a limb to say that a lot of liberals don’t think anything is god given. That is possibly why we have so much trouble agreeing on anything.

I stubbed my toe and said it the other day, what does that mean?

This political correctness thing will backfire someday, mark my words.

Political correctness is what prompted the Obama administration to classify the Fort Hood Massacre by Major Nidal Malik Hasan as “workplace violence”

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Hasan was a practicing Muslim who, according to one of his cousins, became more devout in 1998 and 2001.

Hasan attended the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, in 2001, at the same time as Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour, two of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks.

A review of Hasan’s computer and his multiple e-mail accounts has revealed visits to websites espousing radical Islamist ideas.

Once, while presenting what was supposed to be a medical lecture to other psychiatrists, Hasan instead talked about Islam, and stated that non-believers would be sent to hell, decapitated, set on fire, and have burning oil poured down their throats.

According to Associated Press, Hasan’s lecture also “justified suicide bombings.

Hasan has expressed admiration for the teachings of Anwar al-Awlaki, imam at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque between 2000 and 2002.

As Al-Awlaki was under surveillance, Hasan was investigated by the FBI after intelligence agencies intercepted 18 emails between them between December 2008 and June 2009.

In one, Hasan wrote: “I can’t wait to join you” in the afterlife. A military analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, suggested that Hasan was “either offering himself up or had already crossed that line in his own mind.”

Hasan also asked al-Awlaki when jihad is appropriate, and whether it is permissible if innocents are killed in a suicide attack.

Even the terrorist Al-Awlaki alleged that the Obama administration attempted to portray Hasan’s actions as an individual act of violence from an estranged individual, and that it attempted to suppress information to cushion the reaction of the American public.

Al Qaeda formally claimed responsibility for Hasan’s actions.
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The worst that could happen is if someday “Islamic extremists” get their hands on a atomic or nuclear explosive, and kill millions in a single incident. Liberal Americans will understand the difference between “workplace violence” and “Islamic Terrorism”

I love “The Person of No Particular Color of the Narcissus.” I especially dote on the part where he uses GPS satellite technology to defeat the aliens from planet Whitey. I heard there is another version but it probably sucks.

Get over the liberal/conservative label, for Christ sake. Let’s all agree that censoring literature is a bad thing and that anybody doing it, regardless of political persuasion, is to be scorned. How about that?

You must have the wrong page. This is a news story about a Chicago school teacher saying the n word, it has absolutely zero to do with Barack Obama or national security.

I ‘liked” your response on purpose.
When MAN can create life…he can give “rights”
Until then….he can dole out priviledges and he can take them away.
Rights belong to the creator.
Without Him…there are no rights.

Your response should have been directed at Voltman…I was just responding to his dimwit comment.
Perhaps if you got over the “for Christ sake” stuff…I would consider your comment in a more positive way.

I have to disagree with you here. Human Rights, in the form they exist today, are certainly man made and codified through a legislative body such as the UN. They may be largely ineffective at enforcing punishments for those who violate them, but these rights still exist in international law.

FROTH LIKES N WORD TEACHER HAVE POINT.

… at top of head, maybe FR0TH. 

Point of decor, FR0TH – I like the concept – very reminiscent reader-commenter UGG at Talking Points Memo –  & I particularly like your clever drafting of the numerical term for zero as the middle symbol in your name; but try to be more consistent, as you failed to be in the opening word of the text. 

Nazi never came to my mind nor did I used the word.
It’s funny. You’re right!
It came to your mind.

We don’t operate under the auspices of the UN, we operate under the Constitution of the United States which does not grant rights, but rather recognizes that they already exist and prohibits the government from infringing upon them.

Your UN-approved “Human rights” are not rights at all, as they force burdens upon some people to grant gifts to others.

1. This is a white teacher at an inner city school, & a black
principal. Was the note being passed around with the song lyrics on it
being passed among black students? If so, that would put a different
spin on what the teacher was up to. Among other things, it’s hard for me
to believe black students needing to be told by a white teacher what
the word means or its use connotes.

Ah, because you can’t determine what’s proper or improper until you know what color everybody is. Shut ‘yo cracka ass up, foo!

 You need to work on your exclamatory vocabulary.

FROTH NO BELIEVE IN PHOTOSHOP, JESUS SAY NO DISTORT PICTURES. FROTH FIND REAL PICTURE OF FROTH WITH BROWN DROOL FOR FROTH TO POST AS AVATAR.

I wrote my post and after having done so I found out what this phrase really means: “a moderator will judge whether the post that you wrote will appear in this space”.    

 Sockets aren’t measured in watts.  Get a lite.

@PabIo:disqus 

Oddly your comment below doesn’t have a reply option (weird), so I’ll try to do it here. The US is a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, although I believe it does violate some of the articles (especially through the ghastly new defense bill). Referring to articles 21 it seems that people have the right to social security with “the organization and resources of each State.” Is that what you meant about “burdens to grant gifts”?