Anthem ban 'political correctness run wild': Conservative MP

Should Schools be able to:

  • Choose if they Play the Anthem

    Votes: 8 27.6%
  • Always play the Anthem

    Votes: 18 62.1%
  • Never play the Anthem

    Votes: 3 10.3%

  • Total voters
    29

Cannuck

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They're minors, they have no say.

I'm surprised their are actually people in this country that still hold that belief. I thought it disappeared with the old school masters

 

einmensch

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Cannuck the all Canadian -? sounds like a sojourner to me
Petition -sounds more than one family unlike other cutural changes that have been decided by one or two families taking it to court-Lord's Prayer.
 

Zzarchov

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Now here's patriotism! Or is it nationalism...?
YouTube - Tomorrow belongs to me english subtitles karaoke

Technically though, nothing with that behaviour was wrong, it was racial extermination and the desire to remove other people from their nations that was wrong.

I believe the old Axiom goes "Patriotism is when you love your country, Nationalism is when you love your country but hate everyone in it"
 

Cannuck

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Cannuck the all Canadian -? sounds like a sojourner to me
Petition -sounds more than one family unlike other cutural changes that have been decided by one or two families taking it to court-Lord's Prayer.

The Lords prayer should not be recited in school either. Belief systems of any kind should be left to the home.
 

einmensch

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That is why there is a push for some Cannucks to lobby and perhaps by court action to institue tax supported Private Religious Schools. Who is objecting to the Lord's Prayer, Christmas concert, etc in schools? Christians like you? Atheists>>> most don't really find anything objectionable in the Lord's Prayer. Last time I went to church was 1969 and the second last time was in 1956. I have gone to church weddings and funeral related occassions. Point >>When I die, I plan to send the last blessing guy away. You may be excused from Opening excercises. Just as minorities are excused for religious holidays in addition to Christian Holidays. No rush to give up those Christian Hollidays are there?
 

einmensch

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Israel’s national anthem, praising the soul of a Jew, and not of a non-Jew, is obnoxious to Israeli non-Jews, indefensible, and legally unsustainable. No civilized country praises people of one religion over another in its national anthem.
It is no question that Israel’s Jewish identity is just. The problem is, it is legally and politically indefensible in the framework of ethnic-blind democracy. Arab ownership of Israeli land was unthinkable even twenty years ago. in full>>

Israeli left is massively hypocritical. To speak of the Arab equality in a Jewish state is obvious nonsense. Ben Gurion sealed off the entire Arab regions in Israel while sweetly pronouncing their equality. Such situation, however, cannot stand, as Israeli Arabs claim the rights which the Jews allocated them in theory, and the third generation of Israeli Jews indeed allows them such rights because those Jews, brainwashed from the cradle, take their parents’ hypocrisy for truth.

YouTube - Hatikva-The National Anthem of Israel
 

Praxius

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I'm surprised their are actually people in this country that still hold that belief. I thought it disappeared with the old school masters

It's called the law... which is why children are not allowed to vote, drink, smoke, drive a car, or dictate to their teachers what they want to do in the school because it suits them.


^ The above doesn't really apply to this debate. Nobody's talking about some schottish school teacher in England who won't let you write poems in class.
 

einmensch

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Spade -I see what you are saying --some are optional according to Province

There are a few Canada wide:
New Year's Day
Christmas Day
Good Friday or Easter Monday in Quebec

St Victoria Day is Optional in QC,NB,NS PEI and NFLD
 

talloola

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I doubt that. Did anybody even ask the kids if they cared one way or another. No...they are being told that they will be patriotic whether they like it or not.

If kids don't care one way or the other, that is a problem in itself, as not caring
about many things is a total lack of interest or consideration, and reflects on
their upbringing, and is getting more common in our society.
 

L Gilbert

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einmensch mentions the Israeli national anthem with a note of disgust ("Israel’s national anthem, praising the soul of a Jew, and not of a non-Jew, is obnoxious to Israeli non-Jews, indefensible, and legally unsustainable. No civilized country praises people of one religion over another in its national anthem.")

Anyone know the lyrics of the first stanza of Germany's?

Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world,
When, for protection and defence, it always
takes a brotherly stand together.
From the Meuse to the Neman,
From the Adige to the Belt,
|: Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world. :|

I bet there are a few other countries with such foul concepts written into their nat'l anthems, too.
 

Cannuck

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That is why there is a push for some Cannucks to lobby and perhaps by court action to institue tax supported Private Religious Schools.

Nope. Don't believe in tax supported private schools. Don't even believe in private schools period.