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yawarakaijin
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:29 am Post subject: How to eliminate extremists... |
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STOP CONTRIBUTING to their ridiculous threads!
In real life extremists need to be confronted.
On Daves ESL I propose they should simply be ignored. Who is the bigger moron? The guy spouting on and on about the danger of THE MUSLIMS or the person wasting his/her time trying to debate them after its painfully obvious that nothing you say is going to cure them of their narrow, simplistic and often hateful views?
When the debate is limited to a discussion board I often feel like responding to hate/racism gives power to those spouting their filth.
Let them become the self gratifying individuals who get off spewing their garbage to each other on a message board without any opposition and they are more effectively outed as the bigots they are.
You debate a person with opposing ideas but who is willing to listen to you. You ignore the morons who are intellectualy incapable of holding more than world view at any one time.
By no means am I advocating a limiting of debate. If people want to continue on with meaningless tit for tat posts and paste jobs as if there were some scorecard that is going to finally tabulate a winner, continue on.
All I can say is thank god some of you are stuck teaching English in Korea rather than in any real position of power.
I wonder how long it would be tolerated if I were to write post after post after post on how JEWS/BLACKS/AMERICANS were the real threat to the world. I imagine I would quickly be labelled a nutter and ignored. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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Teaching isn't an important job? Bosh!
First of all, because it is the most important job in society.
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Teaching: the most important job in society
Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:00:00
GTC Chief Executive Carol Adams was guest speaker today at the North London Consortium Graduates' Celebration Event. The text of her speech follows:
"It's a great pleasure to be here to share in your celebration of your achievement. Thank you so much for inviting me. It's also good to be back in Haringey where I once worked and lived.
I am delighted that you have all chosen to be teachers and I would like to emphasise my warmest admiration and appreciation for the North London consortium schools, the HEI training providers and the LEAs, for working in partnership to make it possible for you to find an appropriate route into teaching.
First of all, because it is the most important job in society.
As teachers, you will be the guardians of our future society. Through your daily interaction with individual students, you are the key agents who can unlock the doors to knowledge and inspire the love of learning that all young people need in order to lead fulfilled lives as future citizens of our society. Nothing can be more important than that relationship which can transform a young person without hope and without motivation into a learner. And as a teacher, you can make that happen. You can 'switch on the light' for young people, including those who may be troubled and may be finding life a struggle.
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yawarakaijin
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| If my post was taken as a shot at teachers it wasnt meant to be. I would hope the point that I was trying to make is understood. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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So yawarakaijin, you have no opinion on the muslim killing of 80 million hindus in India? How noble of you to withold judgement. Truly the right thing to do.
the only people who get ignored are those who have no opinions |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Junior wrote: |
So yawarakaijin, you have no opinion on the muslim killing of 80 million hindus in India? How noble of you to withold judgement. Truly the right thing to do.
the only people who get ignored are those who have no opinions |
What!! When was this?? |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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At times these threads go off the rails into nasty language and insults, but sometimes I learn things too, and it keeps my language skills from deteriorating while I'm here. To me that's not an unprofessional thing. Some people here know a lot; in every good cereal there will be a few nuts and flakes.
If someone comes up with a non-abusive thread about why Jews / Blacks / Fruitarians / Left-handed Bulgarians / are ruining America, let them post and be aired or refuted like anyone else.
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yawarakaijin
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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First of all, I was'nt aware that to be an accepted member of this forum one was to respond to every single comment written.
What are you trying to get out of me anyway? Do you want me to become an apologist for a group of people who commited attrocities. Do you want me to hate all Muslims and condem an entire religion for the actions of some of its followers over 400 years ago?
Either way I would look like fool.
Feel free to now label me a hypocrite for responding to your obvious bait. What can I say, I'm having a slow day. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
| At times these threads go off the rails into nasty language and insults, but sometimes I learn things too, and it keeps my language skills from deteriorating while I'm here. To me that's not an unprofessional thing. Some people here know a lot; in every good cereal there will be a few nuts and flakes. |
What he said.
Also, there are some nuts on this thread who are clearly not worth responding to. They rant and rant, and will continue to rant. It's not them that I really direct my replies to. It's to people who have little knowledge of the issue, but were interested enough to read the thread, and I feel it's worth giving these lurkers/posters an alternative way of seeing things. Also people often write things which are actually factually incorrect in support of their rather militant arguments. Sometimes these 'facts' have been bandied about in the mainstream media, when in fact they are hotly debated by scholars, or are in fact blatantly untrue. I feel a duty to point those out.
Don't worry yourself. I certainly don't come here to convert the likes of Junior and his ilk. I rarely read his posts anyway - it's too much of the same and always rather reminiscent of Mein Kampf.
A certain amount of trolling doesn't go amiss either...helps pass the day... |
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