No more Holocaust, no more Crusades

I'm going to barf.

Fucketty fuck. That is my only comment on this. The sad remnants of the British Empire are truly circling the drain. I mean shit, the Muslims wont even have to do anything -- the culture of political correctness will do the country in all by itself.

Schools are dropping controversial subjects from history lessons - such as the Holocaust and the Crusades - because teachers do not want to cause offence, Government research has discovered.

The way the slave trade is taught can lead white children as well as black pupils to feel alienated, according to a study by the Historical Association.
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"Staff may wish to avoid causing offence or appearing insensitive to individuals or groups in their classes.

"In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship."
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...teachers feared confronting "anti-semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils". Christian parents at another school complained about the way the Arab-Israeli conflict was taught.

"In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-semitic sentiment among some pupils, but the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (for 11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have directly challenged what was taught in some local mosques."
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Emotive issues such as the slave trade can be taught too blandly, portraying Afro-Caribbeans as victims and isolating black pupils, the report said.

But when teachers down play the role of the white authorities in abolishing the slave trade, white children can become alienated.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/02/nschools02.xml

UPD: I agree with rkatsyv: this is no longer simply political correctness. They are simply afraid to say something that goes against what is taught at the mosque. Frightening indeed...

Oh yeah...

About ARMs and legs

http://fe3.news.re3.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070325/bs_afp/useconomypropertypolitics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201973.html

What is up with people worrying about "lending practices" and "sub-prime mortgages" to the point of trying to get the government involved?

What I don't get is why should anyone give a shit about people who can't read fine print.

If you are taking out a mortgage, especially an ARM, and dont know how it is going to go payment-wise -- you fucked up!

If you have shitty credit and people just all of a sudden give you a mortgage at a lower-than-normal rate, and you don't bother wondering what's up -- you fucked up!

Two million people apparently fucked up. Bad for them, I agree. So what are we going to do -- have taxpayers compensate them for their own stupidity?

Same goes for the lending companies -- if they were giving money to people with flimsy financials, they were wading into risky waters. They deserve to go under like a fucking rock -- it's just a result of bad business.

What I really don't want to hear is "bailout". It's sad to see people lose their homes, but one should know about the origins of free cheese. If it looks too good to be true -- it probably is, and as sad as losing one's home may be, no other person should have to give up his own money to bail out someone who made a financial mistake.