Subj : Checking in
To   : Mike Powell
From : George Pope
Date : Tue Jan 04 2022 10:14:04

>> > I am in the US.  What is wrong with "Oh, Canada"?  I find it moving.
>> 
>> Nothing's wrong with it if you ask people who can think. . .
> Those are in short supply in younger generations these days.
>> But the new generat8ions want to update it because it has tge line "in all
> thy
>> sons' command" in it.
> I wonder how many women who actually serve are offended by that?

To join the forces is a commitment, so they'll understand that this is a  relatively new occurrence.  As always, it's those unaffected who take all the  offense -- likely guys trying to use their mock offense as a springboard to  charm the women who have no skinin the game or if they do, don't care, as they  are just doing what their conscience demands.

> In Kentucky, we had to change our state song.  It made a reference to
> African-Americans that, while not as offensive as the "N" word, was no
> longer considered flattering.  So they changed it to "people."

What was the word?

> That is all fine and dandy, except that the song used to be about the
> plight of African-Americans in this part of the country during the time
> right before the Civil War (1850's).  Now it is about nothing.  IMHO, someone
> white was probably offended that our state song was about African-Americans
> and started the whole push to change it.
> They will eventually remove the word "gay" also, if they have not already
> and I missed it.

I get it.  They've neutrered it.  It was a song extolling the history of your  state, including how you've moved past a ceretain mindset. But how do you know  you've moved past some thing, if somehow that something retroactively no longer existed?

Like the removal of the N-word from Tom Sawyer -- I say leave it in & have a  deep discussion when, invariably, a student asks about the term.

But keep things age-appropriate -- now, a kid asks, "What's a blowjob?" & the  teacher shows videos from xhamster & has them all practice on a banana(unless  it's an up-country school, then. . eep!)

I was 10 & asked our science teacxher, "If millions of sperms ejaculate & race  to the ovum, but only one fertilizes it, where do the rest go?"

He respected my question & appazrent understanding of the world by replying,  "The woman's body has a way of getting rid of the excess."

Much better than if he'd said, "think ooze, & fighting over who must sleep in  the wet spot." accompanied by cream pie video of the event in question.

It's an assault on our sensibilities all over by those who react before  thinking.

My dad always said, "Engage brain before mouth." -- it works!

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