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Re: Hundreds of Colorado students protest history curriculum
Because it isn't a hypocrisy. Objecting to the policies of the president are neither unpatriotic nor civil disobedience or anti-American.
The issue as I see it is that many want to sell civil disobedience as intrinsically moral and good when in fact it should be a last resort. Civil Disobedience will develop naturally from the circumstances when the person or group finds no civil redress for their complaint. Sold as an equivalent method of redress just circumvents the civil paths to redress.
Teaching proper civil behavior, for example, would entail the good of civil protest for objecting to wrongs while also rejecting store looting and fires as valid forms of protest.
I'm just asking why some who are downplaying civil disobedience and promoting a wholesome patriotic pro-American view stops at the highest level of our president, who gets put under fire at any given chance by those same people. I am in no way trying to squelch opposition to Obama, just wondering why the hypocrisy.
Because it isn't a hypocrisy. Objecting to the policies of the president are neither unpatriotic nor civil disobedience or anti-American.
The issue as I see it is that many want to sell civil disobedience as intrinsically moral and good when in fact it should be a last resort. Civil Disobedience will develop naturally from the circumstances when the person or group finds no civil redress for their complaint. Sold as an equivalent method of redress just circumvents the civil paths to redress.
Teaching proper civil behavior, for example, would entail the good of civil protest for objecting to wrongs while also rejecting store looting and fires as valid forms of protest.
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