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In article <1992Nov14.165247.19799@eskimo.com> kurt@eskimo.com (Kurt Cockrum) writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.225408.25565@nwnexus.WA.COM> edm@halcyon.com (Ed Morin) writes:
>>sgs@stein.u.washington.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
>[...]
>>I think "tolerance" is a whole different issue.  I don't think tolerance
>>should be taught - that is a personal decision dictated by one's own personal
>>beliefs.  Of course, the law requires a certain amount of "tolerance" for
>>somebody to be left alone - and that should be taught.
>
>Jeez -- what's wrong with tolerance?  Sounds like you think if a parent
>wants to teach their kids *intolerance*, maybe because somewhere in the
>bible it says "yea, tolerance of others not-like-me is harmful", then
>the parent has an absolute right to do so.  IMO this is just child
>abuse.
>

What, Kurt, you've never heard the song in "South Pacific" called
"You've Got To Be Taught":

	You've got to be taught to be afraid
	Of people whose eyes are oddly made
	And people whose skin is a different shade
	You've got to be carefully taught.
	
	You've got to be before it's too late,
	Before you are six or seven or eight,
	To hate all the people you're relatives hate.
	You've got to be carefully taught.
	You've got to be carefully taught.

	etc.



-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda