<p>I just denounced my Nazi membership card yesterday. Do I get a pat on the back? or a bat on the pack?</p>
<p>Jon K didnt want this bumped due to his voice in it.</p>
<p>The Day of Silence is about tolerance.</p>
<p>The Day of Truth is about hate.</p>
<p>What’s so hard to understand about this? HATE SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECH. Am I saying their views should be concealed? No. But do they belong in schools? Hell no. Does the Day of Silence belong in schools? Yes.</p>
<p>Why? Because the Day of Silence is about extending equality and making a supportive and safe environment for everyone, while the Day of Truth is about persecuting students and making conflict and hostility. </p>
<p>The difference is clear. Oh, and by the way, gay rights = human rights.</p>
<p>i couldnt have put it better myself.</p>
<p>The one, one little problem I have with that explanation…very minor…if you answer it, I’m sold…isn’t The Day of Silence THEREFORE hateful to the intolerant people?</p>
<p>How does the Day of Silence express hate? The Day of Truth is clearly expressing hatred towards a certain group, but the DAy of Silence is just that; silence. It’s not as if its intended to make hate. The Day of Truth, however, does exactly that.</p>
<p>but but but…i’d say someone is being hateful towards me if they refused to talk to me, right?</p>
<p>its not like that. its not shunning people. its like…silence out of respect. and they’re being silent to everyone, not just the intolerant people. the point of the day isnt to persecute these people it is to raise awareness of the cause.</p>
<p>And this is the reason you need to fully privatize schools. There would be no outcry or controversy over these things.</p>
<p>there is nothing wrong with controversy ot outcry. without outcry there’d have been no civil rights movement.</p>
<p>Don’t make bad parallelisms. The civil rights movement did not start in a public school.</p>
<p>wait i dont get what ur saying?fully privatize schools? explain.</p>
<p>Meaning that these protests don’t go along well with everyone; parents, students, faculty might have problems with a specific protest, and it might be hard to balance sides; for example, in my English class, it was ok for a girl to wear an anti war T shirt, but no ok for another guy to wear a pro war sign. Now, if schools were privatized, parents would have the options of selecting which school they want their son to send; and if they felt that the school environment was not right for their child, they could remove him, thus resolving the matter in a civil manner. But, with compulsory public education, you cannot simply yank your child out of District A and put him into a District B school if you feel like the school environment doesn’t go well with your beliefs.</p>
<p>I think if the Day of Silence is allowed, then the Day of Truth is allowed. It’s two groups preaching about what they think is right, in non violent ways. If you don’t like it, don’t support it and wear the other “day’s” t-shirt. lol.</p>
<p>ur back again? nice.</p>
<p>I support the Day of Silent Truth</p>
<p>jonathan k, you clearly misunderstand what each “day” represents. </p>
<p>One is about a desire to be accepted, even tolerated by others.</p>
<p>The other is about gaybashing.</p>
<p>If one is allowed why isn’t the other?</p>
<p>You have the people that don’t like gays…and the one’s that like them. Why don’t you let them both have their days?</p>
<p>^ Precisely the problem with taxpayer funded education.</p>
<p>Our school had Day of Silence. I definitely saw lots of publicity, but I only saw about 3 students actually doing it–and only that many actually taking it seriously:(</p>
<p>even the person whose on the same side of the argument as you thinks u have a weak argument. ur ideas dont come across as intelligent or well thought out…they sound like exactly what they are–an ignorant point of view of a yet-to-mature seventh grader whose views are shaped almost entirely from his conservative, Christian family.</p>