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[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I experienced bullying and prejudice at school for being gay, and it had a detrimental impact on my confidence and wellbeing for some time.

And you think that implementing modern LGBT ideology will help that? Gay kids will get bullied way more, probably even by woke teachers. Hell, the curriculum itself will probably cause all kinds of issues for young gay men and lesbians since they'll have it drilled into their heads from a young age that they need to date the opposite sex or they are evil.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And let’s be honest, bullying is never going away. Kids are psychos by default, empathy is something they learn with experience. Yes, punish the bully, but it is incredibly important to teach children who are being bullied how to stand up for themselves. If you can stand up for yourself, a bully will leave you alone because you’re not an easy target anymore. But these classes give children the impression that LGB people are hypersensitive and emotionally weak, so this will only encourage these children to bully LGB children and teenagers even more.

[–]HelloMomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm remembering a passage from Irreversible Damage, something about how no other form of bullying in treated that way. If a Thai kid wore traditional Thai clothes to school and someone made fun of him, you'd punish the bully, say "We don't treat people that way," and then move on. You don't create a whole unit about Thai history. That would draw more attention to it, and probably be really embarrassing for the kid who got bullied.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What is up with Scotland? Their policies are worse than Ireland’s policies, and Ireland already has among the dumbest politicians in Europe. Even Sweden and Canada aren’t this bad.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I read a good piece this week on how the woke hysteria that gripped middle class Sweden around 2017 subsided substantially once they began to suffer the reality of their policy of all refugees welcome, the more young adult Muslim males the better. The politicians who supported that so vocally have changed their tune.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s good that the Swedes are beginning wake up. Lately my respect for Sweden has been increasing.

[–]blargus 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Aren't they trying to be as opposite of relatively-conservative England as possible?

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I dunno about Scotland, but Ireland is the European headquarters of Silicon Valley giants like Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google. Those companies have a lot of power and influence over here. Also, most of our media is controlled by the government, and most non-Irish media we consume is liberal media from America (CNN and Disney) or Britain (Sky and Channel 4). A lot of woke Irish people simply do not know any better, and most conservative Irish people have an old school boomer mentality so they don’t realise how dangerous woke ideology is. Being an insular country has its disadvantages.

[–]Rosefield 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not everything "first" is a good thing.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think this would be a more enlightening post with sources that show what they're actually intending to teach. The title of this post doesn't really match up with the verbiage of the article, in other words, which is pretty vague.

To start that off, here are the 33 recommendations mentioned in the article. If someone would like to actually dig up what they're proposing to implement via these recommendations, have at it; meanwhile I will leave this here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/lgbti-inclusive-education-working-group-report/pages/3/

Article archive: https://archive.ph/cC0lJ Recommendations archive: https://archive.ph/TkJy5

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

At least they left out he a this time.

[–]monnal 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I experienced bullying and hatred at school for being gay, and it had a devastating effect on my confidence and well-being for a while. And do you think the implementation of modern LGBT technology will help that? Can we take essay writing service now? Hell, body language books will probably cause all kinds of issues for young gay men and lesbians since they will have a hole in their head from a teenager.