Pernicious Tolerance - How Teaching to Accept Differences Undermines Civil Society

Informationen zum Autor Robert Weissberg Klappentext Argues that educators' obsession with homophobia! sexism! racism! and other alleged hateful disorders is part of a larger ongoing radical ideological quest to transform America! by first capturing education. This book provides tools for parents to confront disingenuous ideologues hoping to transform America under the guise of preaching tolerance. Zusammenfassung Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Two Tolerance Visions: From John Locke to PBS; 2: Some Arduous Choices on the Road to Social Harmony; 3: Preaching the Tolerance Gospel; 4: Empirical Foundations; 5: Bringing Tolerance by Criminalizing Hate; 6: Summing Up and a Disconcerting Alert

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• Authors: Robert Weissberg, Weissberg Robert
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2008
• EAN: 9781412806954
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0695-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, EDUCATION / General, Education, Political Ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, United States of America, USA, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Political ideologies and movements