Many Americans today think "freedom" is like how the Europeans use the word: essentially just laws that can be overturned or overruled. Remember how they had "freedom of speech" for so many years, and now they don't? That's their understanding of the word.
As far as I can tell, the idea that we're all endowed with the same natural rights by our creator is too close to religious thinking, so verboten throughout the left. Also it would sound a lot like shitting on Europe for pretending to be like us while continuing to suck like always, also verboten to the left. So they threw away John Locke and the concept of negative rights entirely.
The real problem is that these are your kids teachers that we're talking about, so this is what's being taught in schools. So yeah, she probably was straight up taught by the American education system that freedom isn't real.
Well put. Liberty is no longer a birthright. It must be fought for and reestablished in the hearts of our children before it can be reestablished in our government.
lmao in Canada it seems so staggering to explain to people that "I don't give a shit what's written on paper". Like so so many people just can't wrap their heads around the concept that a bunch of British boot lickers wearing suits in a building 150yrs ago (or more so 40yrs ago) write a "constitution" and then people just sit back and say "well the constitution says we can suspend rights in 'reasonable' situations". No. I don't give a shit, you can't just 'suspend' rights without a proper trial for a specific crime comitted by a specific person.
Lawyers are honestly some of the worst for this. Teachers too. This idea that the system is correct so what the system says is the norm and it's ok. I don't give a shit about the constitution of my country, it's meaningless words as far as I'm concerned.
Many Americans today think "freedom" is like how the Europeans use the word: essentially just laws that can be overturned or overruled. Remember how they had "freedom of speech" for so many years, and now they don't? That's their understanding of the word.
As far as I can tell, the idea that we're all endowed with the same natural rights by our creator is too close to religious thinking, so verboten throughout the left. Also it would sound a lot like shitting on Europe for pretending to be like us while continuing to suck like always, also verboten to the left. So they threw away John Locke and the concept of negative rights entirely.
The real problem is that these are your kids teachers that we're talking about, so this is what's being taught in schools. So yeah, she probably was straight up taught by the American education system that freedom isn't real.
Well put. Liberty is no longer a birthright. It must be fought for and reestablished in the hearts of our children before it can be reestablished in our government.
lmao in Canada it seems so staggering to explain to people that "I don't give a shit what's written on paper". Like so so many people just can't wrap their heads around the concept that a bunch of British boot lickers wearing suits in a building 150yrs ago (or more so 40yrs ago) write a "constitution" and then people just sit back and say "well the constitution says we can suspend rights in 'reasonable' situations". No. I don't give a shit, you can't just 'suspend' rights without a proper trial for a specific crime comitted by a specific person.
Lawyers are honestly some of the worst for this. Teachers too. This idea that the system is correct so what the system says is the norm and it's ok. I don't give a shit about the constitution of my country, it's meaningless words as far as I'm concerned.