Sean Hannity, the Pledge, and Christmas

[Berzerker]

All adds up to hypocrisy...

Hannity has decried that a minority would seek the removal of the words "under God" from the pledge of allegiance thereby "denying" the majority it's right to...take oaths (?). But now Hannity is on the other side, a class of 7 year olds in Washington state voted to keep the word "winter" in a song as a substitute for "Christmas" and Hannity is complaining again...

The mother of one student, whom Hannity is cheering on, declared that you can't ask 7 year olds to vote on something like that because they don't understand the concepts involved. I tend to agree, small children don't understand these concepts, that's kind of why we have age of consent laws wrt other matters.

But why does Hannity claim we can't let the minority exclude "under God" from the pledge because the majority of children want to recite those words but now the majority of these 7 year olds must be over-ruled by the minority? Live by majority rule, die by majority rule...

[Nubclear]

Bad example.

[Berzerker]

Of what?

[Nubclear]

Hannity hypocrisy.

[MrFun]

Somehow this thread will tie in with why libertarianism is the best form of government for the world.

[Theben]

Sorry Berzerk, but unless you have a Xmas avatar I can't help you.

[Berzerker]

CT, preaching majority rule when it suits you, then preaching minority rule when it suits you, is hypocrisy.

Mr Fun, I don't jump into your threads to announce how whatever it is you're talking will relate to homosexuality.

[Berzerker]

Theben, that's my winter avatar

[Theben]

But it doesn't have a hat.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah this is kind of a silly example of Hannity hypocracy, when there are so many better examples there. It'd be like saying it is hypocritical to say we should have majority rule in our democracy, but being against a bunch of kids deciding to skip school because they can't make informed decisions yet.

The hypocracy here is a result of a strech by the thread starter.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Berzerker

Mr Fun, I don't jump into your threads to announce how whatever it is you're talking will relate to homosexuality.

Just having a little fun -- but please, carry on without me.

[Berzerker]

It'd be like saying it is hypocritical to say we should have majority rule in our democracy, but being against a bunch of kids deciding to skip school because they can't make informed decisions yet.

The hypocracy here is a result of a strech by the thread starter.

Your analogy is askew (I like that word ), in support of the pledge Hannity cites what the majority of students allegedly want but rejects that principle when the majority of students in this music class vote against what he wants. This isn't about adults voting in one case and students voting in another...

[Gatekeeper]

I'm just wondering how our forebears *survived* prior to the early 1950s, when "under God" was added to the Pledge just to make us look more God-fearing than the (officially) atheistic Soviet Union). Were our forebears unenlightened heathens?

Gatekeeper

[Ben Kenobi]

If the Pledge means nothing, why should we care about removing the words? Why not let bygones be bygones?

[uh Clem]

If the pledge means nothing, why is it so important to have under God in it?

Of course, that is part of a decent school's mission: teaching students to fit in by performing meaningless rituals.