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Teacher Tells Students to Call 9-11 Hijackers “Freedom Fighters”

Jerome49 Wrote: Mar 01, 2013 10:17 AM

One term is politically correct and the other isn't. The Left always seem to come up with just the right euphamism to make a realistic name sound less serious. Consider how illegal aliens became "undocumented workers" and how juvenile delinquents became "troubled youth". Consider how the current administration called the Fort Hood massacre by a radical Muslim Army psychiatrist "workplace violence" and how they called acts of terrorism "man made disasters".

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Teacher Tells Students to Call 9-11 Hijackers “Freedom Fighters”

An Advanced Placement World Geography teacher at a Texas high school who encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing also instructed them to refer to the 9-11 hijackers not as terrorists – but as “freedom fighters,” according to students who were in the class.

Students at Lumberton High School were also told to stop referring to the Holocaust as Genocide – instead they were told to use the term “ethnic cleansing.”

John Valastro, the superintendent of the Lumberton Independent School District, tells me that the teacher did absolutely nothing wrong.

“What is more dangerous – fear and ignorance or education and...

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