And you think the UK is human rights PC nutty?

[XabbaRus]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7479758.stm

I'd just love for someone to do this to me when it's my childrens's birthday....

[Skybird]

With words meaning less and lesser (often already meaning nothing anymore), labels no longer meaning what they once meant, and ideas that once were good and well today get perverted into the opposite extreme of what they originally described, it is fair to say that with each year passing Europe becomes more and more an anti-cultural mess - calling it progress were it turns itself into a zombie in fact. too bad you can't translate this german word into english that describes it so well: "geistig verblöden", you can't say it any better. With every story like this my physical feeling of nausea becomes a small bit more intense. Unfortunately I hear stories like this evry second day or so - and almost always they form greater context were you no longer can ignroe them as single cases or an exception from the rule. swedeb, Britain - and Germany as well. the brain pest is everywhere, eating.

[STEED]

We really are living in a crackpot world.

[XabbaRus]

I'd be honest if someone asks why their kid wasn't invited.."because we don't want to!!!." I hate it when it comes to Sofia's birthday. It seems as much to be about if you know the child's parents as wether your child plays with them.

This year Sofia just had her Russian friends around since my wife is friends with their parents. At the school we hardly know any of the parents. They know each other cos I live in a country town in Scotland where prety much everyone was born and grew up here and if it wasn't for the TV they'd think they was nothing else here past Aberdeen. So it's not easy...

I am just waiting for some brat to complain about the after party present though.. I'd love that.

[Jimbuna]

Thankfully my youngest is now 15 and I'm past that stage.

Believe me, I've been there and got the t-shirt etc.

[Platapus]

Well let's wait to see the verdict before getting too spun up on this. For all we know the school may be judged against.

One piece of information was not included in the article: Was there a published rule stating that if any invitations were distributed during class that no discrimination will be tolerated or was this just a spur of the moment reaction by the school?

If there was a published rule than the parents should abide by them

If this was just a spur of the moment interpretation by the school, then this is would be an arbitrary decision (as indicated in the article concerning past invitations).

My second question is how does the Swedish school interpret the word Discrimination?

If the parients only invited the white kids and excluded the few black kids than I can understand why the school would not condone such conduct on their property.

However, anyone should have the right not to invite whomever they wish not to invite.

This sounds like a policy with the best of intentions but not well thought out.

[Jimbuna]

I know nothing of Scandinavian law, but in the UK discrimination can be judged to have taken place on many grounds eg: sex, colour, age, disability, religious belief etc. etc.

Here it may well appear to be on the grounds of something that is a lot less accurately and consistently measureable......attitude and or opinion.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I know nothing of Scandinavian law, but in the UK discrimination can be judged to have taken place on many grounds eg: sex, colour, age, disability, religious belief etc. etc.

The greatest threat to secularism is when religions start to demand that voicing critical opinion about them should be forbidden and should be seen as a hate crime. The Catholic church has become very loud in the past months to warn against secularism. Islamic organisation push a legal effort in several european countries and on EU level to make any critical comment on Islam an offence for which they can sue the offender.

We will soon have laws in Europe putting critical sentiments towards the EU under penalty. In practice, politicians already behave as if people's opinions must not be their concern anyway, as we can see regarding politician's conspiracy to install the EU constitution against the will of a solid majority of the european people, no matter the cost.

Two things are sure, though. I will never let myself get forced to give political or social support I do not wish to give, neither in elections, nor in practical acts of accepting policies I do not accept and do not even tolerate. and I will never allow some tyrannic polit-zombies to decide in my place whom I have to like and have to deal with and have to invite, and whom not.

The responsibility for my decisions can be left safely to where it belongs - to me.

[Wolfehunter]

Thats soo stupid. Doesn't a government have better things to do than worry about a 8 yearold childs birthday?

Very sad waist of tax payers money.

[rifleman13]

Come on!

That's just part of life!

You may not like it but you win some, you lose some!

And the kid who didn't get invited is just someone who lost!

[SUBMAN1]

Maybe all of Europe is going PC nutty!

-S

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Maybe all of Europe is going PC nutty!

-S

I think it's been there for over a decade already

[StdDev]

Come to think of it...
I did not receive my invitation to any of Steeds last 120 B-days!!!!

This can not be tolerated!!!
NEAL!!! Neal.. Neal... Steeds bein a booger head!

[Raptor1]

The local car thief/bank robber/serial killer wasn't invited to my birthday party, does that constitute breaking his rights?

[STEED]

Originally Posted by StdDev

Come to think of it...
I did not receive my invitation to any of Steeds last 120 B-days!!!!

This can not be tolerated!!!
NEAL!!! Neal.. Neal... Steeds bein a booger head!

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