Home educators referred to as anti-semitic nutters!!!

[Riaz]

This one is absolutely beggar's belief.

Home schooling is proven in the United States to be an unmitigated failure as it produces a society of intellectually challenged and misled buffoons.

Counterargument by a HE activist

There are countless people who were home educated in Britain who have achieved a high degree of success in all walks of life. I was partially home educated and I managed to enrol in college without any GCSEs and leave with 3 A grade A Levels in maths and science subjects which led me to a career in electronic and software engineering.

Response

At worst its alarming because the ones who call for home schooling are usually anti semitic nutters trying to 'protect' their children from the supposed 'Jewish controlled' education system.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/posts231478-start15.html

[LovingHomeEd]

It's easier said than done. It will require people with a strong experience of trade union activism who have plenty of time on their hands. These union activists must have the ability and the required people skills to handle grievance and disciplinary cases at work if the union is to be useful. I actually think that running trade unions is something that only NT people are capable of.

Sorry, I don't know how to do that thing where the quotes come up in neat boxes!

The above comes from earlier in that discussion. I don't know anything about Trade Unions so I don't know if 'NT' has something to do with that or if it's used here in the autistic context of 'neurotypical' (as it's a discussion about an autistic trade union).

If it's the latter then it's an incredibly discriminatory and hostile remark to make. That doesn't make the later remark acceptable but it does seem from this point that the original discussion goes completely off the rails.

[Riaz]

Originally Posted by LovingHomeEd

I actually think that running trade unions is something that only NT people are capable of.

I interpret this as a person's opinion rather than fact. The person states that he is a member of a trade union so probably has experience and knowledge to justify it.

In contrast the statements put forward by the opponent of HE are presented as hostile facts with nothing to back them up with.

[llondel]

Sorry, I don't know how to do that thing where the quotes come up in neat boxes!

You have to wrap it in QUOTE tags, which is the word QUOTE wrapped in square brackets at the start and /QUOTE in square brackets at the end. Or if you've got javascript, you paste in what you want quoted, highlight it and click on the icon in the toolbar above the text box that looks like a square speech bubble.