sincerecook

Intelligence is only good up to a point. The successful people I know were not the best students and their parents were not the most obsessive parents. Those kids generally ended up having more difficult and troubled lives. Trying to make your kids geniuses is a mistake.

Yes, we should never teach anyone anything because someone raised a mild and relevant objection.

Adults don't go to recess or play marbles either, were you mad about that too?

Those are all gimmicks. Normal people don't care about any of that.

If you don't like the "hate" speech, present a better argument. If you can't do that, the hate speech is simply the stating of inconvenient facts.

The interesting question is why having a different definition of the German people than "anyone who happened to come here and has lived here for a while" should be considered an extreme position. Throwing out all history and ancestry as a core component of the identity of a group of people seems rather like the extreme view.

So anecdotes from biased sources?