The headteacher gave it, predictably, and at the end essentially made it clear why he was doing it. The government has been making a lot of noise recently of the need to stop the potential for radicalisation in schools and prisons. The whole assembly wasn't as serious as I'd have liked, but it brings up an important point about British--and by extension Western--values.

When he was being serious, he mentioned things like the rule of law, liberty, tolerance and the moral values that underlie our society. Disappointingly, quite a few people I know didn't like the assembly and found it irrelevant; I do wish more people appreciate the philosophical foundations of our society, handed down during the Enlightenment by people such as David Hume, Adam Smith and later individuals like Bertrand Russell.

I also wish, even more strongly, that people could appreciate the clear superiority of Western culture--even assuming all of its flaws--and I say that unabashedly and without hesitation. I won't capitulate to barbarism, and not just militants, but those who would foist their socio-religious codes of behaviour on our society.

He played this song at the end:


And in the spirit of Voltaire he pointed out that it's not the content of his propositions which necessarily matter, but the fact that he has a right to say them.

I thought our whole values boiled down to 'fuck France and every other country'.

I never really saw us as the whole 'freedom of speech and liberty ya da ya da' like the US or France.

Partly because of our imperial and monarchical history kinda shat on those ideals, a lot.

But also because now we're kinda the people that just likes to...umm...for lack of a better term 'run on common sense'. No flashing lights or shit, just do the right decent thing and have a cup of tea.
Alright, it don't make that much sense, I'm a lil drunk atm and don't take philosophy or whatever, but I go to a school which is pretty much half Asian, and by the time the kids are in year 12 they tend to have been worn down by the shit-load of science work and the nonstop religious debates going on that their pretty much jaded about their religion and their culture. A lil better of passive cultural appropriation or some shit like that.  Hell, I think I made my mate atheist just by non-stop whining (well his crazy semi-orthodox parents didn't help either).

In short, cynicism and nat geo will wear the masses down to beautiful English comfortimy, and hopefully the police can weed out the radicals. And western culture ain't that superior, we have to wear fucking ties which is the msot stupid piece of clothing ever devised by man and TV's gon to bollocks and then there's the global warming and shit and the empires (though we were just kinda the first ones to get served the imperial pie, instead of the asians getting it). But compared to bloody radical islam were you have to wear five layers of fcuking robes IN A DESERT its pretty smart.

So I wonder when traditional British values will change to eating Halal foods and following Sharia Law?

JK

While I can't say what new culture will be the one to develop I think it is pretty clear from the birth rates at this point that in about 60 years the local peoples will be in equal number to foreign descended populations.

So did they teach about Shariah Law and Muhammad?

Even that wouldn't be as bad as the shit American schools teach.

Also I noticed that you are afflicted with extreme stupid. Nice meme.