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A middle schooler decided to run an experiment testing the tolerance of her liberal classmates and teachers by wearing two different T-shirts, one supporting McCain and another supporting Obama.<\/a> It doesn’t take a genus to predict how tolerant they were when she wore the McCain shirt:<\/p>\n

“People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn’t be wearing it,” Catherine said.
\nThen it got worse.
\n“One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed,” Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.
\nBut students weren’t the only ones surprised that she wore a shirt supporting McCain.
\n“In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain,” Catherine said.
\nIf Catherine was shocked by such passive-aggressive threats from instructors, just wait until she goes to college.
\n“Later, that teacher found out about the experiment and said she was embarrassed because she knew I was writing down what she said,” Catherine said.
\nOne student suggested that she be put up on a cross for her political beliefs.
\n“He said, ‘You should be crucifixed.’ It was kind of funny because, I was like, don’t you mean ‘crucified?’ ” Catherine said.
\nOther entries in her notebook involved suggestions by classmates that she be “burned with her shirt on” for “being a filthy-rich Republican.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m surprised she was called a racists as my child and many other children have been called just because they’re white and supported McCain.
\nThere were a few who whispered there support (who can blame them with so many ready to lynch any who strayed from the collective group think) but mostly she learned how intolerant lefties are when you don’t agree with their opinion. Good lesson to learn at such a young age. And her teacher used it as a teaching moment:<\/p>\n

We asked the teacher, Norma Cassin-Pountney, whether it was ironic that Catherine would be subject to such intolerance from pro-Obama supporters in a community that prides itself on its liberal outlook.
\n“That’s what we discussed,” Cassin-Pountney said about the debate in the classroom when the experiment was revealed. “I said, here you are, promoting this person [Obama] that believes we are all equal and included, and look what you’ve done? The students were kind of like, ‘Oh, yeah.’ I think they got it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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