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What exactly is wrong with encouraging parents to talk to their kids about historical context? Isn't that something we should encourage? I am utterly bewilder

What exactly is wrong with encouraging parents to talk to their kids about historical context? Isn't that something we should encourage? I am utterly bewildered by the contradiction in your response. On the one hand you cite a warning that explicitly tells parents to talk to their kids about the text and in the next paragraph you claim that such warnings tell people to "completely disregard" engagement. These are logically inconsistent claims. Please explain.

bobwaycott 8y ago
First, kids don't read Kant. The volume in question was an assigned text in a college philosophy course. Second, I didn't suggest the Wilder warning mentioned in the first paragraph suggested anyone should disregard engagement. My second paragraph is talking about other instances of what I first encountered (in the first paragraph), and the act of holding up a historical figure's dated views as "all the reason needed to completely disregard engaging with someone who is recognized as having had a transformative impact on history and thought". There are no logically inconsistent claims being made here. Two separate paragraphs, two separate but related things being discussed. The first is not laying a logical foundation for an argument in the second.