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> It's depressing to me that some people think that we should keep teaching this stuff to kids. How do you teach a child what's wrong if you can't show them e
by tenpies 6y ago
> It's depressing to me that some people think that we should keep teaching this stuff to kids.
How do you teach a child what's wrong if you can't show them examples and articulate to them why it's wrong?
Do you just not teach them and hope that one of them doesn't grow up to be the next Hitler instead?
- Igelau 6y agoMoreover, consider the appalling anti-Japanese political cartoons that Dr. Seuss made during WWII. Is there no merit in seeing the flaws of someone we otherwise hold in such high regard? And to understand that maybe something broke in the minds of otherwise nice people when a little incident at Pearl Harbor happened? We're worried about the traumas that words might inflict, but we seem to be discarding the trauma of war and history to do it. These are important discussions we need to have, but people are too scared to have them. It's easier to ban books.