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The title of the thread is literally “From radical experiment to...”. To not follow through that conversation and complete the circle is being disingenuous to t
by koolba 6y ago
The title of the thread is literally “From radical experiment to...”. To not follow through that conversation and complete the circle is being disingenuous to those of us who want to have an honest discussion about the indoctrination of the youth of this nation. Peeling a band-aid is going to hurt and you can chose to do it quickly or slowly, but it still needs to be ripped off.
- dang 6y agoI was with you up to "honest discussion" and then you (from my perspective) jumped off the flamewar cliff with "indoctrination of the youth of this nation". I'm sorry, but that's just the sort of tedious rhetoric that we're trying to avoid here. This is not because of an ideological commitment on our part—it just makes for lame, nasty, terrible internet discussion. HN threads are supposed to be conversations. No one wants to have a conversation with someone going on about "the youth of this nation".
- koolba 6y ago> No one wants to have a conversation with someone going on about "the youth of this nation". It’s a puppet show who’s target market is children under the age of five. By most objective standards thats the “youth of a nation”. As someone that grew up watching the show, with very fond memories, it does pain me to see what it has become. It’s not just about the show dumbing itself down. If someone wants to have grown up conversation about that then I’m game. But if they’re afraid that any such conversation might lead to criticism, of other related or unrelated left wing political movements, well sucks to be them. These changes don’t happen in a vacuum and any frank discussion has to at least acknowledge them. Or hey let’s just flag conversations with don’t like and pretend they don’t exist.