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Agreed. When I was growing up, I read anything and everything I could get my hands on. I was equally interested in books about boys, girls, black people, white
by bigstrat2003 2y ago
Agreed. When I was growing up, I read anything and everything I could get my hands on. I was equally interested in books about boys, girls, black people, white people, you name it. I read Goosebumps with equal interest as The Babysitters' Club. Having such a wide variety of topics that I read (and consumed in other media) made me a better, more well rounded person.
The idea that people must see things that look like them is toxic. We need to raise children who learn to look past superficial characteristics to see the deep human similarities beneath them, not children who uphold race (etc) as the most important thing you can know about a person.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoUnfortunately, there are too many people now who believe they are liberal and tolerant but don't know what it means since they preach and practice exactly the opposite values. It's sad because they spit on gains of the sexual, gender, and cultural revolutions up until about the 1970's and instead behave like hypocritical, ignorant fascists similar to the ones who were worth resisting centuries previously. I think the core problems are a lack of mentors and lack of pushback from previous generations of academic and cultural thought leaders to say "that's absurd". Instead, academically weak and immature instructors in academia are inculcating subsequent generations with misguided and absurd ideas about as equally insane as the MAGA movement. The result expressed on the greater society is we now have these 2 extremist cults who are doppelgängers of each other who suck the oxygen out of public policy and discourse.