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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

But the cartoon's main argument is that schools are indoctrinating young students with facts that make them feel bad.

1) That's not really what's happening - young kids are not really informed of the actual brutal past, nor would they understand it

2) Students should learn facts

3) There are ways of teaching facts that do not cause emotional distress

4) Unless we learn about these facts at a young age, we'll continue to be complicit in the attrocities committed by our countries

5) Young students learn about the group in a manner outlined by Jean Piaget, in stages, and cannot understand the actual traumas of history until after the onset of puberty

6) The purpose of this cartoon is to promote the idea that lies about the past are best for our kids, and the implication is that we should also whitewash history for ourselves

7) What's the alternative to teaching facts? Edutainment? Promoting stupidity?

8) History lessons for young kids do not focus on attrocities, and when there is a worthwhile note about an attrocity, it's explained in a very generalized manner

9) Consider the example of the conquest of the Americas, or of India, or by the Roman Empire, &c: it's the standard history of people taking what they want, at all costs. A religious excuse for the conquest of the Americas was: providence

10) When students learn about history - warts and all - they learn about themselves, humanity, and how to potentially avoid the attrocities of the past - and they're not taught in a manner that would cause them emotional distress

11) The cartoon is an excellent example of the kind of cultural infantilism and a culture of narcissism that has spread in the US since the 1970s , whereby the inner child should be coddled to the point of avoiding the attrocities of our governments. Kids and our inner child don't benefit from this coddling, nor do others. Children are dying on a daily basis in Yemen due to hunger, thanks to Saudi Arabia, the US and Israel. We're not teaching children this, but they can read about it in the news. Kids will grow up understanding some of the shadow costs of greed and the military undustrial complex when they are taught basic history. Who among us adults care about what's happening in Yemen? Our views today were shaped by our earlier education.

[–]TheJamesRocket 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (12 children)

But the cartoon's main argument is that schools are indoctrinating young students with facts that make them feel bad.

CRITICAL. RACE. THEORY.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

critical race theory ... relies on [apartheid and white supremacist] social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes [human rights, human decency, humanity, etc., and thus allow the most powerful to violate the most vulnerable and destroy their potential opportunities for social mobility.]source

EDIT: And to be clear - those words in brackets above have been mine - insofar as I am criticizing Critical Race Theory, which it seems has not been obvious to some here. /u/TheJamesRocket has, it seems, misinterpreted my comment

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

It's daft to quote Wikipedia on any political matters.

Wikipedia is 100% compromised by the SJW propaganda you're trying to see through.

Quoting it proves you're profoundly compromised, unless you're using it as a starting point to show what the propagandists are pushing. Without a counter-narrative to compare with the source reference is crap.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

You're an embarrassment, Jason.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

Low tier effort. The shame is your own, especially when you use Wikipedia like that when everyone here knows it's compromised, shill.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Indeed - name-calling - one reason you're an embarrassment

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

You are a shill, whether you know it or not. That's not name-calling. That's truth-telling.

Do you feel embarrassed when you call people names and use the bad words?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's an insult, Jason. It's a way of saying: "you are NOT honest, you are NOT genuine, you are NOT worth reading, you have an agenda". It is name-calling. It is a way trying to make sure the other person is inferior to you. Shills are normally quite obvious. In my view, it is one of he worst insults a person can be called in a Saidit forum. Calling someone an asshole would be so much nicer. If instead you tell someone that their comments have no value - WITH EVERY POST YOU MAKE - they will get sick of it and will consider significant revenge. It's like getting a slap in the face every time one gets a response. It's sick.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

You haven't been honest with yourself. You haven't been honest with me. You haven't been honest with the rest of SaidIt.

I am NOT the only one who has called you out on this shit.

You say, "Thank you for the information, I'll look at it." - and then you don't only to continue spouting bullshit.

I don't like suffering fools, but I can - however, I WILL NOT SUFFER LIARS.

If that makes me a truth-supremacist, so be it. I guess I am superior to you, if that's how you feel. Personally I don't. Aside from the bots, we're all human and fallible. I once thought much like you, but I actually took the effort to break free of my comfortable ignorance. The climate change scam was the hardest red pill for me to swallow, followed by some distance with the disturbing Holocaust scam. Once you see how obvious it all is you can never un-see it. History is FULL of these scams.

Shills are normally quite obvious.

I agree. Shills are often liars. You either know you're lying and wasting our time, or you believe your own bullshit. By being polite about it you are the most dangerous kind of reasonable convincing liar.

You're not an asshole, except slightly sometimes. You're a shill, likely brainwashed to be this way by the media you consume. Your comments have value to the enemy of humanity - the ruling class.

will get sick of it and will consider significant revenge.

Confession through projection?

Do your worst if you must.

You are on the wrong side of the class war that includes all other wars. Punching up is the only legitimate direction to fight. If I was punching at you I'd get personal, but I'm aiming at the your bullshit rhetoric from on high that you're just repeating. You and your sloppy fallacies get in the way. Tighten up your debate skills and/or stop lying and you won't receive so many easily avoidable blows, from me and everyone else.

It's like getting a slap in the face every time one gets a response.

You have options:

  1. Ignore me.
  2. Block me.
  3. Do some skeptical deep diving into history and learn the truth.
  4. Just STOP LYING.

It's sick.

Not even close to as sick as supporting the establishment who are orchestrating the left-right division, racial division, gender division, perpetual wars, global lockdown, vaccine harm, and the coming global economic collapse, and global food crises.

STOP supporting tyranny, shill.