Ignoramus30623 wrote:
On 2009-09-03, John R. Carroll wrote:
cavelamb wrote:
Ignoramus30623 wrote:
I cannot believe it that people are afraid that a president is
going to make a speech to their children. Even assuming that the
president would say something with which a parent would disagree
with, isolating children from presidential speeches is an
inadequate answer.

The better approach would be to explain to the children that not
everyone has to agree with the president about everything,
highlight differences between your opinion and the president's etc.

Trying to hide the president's speech from children is similar to
sticking one's head in the sand when you hear bad news. It is not a
productive approach and leads to living in an imaginary world.

Let's wait until the speech and then we can see if it is as evil as
some are expecting it to be. If it will be the case, then I will
adjust my understanding of reality, and if it is not, then those
who expected it to be evil, should adjust theirs.

i


Unless, of course, they see it as protecting their children from
political propaganda...

Is "propaganda" something that is evil universally? Or is Democratic
propaganda more evil than Republican propaganda? Or the reverse? Would
you want to isolate your children from both kinds of propaganda? Would
you expect that isolating children from "propaganda" may make them
resistant to it when they encounter it?

Would it not be a good idea to expose children to various age
appropriate political topics and discuss those topics with kids in a
respectful fashion?

For example, I do not like George W Bush, but if he wanted to make a
speech to children, I would not want to hide the speech from them --
but I would discuss it critically afterwards.


OK Ig, but I didn't post that.
I, tongue in cheek, posted this:

"He's probably going to teach them the Kenyan version of a secret Muslim
handshake. The one reserved exclusively for Marxist's."

What Obama is learning, or has learned, is that it wasn't Clinton that
fringe Republicans hated irrationally, it's anything not them.
That fringe, BTW, ia about all that's left of the Republican party.

--
John R. Carroll