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Originally Posted by Surrealistik
Social justice in the sense of equality of opportunity, rights, and minimization of gross economic/quality of life disparities is about pretty universally understood, and only tends to be given creative, wildly divergent definitions/conceptions by political extremes and the lunatic fringe.
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And unfortunately, this world creates a lot of lunatics. Why has the entire history of mankind been wrought with war? I mean sure, it's been known to create civlization, but that's only out of basically the need for families to look after one another. That is all.
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Originally Posted by Agricolus
True, canjo. Simple ethics, renamed 'social justice' for those who like their language couched and their jobs more important-sounding, are very important, and are part of what every parent, uncle, aunt, older sibling and grandparent should dispense through their everyday lives. Schools can help by reinforcing those BASIC ideals; but, for instance, teaching kids barely past the toddler age that gay diversity is important, when they barely know that heterosexual interests even exist, is brainwashing. Schools can help by working toward them, a bit at a time.
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Pretty much this.
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I've always loved that people seem to fear that kindergarten classes are going to set aside time to teach kids about gays. It is so ludicrous that it seems like something out of an SNL skit.
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True, but the act of it happening feels like a south park skit.
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Mr. Garrison: Okay, children, today we're going to talk about gay diversity.
Ike: Gay. What is gay.
Mr. Garrison: It's when two guys love one another.
Ike: Ew. Cooties.
Mr. Garrison: No, it's special.
Ike: *covers face* Ah. No. Ick.
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Little kids have inappropriate emotional reactions all the time, and it's hard enough trying to reign in the baser stuff at a young age, and teaching them to read and get along with each other (the value of sharing; I remember having trouble with that one - a lot of kindergarteners do), then it is to teach them about compassion.
Cute, painfully non-threatening cartoon characters are designed entirely to help them learn compassion in the first place, by having compassion for those cartoon characters, helping them learn other things so they can develop opinions (yes, little kids are opinionated; maybe not as sophisticated, but definitely opinionated), and then through that refining their ability to have compassion through their opinions, learn the importance of other matters later on in life, have compassion for things that are more important, and so on. Ordinarily, teachers follow a well designed schedule (granted, the subject matter of these schedules is considered archaic at current, but that's a different issue).
For everything else, there's pediatricians - people who go to university/college to learn entirely about how to better understand effective, healthy child development.
So yeah. I mean, not to say that children aren't tenacious - just saying that most of them will ignore this social justice periodic regimen.
I mean the indian kid in the photo at that rally looks so bored out of his mind, that he's concerned. I had to laugh, despite myself (actually, that isn't despite myself at all... whatever).
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You're assuming I demonize that don't follow these actions. I don't. I think they could stand to improve their behavior (just as I could stand to improve my own), but isn't that part of the point? We're unhappy with how people treat each other a significant part of the time, and we want that to change.
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Hahaha... a significant part of the time? We've been worrying about things like crime ever since cities first existed, I'd say.