[jjj1232]

Are you referencing something specific? I watched that whole clip you linked, and there’s nothing in it that would “pervert” a child’s mind.

It’s a clip explaining what protesting is, and what racism is. Both seem like valid things to explain on a kids show. Is your issue that it’s lightly in support of the BLM protests?

[ravenstine]

(not the person you were replying to) I think there are ways in which you can teach children ages 3 to 8 about these kinds of real issues, but that clip is seriously ham-fisted and not engaging. Whether they intended it or not, to me it leans more in the direction of indoctrination than what I'd like to show kids if I had any.

[koolba]

Children have no innate concept of racial discrimination or victimhood. It’s not a natural concept. It only exists because it’s drilled into their minds by good intentioned but poorly thought out ideas. Telling half the class that they’re a victim and the other half that they’re an oppressor is a recipe for disaster.

The way to end racism isn’t to brainwash children that world around them is full of racists. It’s to completely ignore the concept so they grow up with no concept of racism whatsoever. Then when they’re older and first learn about it, it’s such a laughable concept that they’ll understand that only a complete idiot would be a part in it.

[crowbahr]

Your misapprehension is that children's first encounter with Racism is from Elmo.

Racist parents exist and might be absentee enough to let their child grow up watching Sesame Street.

Cognitive bias is subtle and insidious and children are not immunized in ignorance.

To quote Proverbs: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."