| > That's exactly how you develop it. I disagree. > You teach complex concepts which require kids to sort truth from fiction. You don't teach one. You teach many. And there are many. Take away nazism, flat eartherism, and CRT, and there are still many. Many more interesting useful and fruitful things to teach at that age. For sure teach them to beware of said charlatans and snake oil peddlers, but there's really no need to spend any amount of time on the bullcrap they believe. There are countless unscientific cult beliefs like this, you're going to pollute your child's mind with all of them when they are like 8-10 years old?? > You're generalizing an awful lot from n=1. I'm not, I'm talking about the basic human nature behind it (and resulting in not only CPSU but CPC, and WPK, CPK, etc.) But I'm not here to litigate the merits of socialism so much as to say it's unproven and unscientific at best. Looks like snake oil no matter how you look at it -- promises to be all things to all people, and has no proven results behind it and arguably many spectacular failures. > I teach my kid those alternative theories too. I do a sincere job of it too. He doesn't believe me, in part due to other adults in his life. That doesn't mean it's good for your kid though. An if it is, you're the one generalizing an awful lot from n=1. |
The one place where we tend to confuse ourselves is that we're charlatans and snake oil peddlers too. We all hold countless unscientific cult beliefs, some individually, and some by virtue of being embedded in a given historical and cultural context. Those are embedded in EVERY cultural and historical context. Anything you teach your kid might be snake oil, and I have enough of an open mind to know I might be wrong.
Ergo, I don't have a problem with teaching kids things which are wrong, so much as with the cult-like way in which schools teach many concepts like CRT, or the right-wing equivalents.