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Originally Posted by Adder
Is indoctrinating kids with pro-police propaganda more racist or more fascist?
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Is there a difference between a children's book with a benign depiction of a policeman the same as "indoctrinating kids with pro-police propaganda"? If the only tool in your toolbox is a sledgehammer, you certainly end up pounding on everything.
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Anyway, I think there’s a distinction between something written in direct response to antiracist argument and something that merely passively upholds existing systems, so don’t much care how we label the children’s book as long as we’re thinking about its message and what other messages need to be included to put it in context.
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Yes, of course there is. You may not care how you label things, but the point is that if you can label so much of everything as racist, the label carries less meaning.
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Tiny went through a Richard Scarry phase. I cringed every time through the section on the police (even though the officer eventually winds up making a bottle for his kid in the night, which seems fairly progressive for the time) and we actively tried to skip the section on the work moms do.
It’s complicated. Tiny loves Lupita Nwongo’s Sulwe, about a little girl uncomfortable with her dark skin, but I’m not sure she’s getting the right messages from it yet. She likes that it’s about sisters but prefers Day to Night.
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As Tiny becomes less tiny, em will like things that are not 100% groovy, and you will be pushed to compromise more. Just warning you.
Then your child is 19 and pledging a frat.
