Yes! Similar to the Covid terror. I know. I worked in the public school system for 26 years. I witnessed with my own (tear filled) eyes the burden of the world’s demise placed on the shoulders of 6 and 7 year olds. One milder example: “If we do not stop beach erosion, you and your family will have no more family vacations at the beach. There will be no beach to visit.”
Yes! Similar to the Covid terror. I know. I worked in the public school system for 26 years. I witnessed with my own (tear filled) eyes the burden of the world’s demise placed on the shoulders of 6 and 7 year olds. One milder example: “If we do not stop beach erosion, you and your family will have no more family vacations at the beach. There will be no beach to visit.”
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s we were not allowed to watch the news. We were oblivious to the protest and the war in Vietnam and the reason given to us was that was for adults to handle. It was their responsibility. As children we had ours. Later in 8th grade I saw an old life magazine about Vietnam. I asked my grandparents about it. They explained to me what I could comprehend and I am grateful they shielded what I would not have been able to handle as a child. They were strong for me and my cousins. A lot of the parents today are not adults in the true sense of the word. They cannot hold a candle to my grandparents.
I went ti public school in the 70s and 80s there was always a “looming disaster” … my fifth grade teacher told the class that half of us would be dead within ten years (AIDS) and I remember being very worried about the ozone layer and also about starving to death when the population grew too large to be sustainable. I fell asleep worried about nuclear bombs and a coming ice age. Those bastards have been tormenting us for decades!
My own babies come home from school telling me as fact that we have x number of years of clean water left blah blah blah. I tell them all about all the promised disasters I escaped as a kid. I do not aim to shield them but damn it they need to ask questions and not believe everything they are told at school.
Private Catholic school in the 70's and early 80's. Remember ice age, nuclear war, ozone layer. I graduated HS in 83, don't remember hearing about much about AIDS til later. But I was a news nerd from an early age so not sure if I read it at home or heard all of that at school. I wrote a term paper in HS about how budget deficits were going to ruin this country. Still believe it. Just taken longer than I thought it would.
This essay says it better than I can (from Jan 2021)
Conventional wisdom holds that technology companies are free to regulate content because they are private, and the First Amendment protects only against government censorship. That view is wrong: Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors under existing legal doctrines. Using a combination of statutory inducements and regulatory threats, Congress has co-opted Silicon Valley to do through the back door what government cannot directly accomplish under the Constitution.
It is "axiomatic," the Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), that the government "may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish." That's what Congress did by enacting Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which not only permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech but immunizes them from liability if they do so.
I graduated h.s. in 1967 and my father in particular was an avid news watcher, probably because he had been in the military as an Air Force navigator during the 1950s when we were living in England. So through my dad I also became very interested in following the news. I saw all the Vietnam coverage and I don't think it disturbed me terribly, but I did absorb what I saw. My h.s. boyfriend (now my husband!) was drafted in 1966 and sent to Vietnam for a year. Through him I've learned more of the "truth" about what he experienced and saw first hand, and how very misleading and often wrong much of the media coverage about it was. On another subject, however, my parents were VERY careful about what movies I saw. Movies weren't so bad then, but they really monitored what I could see and also read. They made sure I didn't learn about the wrong things at an early age.
Yes! Similar to the Covid terror. I know. I worked in the public school system for 26 years. I witnessed with my own (tear filled) eyes the burden of the world’s demise placed on the shoulders of 6 and 7 year olds. One milder example: “If we do not stop beach erosion, you and your family will have no more family vacations at the beach. There will be no beach to visit.”
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s we were not allowed to watch the news. We were oblivious to the protest and the war in Vietnam and the reason given to us was that was for adults to handle. It was their responsibility. As children we had ours. Later in 8th grade I saw an old life magazine about Vietnam. I asked my grandparents about it. They explained to me what I could comprehend and I am grateful they shielded what I would not have been able to handle as a child. They were strong for me and my cousins. A lot of the parents today are not adults in the true sense of the word. They cannot hold a candle to my grandparents.
I went ti public school in the 70s and 80s there was always a “looming disaster” … my fifth grade teacher told the class that half of us would be dead within ten years (AIDS) and I remember being very worried about the ozone layer and also about starving to death when the population grew too large to be sustainable. I fell asleep worried about nuclear bombs and a coming ice age. Those bastards have been tormenting us for decades!
My own babies come home from school telling me as fact that we have x number of years of clean water left blah blah blah. I tell them all about all the promised disasters I escaped as a kid. I do not aim to shield them but damn it they need to ask questions and not believe everything they are told at school.
Private Catholic school in the 70's and early 80's. Remember ice age, nuclear war, ozone layer. I graduated HS in 83, don't remember hearing about much about AIDS til later. But I was a news nerd from an early age so not sure if I read it at home or heard all of that at school. I wrote a term paper in HS about how budget deficits were going to ruin this country. Still believe it. Just taken longer than I thought it would.
This essay says it better than I can (from Jan 2021)
Save the Constitution From Big Tech
Credit: By Vivek Ramaswamy and Jed Rubenfeld
https://www.wsj.com/articles/save-the-constitution-from-big-tech-11610387105
(excerpt)
Conventional wisdom holds that technology companies are free to regulate content because they are private, and the First Amendment protects only against government censorship. That view is wrong: Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors under existing legal doctrines. Using a combination of statutory inducements and regulatory threats, Congress has co-opted Silicon Valley to do through the back door what government cannot directly accomplish under the Constitution.
It is "axiomatic," the Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), that the government "may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish." That's what Congress did by enacting Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which not only permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech but immunizes them from liability if they do so.
Now they take them to drag shows & document it for all to see.
I graduated h.s. in 1967 and my father in particular was an avid news watcher, probably because he had been in the military as an Air Force navigator during the 1950s when we were living in England. So through my dad I also became very interested in following the news. I saw all the Vietnam coverage and I don't think it disturbed me terribly, but I did absorb what I saw. My h.s. boyfriend (now my husband!) was drafted in 1966 and sent to Vietnam for a year. Through him I've learned more of the "truth" about what he experienced and saw first hand, and how very misleading and often wrong much of the media coverage about it was. On another subject, however, my parents were VERY careful about what movies I saw. Movies weren't so bad then, but they really monitored what I could see and also read. They made sure I didn't learn about the wrong things at an early age.
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These people are just plain evil!
I wish you strength as you fight the good fight every day for these little ones, Steph. May God keep you.
Horrendous.