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Justbe333 t1_j4wmg55 wrote

They don’t need to know that. I’m not saying it because I’m trying to deny that the existence of LGBTQ people or trans people they’re not your kids. they don’t need to know anything except what they need to know as kids. And the are smart but naive and enormously curious and bold. If they see a trans person or an LGBT couple or whatever out and about they can ask their parents, they have the Internet all of them have cell phones. They can ask other kids and other adults if they’re really curious and don’t accept their parents answer .hell they can look it up most kids now use the internet- i taught myself at 8, then taught my mom. ..if they feel on the inside like they might be like that person, the resources are out there for them to find out and they are not hidden in the least- its everywhere. unless something like that is the case ,they don’t need to know, why do people feel like it’s their place or even important to the child? The child is aware of something that may not affect them whatsoever? It’s not hiding it from them, but kids are influential creatures. They are sponges with infinite imaginations and are constantly finding themselves .they see a spaceman, They want to be a spaceman. They see us dude in a dress(cross dresser, not a trans woman). They want a dress and they want to parade around with feathers like that guy. Which is fine. Hell i used to pretend i was Chun-Li from street fighter and do lunge kicks at my buddy playing e-honda on the trampoline. I did that, naturally, without even being introduced all this stuff, and let them be kids. when ppL start trying to introduce concepts, like ideology identity and all that stuff to kids, then of course they likely will start thinking on that stuff early even before puberty and they don’t need to. It may not be with a malicious intent, but you just programed someone else’s child giving them information that wasn’t your place to give them. They do it on their own in their own timeframe trying to accelerate it in someone else’s child is just wrong. Adults the bad ones and there are a lot of bad ones are aware of how impressionable children are. The world isn’t majorally full of good, honorable and honest people as I’m sure you have observed, it’s quite the opposite. That’s why we tear up when we see a video on YouTube of a kind hearted person stopping someone from hurting themselves or others, by just being human... because it’s actually a rare thing to witness so it touches us. then I see teachers doing videos _saying that they’re talking to their first grade kids about this and they’re not sharing the information or even that they had a discussion with the parents ,they’re hiding it, and that makes me scowl and raise my eyebrow. There are more reasons that are suspect or Not noble in doing that, than good reasons. Namely, because it was the teacher who brought all this crap up in the first place the kids were supposed to be learning their times tables… let’s say it’s not grooming or recruiting at that point then it’s trying to get validation from innocent minds that aren’t going to judge and criticize harshly. That’s not the place of a teacher. That’s not their job. That’s what therapy and group meetings are for. It doesn’t come down to. I don’t want my kid to be that when it comes down to is I don’t want my kid to be that when it wasn’t 100% their own idea. Maybe with some parents it is the first one but far less than it is the other day. I’m sorry for how long as it is I don’t have time to proofread it. My phone is dying I don’t wanna lose it.

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Stunning_Regret6123 t1_j4wkf2b wrote

I kind of like Epoch, but their agenda is really clear in their coverage. Most of Fox is political commentary. When they actually do journalism, they’re not the worst, but literally no one anymore is clear on where the lines in their content are.

I respect the journey you’ve been on with them. Kudos to you for paying attention, checking sources and verifying information.

Edit: I love how pointing out things like in Capitalist America, to modern news outlets YOU are the product they are selling gets you down votes. I never understood the Cynic philosophers until Reddit. I owe you all for that, so I am grateful.

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Justbe333 t1_j4wj9ig wrote

That’s why I gave them any credit in the first place is I’ve had a mental block on them for about 20 years anything they say I just don’t wanna hear it cause fuck them I’ll get my news somewhere else. Then I realized how often the other outlets were flat out lying because I pay attention. I would instantly know some of the things they were lying about look up things that would corroborate my memory to make sure and sure is hell they were lying so I started back checking them on anything that they claimed that was outrageous or damning. They mostly just lie. This has not been the case throughout my life, in fact, until about 6 months before Trump became president CNN was mostly honest. You can always trust CNN to be left leaning but fair not liars. I don’t know what the fuck happened but now it’s practically all of them. I still hate Hannity and I don’t care to watch Fox like my parents would I’ll just catch the highlights but when I check them for bullshit by digging around, I don’t find lies. Or at least I haven’t found one for quite a while and don’t think for one second that doesn’t pain me to have to admit I used to hate Tucker Carlson_he was a joke on CNN. Now, he’s one of the better journalists alive. Hate having to say it ,but fair is fair.

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Justbe333 t1_j4whnsn wrote

No fox is the only one that doesn’t lie constantly, they’re pretty judgy and plenty of times get on a high horse about some shit, but they aren’t just making shit up or manipulating something that did happen to make it look like it was something else almost every other station does that I mean literally every single other major news outlet. Try looking up lies Trump tell during his presidency, then look up lies Biden told. I’m not even a republican and that disturbed me. According to taglines of googles results Trump-30000 lies. Biden 0 Which if you follow the news regularly and try to be neutral, you know that ain’t right. I think the people who own all these networks need to be investigated because so many of them just make stuff up and people buy it that’s dangerous. I didn’t realize it was that outta control till this week.

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