Thursday, March 21, 2013
Just Thinking...
I was watching this special on Discovery channel about the KKK. Named KKK:beneath the Hood. It was about some KKK members who tried to justify the actions of the KKK. They tried to say that they did not have any relation to the clans past and that they were not hate group. They just thought white supremacy to be there God given right. Then the documentary showed how they taught these traits to their children as if they were not immoral. I began to think why and isn't this considered to be brainwashing in a sense. Depriving the child of making its own interpretations on society. I googled brainwashing to see what I could find that could answer some of my unanswered thoughts and I found this:http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FU_ifHrIIg0C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=brainwashing+and+philosophy&ots=6q1tovoSlC&sig=1NMTvnQo5IWkt2QMsy-1IK9KX3A#v=onepage&q=brainwashing%20and%20philosophy&f=false
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That seems like a very questionable way of raising your child. While the content of the beliefs that those parents indoctrinate their children with, I think many people would not deny the idea that a large aspect of a child's socio-political views are largely a product of their parent's upbringing. I'm not really sure what this has to do with property law. Intellectual property, perhaps? In any event, most legal ages of being able to "think critically" as an adult range from 14-21, depending on the country.
ReplyDeleteExcept perhaps in Texas, where the Republican party platform now calls for the elimination of critical thinking in schools, on the grounds that it leads to questioning authority.
DeleteI agree with Dom that this is certainly a very terrifying way to raise a child. The way children our brought up and what they are told has a large effect on how they behave as adults and how they act in our society. The good thing is, the majority of people overrules white supremacist and other hate groups (even though they claim they are not) like the KkK, and we do not take them seriously, or allow them to have any sort of power on our society. It is certainly still a huge problem, but the good side is that the majority of people today do not share these views.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the issue might be whether legally or morally whether even those who have racially biased beliefs have the right to raise they're children as they wish? I would say that to some extent they do although it makes me personally uncomfortable to try and defend that position
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