i plan on teaching my kids how great freedom is, how lucky life is to be here as a kid compared to another 3rd world country. the fact my kids can own toys, choose toys, sleep on their own beds, enjoy food, etc.... is all a result of freedom. i also want to teach them the dangers of WOKE-ism, because they are white, i dont want them growing up to hate themselves due to manufactured social engineering etc... I am trying to teach my kids all this EARLY so they dont get brainwashed elsewhere. i need your ideas though. what other topics and stuff can i cover?
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But one thing that stands out for me about Wokeness is that it typically highlights genuine injustice (no not always, but often) such as racism but USES that to DIVIDE and to create hatred and discord among people.
Woke-ism is used as a weapon to darken people's minds and to create MORE injustice while pretending to do the opposite. BLM is a perfect example: Exactly HOW has BLM "helped" blacks? By burning down their neighborhoods? By pitting blacks and whites against each other?
It's all in the intent and the attitudes involved. Woke-ism has malicious intent; classical liberalism (like today's conservatism) has positive intent.
Another point: Today's conservatism, like libertarianism, is vulnerable to attack because it leans too heavily on logic and on the importance of freedom.
Freedom and Compassion are the Ying and Yang of healthy life. They are not at odds: they REQUIRE and SUPPORT each other. People are perfectly right to want compassion as part of their world-view, and the weak(er) perceived support for compassion (or love, brotherhood, etc) in modern conservatism feeds into the support for Wokeness.
Remind your children of the compassionate elements that only FREEDOM can support, and of the destruction of compassion that happens so reliably under tyranny.
Best wishes . . .
Thanks. Your post is too deep though. I need to break it up so a 5 and 6 year old can understand haha. I for sure understand what you mean though!