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Sadly, I can’t disagree with your assessment.

I got off of FB when some nieces and nephews treated me just as crappily as any brainwashed youngster out there. Smart kids, but they could not see the lies for what they are. They insisted that snopes and the mediababes have it all right, and only rubes would question that.

Looking back I’m ashamed about some of my responses, because I so badly wanted to smack them out of their smug “smarter than you” holiness. Not one of them was able to actually discuss evidence but instead fell back on their “Your sources are not credible and I don’t want to talk to you” default. One deleted me altogether so I couldn’t contact her in any way.

They were all raised within the church. Several were raised in Christian schools.

How do we change this?

When my kids were in school the worst teachers of all were in middle school. Teachers who switched from elementary classrooms to middle school ones suddenly became totally unreasonable. During Black History Month one year, there were bulletin boards with minorities, including Malcolm X and some others. My son was troubled about the whole “diversity is our strength” thing and I talked to him about how the Bible says we all have different strengths. Some are an ear and others a hand - diffent abilities - but we all need each other. I said that diversity isn’t just about race but about all different kinds of people and how we should respect those who have different abilities than we do.

He talked about it with his teacher, glad he finally understood and could get behind it. Then she told him that diversity is just about Blacks, not about actually respecting all human life and treasuring differences that can fill in the weaknesses we each have.

Why did she have to do that?

When that same son was in high school he was supposed to do a research paper. He chose to do it on gun control. He is a scientist at his core, and he wanted to research actual raw data. The instructor would only let him use websites that were in the “approved” listing. IOW, lying, undocumented, totally unscientific reports. He couldn’t do it. I went to the teacher and explained why he was struggling: none of the approved sources actually did real research or discussed genuine evidence. She didn’t believe me. I asked why he couldn’t use FBI crime statistics pages. No, that wouldn’t be “credible” sources, she said. She made fun of him in class daily. He was suicidal. I wrote a long letter and met with the principal about it. In the end he stood by the teacher, who was the department head.

They just undid any real principle of real journalism, in their gusto to uphold the stinking, lying media. And they nearly killed my son to do it.

I took him out and homeschooled him. The kid is a genius. Those “well-meaning teachers” would have gladly killed him in order to keep their lying propaganda flowing.

His 2 older siblings had already been through that class and just poo-poohed their way through just to get along. The older kids turned out fine but to this day, they are less likely to understand what we are up against than the son whose very core being was attacked by those communists.

How can we change that? And how can we deal with a generation of kids that has no concept of what it means to think in an evidence-based way?

The snark and holier-than-thou judgment on anybody not buying the DEI, erase-everybody-wh0-isn’t-perfect, woke crap makes it almost impossible to have a meaningful conversation with them.

Can somebody help me know how to deal with that?