The brainwashing of an American teen

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | January 24, 2004 | Kyle Williams

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Quote of the Day by CurlyBill

[billorites]

[whd23]

I have no idea what that picture has to do with this article....

...and I'm just fine with that

[Salgak]

It's from the "Britney Spears Teaches Physics" spoof page. . .

[HankReardon]

I bet many more young Americans do not survive their college party years on a yearly basis than are killed in Iraq. "I'm young, I deserve to party",it's often a deadly way of thinking. Young people have to discount their parents' conservative values to justify this. For liberals there is only one sin left, that is judgementalism. They'll think that way until the come home to a ramsacked, burglarized home or are mugged.

[alloysteel]

If my children had gotten their opinions from me, they would not all be defenders of the regime of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office,1993-2001" and militant Bush-bashers. Not that I try to talk them out of their one-sided vision (hopeless task, and largely counterproductive), but someday they will turn fifty, and look back on their misspent youths....

[NetValue]

The article is totally egotistical.

[HankReardon]

You cannot demonstrate to your children how Clinton is a decades long career criminal and president Bush has guided this nation through the problems left to him by this "man"? Such as the Clinton recession, the decimated intelligence agencies that allowed the 9-11 attacks, the corporate scandals that were able to end only after Clinton left office and on and on...

[wgeorge2001]

Is Kyle really a teen or is he a man who knows much about the dangers of facism from brainwashed children in public schools and colleges.

[FourPeas]

For liberals there is only one sin left, that is judgementalism.

Yup.

[alloysteel]

I suppose I could tie them to a chair and use a stun gun on them each time they gave a "wrong" answer. But I really, really want them to reason through on their own to the conclusion that hey, maybe the old man wasn't so far off after all... Nobody concludes their education at eighteen or twenty-three or even forty. It is an ongoing process that never stops. I plan on continuing my own until at least the year 2080.

[HankReardon]

You gotta be kidding me! There is no middle ground between the stun gun and allowing them to be misled by propaganda? I bet Goebbels loved German parents like you.

[alloysteel]

I did not ever do that, I would not ever do that, nor would I recommend that to anyone. What I am saying, and what I really meant, is that becoming overly obsessive about converting someone to your point of view, by anything more than gentle persuasion and example, only makes the other person defensive and resistant.

Something on the order of "horse whispering" to domesticate a feral horse.

[HankReardon]

The liberal propaganda is NOT just another harmless, honest point of view. It's you against the teachers at the government propaganda mills they call schools.

[Lil'freeper]

I am beginning to see my relevance in culture: Children should be seen and not heard.

Having dealt with many mass-schooled teens, this is probably good advice.

'Cuz, like, kids, you know, they're all like "Omigaaaawd, adults are, like, so stupid and all that, and, like, they don't respect us and crap? I mean, uuuhh like, we've got opinions, too and stuff? Like, just give me $50 already and, like, you know, die?" Like yeah.'

[HankReardon]

Being their parents, I am sure you would be able to tell them that before they were born that they were just as deserving of life and protection as they are today. To believe any of the liberal leftism they have to begin there by believing baby killing is simply a matter of choice, as in "Should we get another phone line"? or "What shall we have for dinner" or "I wonder if I should kill my child". A woman here in Ohio just did 7 years for killing her new born, she chose, why was she punished?

[gobucks]

What a great post. This kid is flat out funny. I fear, however, he's going to simply motivate the gov't re-education camp types even more....

"Hey Kyle, shhhhhhhhh....we're working to get on YOUR side of the fence. We need to be a little less, ahem, motivational to the enemy".

Here's what I wish: that Kyle's PARENTS write a book - "How we raised Kyle" with the subtitle, "You, too, can have a son like him!"

[aberaussie]

I don't really understand some of the responses to this article....it's satire...by a homeschooler. Homeschoolers are more likely than traditionally schooled teens to accept the values and political persuasions of their parents. That is because they are together so much, not because they are browbeaten into submission. They don't get to listen to teachers (and peers) tell them that their parents are out of touch and old fashioned and that they need to make their own decisions and do "what is right for them." Yes, he might be a little full of himself, but what fifteen year old isn't? He is writing editorials for a national audience at fifteen years old, for pete's sake. And he understands satire!

[Physicist]

I don't really understand some of the responses to this article....

The issue is that most people are tone-deaf to irony. They can't read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" without "<irony></irony>" and "<sarcasm></sarcasm>" tags inserted.

[HankReardon]

Some know real young people like this and sadly are able to apply this artcle to reality.