Is there any sanity or civility left here on FR?
People who preach things that are stupid and harmful to themselves and society should be attacked.
I think what people are attacking is these people using their kids for their own validation and social experimentation.
As an adult, if you want to be brave, stupid or ignorant and walk into the lion's den, then you are an adult and can make that choice.
If you make the kids walk into that den, while you get to go work at your stupid social workers office downtown where you get to co-mingle with a "wonderfully diverse" crowd and talk about how terrible prejudice and bigotry is to all the rainbow colored heads that nod approvingly, then you have done your children a harmful disservice.
You as the adult don't have to worrry about getting whacked on the back of the head by a broomstick. You don't have to worry about getting jumped by six angry kids who don't like you because you look different. You don't have to worry about having your lunch tray knocked out of your hands every single day. You don't have to have angry kids confronting you, calling you out and humiliating you if you are lucky, and beating the tar out of you if you aren't.
Did you read the article and see the pictures of her oldest kid? Does HE look like a kid equipped to fight the good fight? I doubt it...his liberal parents did not prepare him for that. They are a peace at all costs family.
I don't think its a practice what you preach issue here. And I don't think anybody is happy that the kids were harmed.
The appeal of this story on FR is that someone can be such a fountain of shallow liberal cliches and suffer physical harm as a result of it (which isn't to say 'because of it').
It's a perfectly sane and civil conclusion to find humor in their misadventure.
Sanity is not putting your young children at physical risk to score P.C. political points.
As for civility, there is this fine line between it and "stupidity".
You are speaking rather strangely.
May I say that I have been in exactly the same position as those two boys from Oklahoma. I am speaking from bitter personal experience. Those lads will never forget living in fear for their lives and never forget their terrifying helplessness. I remember what happened to me very well, and am sixty years old.
Whatever your personal opinion is, it is unimportant in comparison.
My parents were totally oblivious to the whole affair. Intelligent people, and very, very stupid. A common malady.