Especially in imperial countries where the kids have to deliberately go along with many wrong history lessons?
I don't have kids, Matt Christman having one just makes me wonder how he and other Communist parents do it.
Especially in imperial countries where the kids have to deliberately go along with many wrong history lessons?
I don't have kids, Matt Christman having one just makes me wonder how he and other Communist parents do it.
I ended up accidentally raising a communist by being poor in the imperial core. And somewhat radical/leftist myself. I did a lot of injustice ranting around him on things like poverty, privilege and why we ourselves were poor. And how people (the masses) did not choose their conditions and such. And was againts stuff like bullying, tried to think with portals when answering his questions and never much gave him a rosy image of what this socdem country is. Always told him to try to see where others are coming from and adcovated for kindness and empathy.
Kid also ended up queer and neurodivergent and eventually helped turn me into a ml-communist. He did find his way to the streams of Hasan and other such things all on his own. He purged me and his dad of the red scare brainworms we had. And made me realize I too am neurodivergent and probably also genderqueer.
Interesting! How did you end up on this site?
If I remember correctly (this is not my first account here) I found lemmygrad first and then this, lurked around reading for months and then joined. It was after I had deleted all my big socials and had been on mastodon for some time, but not on lemmy. Might be I searched for it or maybe just ran into it, can't remember anymore.
Nice，glad you're here with us comrade!
What does "think with portals" mean?
It sounds like you made an empathic kid who has some tendency to put shame back in the correct place. Nice job on you, and also them too for helping you get to know yourself better. Your relationship has had great exchanges that seem to make you all freer people.
It's a reference to a game, but what I mean by it is being critical and considering different sides on an issue / not just accepting a ready given answer. Thinking out of the box as well.
We might have for example discussed something like personal responsibility and I likely would have asked him to consider the structural reasons someone might behave a certain way and question how much choice there actually is in it. Like hating ones bullies is easy, but understanding why they do it is harder. Not saying anger isn't ok, but I would typically talk with him about the possible whys of things as well. We did talk a lot and do.
I agree it has made us all freer, I owe a lot to him on how much better I personally cope with the world now. Not to mention his dad who has been able to purge himself from a lot of gender spesific toxicity as our son has modelled a better way to be to him with confidence. We also have a trans kid (stepkid to me) and have to say that these people have made us two gen X wrecks so much better and freer.