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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘The Trump Effect’ is contaminating our kids — and could resonate for years
Youre being optimistic. Given what some of our children are learning from him, it may take an entire generation to recover from the hateful rhetoric he has aimed at immigrants, Muslims and Blacks Lives Matter protesters.
Trumps vitriol is making it off the campaign trail and into the lingua franca of children at an alarming rate. Just watch coverage from Trump rallies to hear the next phrases kids will be slinging at school.
Build the wall! That was the chant at a high school basketball game in Indiana last week, directed by kids from a majority-white school who held up Trump signs and yelled at the opposing players and fans, who were from a predominantly Latino school.
Rest of the Petula Dvorak WAPO article at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-trump-effect-is-contaminating-our-kids--and-could-resonate-for-years-to-come/2016/03/07/594a7f46-e47a-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz
Rex
(65,616 posts)Great, just what we need...another 'anti-roll' model to fuck things up further.
spanone
(135,810 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)...the older one pointed her finger to the door and yelled "GET OUT! GET HER OUT OF HERE! JUST GET OUT!"
Then she tried to build a beautiful wall around her blankie fort.
FSogol
(45,466 posts)CrispyQ
(36,441 posts)I read an article yesterday about how kids pick up racist attitudes super fast.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)responsibility in their duty to inform and correct the over the top statements by the Drumpfster. There has been a steady amping up of Hate and disenfranchising speech since Nixon's Reign. As long as there is not any push back,or a shaming attempt,it is only going to get worse.
And as someone mentioned about their Grand Kids going at it,well,same thing happened few weeks ago with our Grand Daughters,the name calling and insults just got over the top. Broke our rule of never getting involved when their Parents were present,had it,sat both down and had a real teaching moment with both.
pampango
(24,692 posts)the minds of too many and 'legitimized' the racism/xenophobia of people who had been relegated to the 'seldom-spoken-of' fringes of society.