My 3yo got a coloring book from a visiting cop at preschool the other day.
First off, he’s 3. Starting that young just shows how much they’ve considered it. A full half of the kids there are black, we’re in a city famous for historical racism.
His moms have established words they don’t want him using yet, like “shoot.” OK, they’re his parents I can understand and respect that. We play with nerf darts and stomp rockets, and never “launch” them at people.
So the coloring book teaches him vocabulary like “suspect,” “pepper spray,” and “stun device.” They’re answers to puzzles.
I made an offhand joke that next year’s coloring book will explain how a “suspect” was “incorrectly adjudicated” by an officer’s “bullet device.”
His moms wisely threw the book away explaining they don’t want to teach about racist, rapist pigs yet. I was so happy. He’ll never know his biological grandmother is a cop-worshipper because she’ll never meet him.
I remember being a kid and “Officer Friendly” visiting our school, then later, Officer Dickens running the D.A.R.E. program we were all forced to go through.
The propaganda is so pervasive that most people never question how wrong it is that cops are authoritarian. Good on you for doing what you can to teach your child the reality of the world.
My 3yo got a coloring book from a visiting cop at preschool the other day.
First off, he’s 3. Starting that young just shows how much they’ve considered it. A full half of the kids there are black, we’re in a city famous for historical racism.
His moms have established words they don’t want him using yet, like “shoot.” OK, they’re his parents I can understand and respect that. We play with nerf darts and stomp rockets, and never “launch” them at people.
So the coloring book teaches him vocabulary like “suspect,” “pepper spray,” and “stun device.” They’re answers to puzzles.
I made an offhand joke that next year’s coloring book will explain how a “suspect” was “incorrectly adjudicated” by an officer’s “bullet device.”
His moms wisely threw the book away explaining they don’t want to teach about racist, rapist pigs yet. I was so happy. He’ll never know his biological grandmother is a cop-worshipper because she’ll never meet him.
I remember being a kid and “Officer Friendly” visiting our school, then later, Officer Dickens running the D.A.R.E. program we were all forced to go through.
The propaganda is so pervasive that most people never question how wrong it is that cops are authoritarian. Good on you for doing what you can to teach your child the reality of the world.
I’m confused. Is that now your kid? What’s going on?
Poster is the Father?
Why would he then exclude himself from [parents]?