SJW Professor: "Reading bedtime stories to your kids is not fair"

[Jameerthefear]

According to a professor at the University of Warwick in England, parents who read to their kids should be thinking about how they’re “unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children” by doing so. In an interview with ABC Radio last week, philosopher and professor Adam Swift said that since “bedtime stories activities . . . do indeed foster and produce . . . [desired] familial relationship goods,” he wouldn’t want to ban them, but that parents who “engage in bedtime-stories activities” should definitely at least feel kinda bad about it sometimes: “I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said. But Swift also added that some other things parents do to give their kids the best education possible — like sending them to “an elite private school” — “cannot be justified” in this way. “Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,” he said.

”It’s just not the case that in order for a family to realize these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school,” he continued, adding that “we could prevent elite private schooling without any real hit to elite family relationships.” At one point, Swift even flirted with the idea of “simply abolishing the family” as a way of “solving the social justice problem” because “there would be a more level playing field” if we did, but ultimately concluded that “it is in the child’s interest to be parented” and that “parenting a child makes for what we call a distinctive and special contribution to the flourishing and well-being of adults.” In general, I tend to believe that focusing on improving things for the less fortunate is a better way to advance our society than purposely making things worse for those who have more, but what do I know? After all, it’s not like I’m a philosopher or anything.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...atherine-timpf

Oh look, more proof that England is the biggest cuck gathering on Earth.

[Imtheman]

Dont show this to your mom tonight. She wants to read the last cat in the hat chapter to you.

[bluechox2]

prof wants darwin to catch up

[Jailblazers7]

Only difference between now and every moment of the past is that the Internet gives this person a mic.

[Akrazotile]

Was expecting a link to the onion.

[24-Inch_Chrome]

I don't give a shit if someone else's kids are being disadvantaged.

[gts]

We know who's mommy didn't tuck him in at night

that's the biggest crock of crap i've ever read and i post on ISH

[L.Kizzle]

World is going backwards.

[bluechox2]

he needs to move to a 3rd world country instead of trying to make a 3rd world country, hes on a mission to make the movie idiocracy a reality

[NumberSix]

It wasn't that long ago that Britain ruled the world. In a mere handful of generations later, it has become a completely pu$$y society.

[oh the horror]

World is going backwards.

You can almost feel the asteroid that killed dinosaurs coming for us next

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

It shouldn't be banned and parents should definitely f*cking do it in the first place.

[Knicks101]

Dont show this to your mom tonight. She wants to read the last cat in the hat chapter to you.

Cat In The Hat has chapters now?

[Dresta]

Only difference between now and every moment of the past is that the Internet gives this person a mic.

Yeah, this is nothing new: people time and time again have thought it a good idea to abolish the family because it hinders loyalty to the state. The family is the one great counterbalance to the power and influence of the state (and the only thing that supersedes loyalty to the state), so it is no surprise that believers in the state (and the state as social) hope to destroy the one thing that really preserves a realm of privacy, personal autonomy, and freedom from the authority of the state. Not to mention it has been a known argument for thousands of years, ever since Plato saw communal ownership of children as a means of gaining absolute loyalty to the state, and destroying familial loyalty.

It seems mediocre English academics have now recognised the same thing 2,500 years later and think they're breaking new ground, or have come up with some great new idea for social justice. Abolishing private education has always been goal no. 1 for people who want to indoctrinate the young with their favoured dogmatisms.

It's not some wild crazy person using these arguments though - these are pervasive arguments in Europe, and they are not very far off the ideology of the British Labour Party (and obviously, now people keep bringing in science and going 'we don't have free will' everything needs to be changed! Even though this has also been obvious for hundreds of years also).