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LAS14

(13,783 posts)
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 12:44 PM Nov 2019

Did any of you watch CNN's "All the President's Lies?" I didn't learn...

...much that was new to me, but I came away thinking that education, starting in kindergarten, about how to defend oneself from lies is critical. I watched my own brain wait for the repetition of "Hunter Biden and Burisma" to turn into curiosity. I kept reminding myself that respected news outlets (and I still do count on them, NYT, WaPo, CNN) had assured themselves that there was no more to investigate. But that's a pretty educated maneuver. The CNN show pointed out that repetition, even if it is to say "there's nothing there," plants belief.

I worry about the situations where elementary and high school teachers are Trumpers and don't have an investment in teaching people how to decide what is true.

Do any of you have real life examples of that sort of teacher in the public schools?

tia
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Did any of you watch CNN's "All the President's Lies?" I didn't learn... (Original Post) LAS14 Nov 2019 OP
I don't think I grew up in an era where such intentional manipulation of the truth was such an issue hlthe2b Nov 2019 #1
I don't think this kind of intentional lying would have worked before Twitter and Facebook. nt LAS14 Nov 2019 #2

hlthe2b

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1. I don't think I grew up in an era where such intentional manipulation of the truth was such an issue
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 12:58 PM
Nov 2019

at least to the magnitude that it is now. Now we have an era where parents are so hypersensitized, partisan and ideological...

I can't imagine how a teacher of elementary students would navigate this issue without at least a few parents becoming enraged at the suggestion their young child was not to take at faith everything an adult says since that would undoubtedly lead to early questioning of themselves.

When I think back to how I really learned to be generally skeptical, I think it was from reading books, including biographies. History is a real lesson in this regard...

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