As a teacher your point resonates with me. young people need to learn to disagree civilly — older folks and younger parents perhaps have forgotten how, to some extent given the coarsening of culture and the divisions foisted upon the populace — but the unwillingness to state a truth in order to protect someone else’s feelings is endemic…
As a teacher your point resonates with me. young people need to learn to disagree civilly — older folks and younger parents perhaps have forgotten how, to some extent given the coarsening of culture and the divisions foisted upon the populace — but the unwillingness to state a truth in order to protect someone else’s feelings is endemic now, and partly enabled us to arrive at a place where serious people accepted the covid-era inversion of responsibility and risk: “your mask protects me” and thus “I’m not comfortable if you’re not masked/vaxed.” In Boston they’ve announced masks in school this fall. I will need to ramp up my protest game because I don’t know if I can take another year of this delusion and denial of reality bowing at the altar of authorities whose power to shut things down (education, kids emotional growth, etc) MUST be clawed back. Masks are inhuman.
As a teacher your point resonates with me. young people need to learn to disagree civilly — older folks and younger parents perhaps have forgotten how, to some extent given the coarsening of culture and the divisions foisted upon the populace — but the unwillingness to state a truth in order to protect someone else’s feelings is endemic now, and partly enabled us to arrive at a place where serious people accepted the covid-era inversion of responsibility and risk: “your mask protects me” and thus “I’m not comfortable if you’re not masked/vaxed.” In Boston they’ve announced masks in school this fall. I will need to ramp up my protest game because I don’t know if I can take another year of this delusion and denial of reality bowing at the altar of authorities whose power to shut things down (education, kids emotional growth, etc) MUST be clawed back. Masks are inhuman.