@GreatAuk
This needs repeating again and again in my opinion. The self loathing of many in the West is so tedious, especially given that as a region we are the safest and most prosperous region on the planet.
Are we perfect? No absolutely not, it isn't a perfect world but we certainly live in the best part of it.
Yet we hear these constant accusations of how institutionally racist, patriarchal and homophobic western society is.
As you say, we can't be THAT racist if there is a constant and steady stream of non-whites into Europe/N. America.
It's patriarchal? Hmm maybe you should have a look at womens rights in other parts of the world before you say that.
Homophobic? I'm not gay but if I was I'd certainly want to live in the West over say the Middle East (not incl Israel).
A bit of a wider perspective would benefit these people greatly.
I feel that if watching Heat or playing GTAV inspired you to go out and kill people I think you had a screw loose anyway. Much more likely a parenting issue.
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@LN78
Because I want to protect my students from those adult stuffs.
I have to teach them to recognize which stuffs is appropriate and inappropriate for their age so they will not get into the strange stuffs that actually not suitable for them.
Also, I will explain how bad is the impact for consuming the inappropriate stuffs that is not for their age.
Even you said there was no correlation between violences in entertainment and the human behaviour, but me as a teacher who also concerning about nowadays kids that very vulnerable with inappropriate stuffs, I want to protect them with some basic knowledge to stay away from those inappropriate stuffs and behave nice to everyone.
To imagine a 6 years old kid shot his teacher by a real gun, why that was happened?
I'm really sure that kid might saw from either video games or movies or directly saw from his parent using the gun and then he shot his teacher due to his sentimental / dislikeness feeling.
I don't want something like that happened to my students.
So, assuming M rated games make you a violent person, does that mean that if you're a grown person playing E rated games where you can have MULTIPLE boyfriends (and let's say - you want to marry ALL of them) - does that make a straight person gay?
@JudgeDredd
I teach Art lesson (drawing and crafting) for grade 1 - 3, Math Club extracurricular for grade 1 - 6, Drawing extracurricular for grade 1 - 6, School librarian when I'm not teaching.
Also, I'm a substitute teacher for almost every subjects (depend on the class).
I think it's very strange for me to not touching my Switch for 1 week during this year as usually I played my Switch games at least 3 days in a week.
Maybe my hype with PS4 games is still on fire and I haven't shown any sign to play my Switch games more frequently like before.
Well, I still have quite a lot of Switch backlogs but I didn't really want to play them at the moment since I still have low hype with them, not ready yet to set my brain to get into my backlogs.
To be fair I don't want my 5 year old exposed to games such as Resident Evil for example. Hell even my 11 year old. I don't think that is considered oppressive. I don't want my kids to grow up faster than they need to.
They'll have decades upon decades to be adults, no need to hurry the process along.
If that is what he is referring to, I understand that.
With the young one I'll play things like Crash Bandicoot or the Spyro Trilogy.
With the 11 year old I'll play Hollow Knight, Ori, even Horizon.
But if my 5 year old was watching Grand Theft Auto gameplay I would be devastated.
I'll also agree with you that it is not his responsibility to make sure his students are only exposed to age appropriate material. That's what parents are for.
We in the West are the most open and tolerant society that has ever existed in the history of humanity. You literally can't point to any other society or any other year in the past that was more open and tolerant.
I truly believe that the people who are constantly ***** on Western society have never traveled outside the West and are also ironically quite privileged even within Western society.
They have a self loathing that is unparalleled. It's a pathology.
What have I missed? Anti-Matter is quite the character, I've been exposed to many things that were not age appropriate as a kid and turned out fine, as have many others I know.
There is something wrong with you if you only limit yourself to pre-School entertainment, that stuff is more likely to drive people insane when viewed 100's of times a day. Glad I'm an uncle and not a parent, you poor souls watching the same episode of Peppa Pig on repeat daily 😂
I knew something was about to happen when someone made that self-moderation comment😬.
Probably not worth catching a ban over this. You won’t get through to him. He’s banned me for some reason, but he does believe this stuff.
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@nessisonett Flat Earthers still believe all that nonsense. Even with tons of evidence to disprove most of it. No offence, but i don't have much time for people with that kind of mindset.
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