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This seemed like typical conservative paranoia until I got to this part of the article:
This makes it pretty clear the suspicions of these conservatives are entirely valid. Teaching empathy and communication skills to kids is great and I fully support it, but teaching them how to interpret social interactions in the context of socio-political history seems like teaching them what to think, rather than how to think. That does sound like political indoctrination to me, and I absolutely do not support it.
Cue downvoting from a bunch of people who simply agree with the views being indoctrinated and don't give a damn about anyone who disagrees.
TIL acknowledging that racism exists is "indoctrination"
Yeah, better not teach kids how to recognize systemic racism, why it is bad and how to not participate in it as much as possible. That's teaching them what to think. And we wouldn't want to teach kids to that racism is bad. We want to teach kids how to think about whether or not racism is bad.
Understanding history and how it applies to modern expressions of empathy is not "political".
Empathy is simply not a conservative trait. It's difficult for conservatives to understand it without experiencing it. For that reason, your position on it being "political" indicates to me you may be conservative.
Right, because socio-political history is clearly not an important context for the real life situations that people experience.
Also, nice job preemptively dismissing those who disagree with you.