mike wax
1 min readNov 21, 2021

elaborate what? That when parents deny the existence of race and class oppression to their children they are promoting that oppression? That throughout human history the oppressors have counted on widespread ignorance of their crime in order to maintain it? That the most important thing a parent can do to perpetuate systemic oppression is to raise their kids with the lie that it doesn't exist?

you wanna elaborate how a responsible parent telling her kid the truth is a bad thing?

yes the overall the message, that class oppression is actually race oppression, that's bullshit. So she's not giving her kid a real accurate picture. She should have said "because you're white and rich" But what the hell that's WAY better than lying to your kid by pretending that the oppression doesn't exist.

And yes it's a kindergarten show but if that's what people are watching then they have that responsibility.

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