Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?

• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  • Question is about explaining terrorism to kids.

  • Kids go to school.

  • School shooters famously also target schools.

  • Kids are aware of terrorism due to the constant threat of a school shooting.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah I got that, but no one asked their political stance lol

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t know what to tell you. When it comes to school shootings, it’s politics all the way down. There’s a reason that the US is the only developed country selling bullet-proof gear in the back-to-school section.

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      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m not American so I’m here asking questions to be educated.

        Because I also, from the limited amount of information that I got about it, didn’t think of school shooters as specially right wing. Or as any kind of right wing organization or movement to impose their politics through means of violence against civil population.

        As European when I think of right wing terrorism I think of this fascists shooters we had that literally had fascist manifestos and were part of fascista groups.

        But I’ve heard many times this idea of American school shooters being right wing terrorists, so I’m genuinely interested in truly understanding what gives them this consideration, as from my POV (again a very limited POV) I thought of them as a failure of mental health, social integration and a bad school system in general, all united with the incredibly accessible firearms. But not specially as part of a terrorist group.

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lol it’s so funny That you’re a typing bag of hammers. Lol. Good one bro.

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• libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  it gives a reason for the first sentence. ‘The sky is blue. Blue light gets scattered more than other colors.’ Same idea.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I didn’t follow but thanks for being kind and explaining

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    • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?

      OP asks how to explain to kids about terrorism.

      Bro kids today are fully aware about terrorism

      Guy says kids don’t need to have terrorism explained to them.

      School shooters are … terrorists

      Guy provides a reason why kids don’t need to have terrorism explained: they already learn about it in the form of school shooters, who are terrorists.

      mainly right wing

      Guy makes an assertion in the middle of the previous sentence that doesn’t really have much to do with it. Whether or not it’s true has no bearing on the everything else.

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