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Some books teach the joy of sadism, even as an innocent begs you to spare him.pic.twitter.com/0vQynV1Jl8
just look at the sentences children in the 18thc. used to practise their handwriting with: https://books.google.com/books?id=nvsbJAWQTxYC&lpg=PP1&dq=george%20bickham&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=maxims&f=false … (If you ever wondered about Kipling's Gods of the Copybook headings-- well, here they are)pic.twitter.com/GZrMt3EZmM
oh shit I wonder if this is one reason adults are creeped out by the sort of stuff kids like to watch on YouTube "oh no, the children are consuming Content with no value transmission"
@diviacaroline thoughts?
Or indeed, look at the Notorious "Three Character Classic", used since the 13th century to teach children the Chinese language in China. It is straight up confucianism. http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Sanzijing&s=1&a=tout …pic.twitter.com/IHnf3EQj9P
A fact of interest to Singaporean readers: when youthful dissident Amos Yee was making trouble for the Singapoerean Government, someone in an online forum quoted the following lines from the 3 Character Classic as a criticism of him.pic.twitter.com/QFCeH0rzHD
I had a childrens book on how fantastic Gustav Vasa is and how he invented civilization, and my family has been Catholic for three generations. Books on brutal tyrants like Elizabeth I or Henry VIII are common
Especially of the heroic queen genre. Borte and Temujin is actually a good children’s story, btw, you have to admit except for all the killing...
Thoughts on @jockowillink 's books?
Seems like he embraces it.
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