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Poll: Which treatment would you prefer: infantilizing respect or adultizing contempt? Assume there’s no third option.
  • infantilizing respect
    30.6%
  • adultizing contempt
    69.4%
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I can’t watch shows with badly behaved, smartass kids like Bart. Just upsetting to me somehow. I respect the Simpsons as clever writing but parts are tough to watch. From what I hear South Park is much worse.
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Yep. In the Simpsons, everybody is equally clueless, but in South Park, all the adults are clueless, and the children vary in being alive to reality, and behave not just badly but contemptuously towards all adults.
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