Re: [RatFist] TenNapel is fearless

>I've heard the indoctrination accusation, even on my favorite radio show out of 
>the mouth of my >favorite radio host Ron Bennington.  That charge is out there 
>and has been out there for some >time. 
 
>Sure.  Of course, I hear the same about the gay rights movement.  That by merely 
>suggesting to children that they ought not bully kids we are indoctrinating them 
>that homosexuality is okay.  Which, of course, goes against those people's 
>prefered indoctrination that it is not.
 
Or environmentalists trying to indoctrinate or children or whomever.<


Um, but we weren't talking about that.  You implied that TenNapel, (for the 
record I'm not a fan and am rather ambivalent about the comic in question), was 
setting up a strawman of sorts, and being a "crank", (IIRC), by having one 
character have another accuse another of indoctrinating his children.  I was 
providing evidence, admittedly anecdotal, that there are people who make that 
argument so it is not unreasonable to believe that TenNapel has heard it 
therefore it wasn't a strawman, (at least not in the sense you were implying, I 
don't recall if you used the term "strawman" but I inferred that that was what 
you were getting at.)


>And, I suppose, on a technical level, anything you teach your child is 
>indoctrinating them with our own biases.<

IIRC that is very similar to  TenNapel's argument.  

Mike F.

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