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Last I checked it was the parents' primary job to protect a child's emotional development. And yes some kids might not be fortunate enough to have caring parents but I'm pretty sure that alone would fuck them up more than social media. But hey let us continue to make the world a safe space lest Western parents actually parent their children.

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" lest Western parents actually parent their children."

I don't understand this argument I keep hearing. What is your understanding of parenting that doesn't involve controlling what they are exposed to? It sounds like you want to say, parents should parent in any way that doesn't burden non-parents. Why would that be in a democracy?

I agree.

This idea that parents should have to be the gatekeepers for everything doesn’t work.

We work better as a community, and we have democracy so we can elect people to take care of things that are good for all of us.

Broadly, as a society we have taken to blaming individuals for not being perfect at everything.

Parenting is traditionally a group activity. The individual consumer capitalist parent is a recent, mid 20th century onwards, construct.

Western parents currently spend way more time and effort directly "parenting" then used to be a historical standard. This jab is completely ridiculous.

Also, relatedly, it is uniquely modern western idea that parent has to control everything alone by himself and have the kid under perfect control every moment.

"It takes a village to raise a child".

This is basically the village stepping up albeit in the dumbest way imaginable.

I wish it wasn't the case but have you seen how emotionally retarded (correct use of the word) this generation of children is? Compare it to even 20 years before. We wouldn't need to do this if more parents actually did their job. By the nature of the social media monoculture it's harder than ever to shield kids from anti intellectualism. Each school basically has the same culture- good and the bad.

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