Professor: 'If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others'; do you grasp the INSANITY of WOKE, of leftist liberalism MADNESS; how do we deal with this madness? Solutions? According
Professor: 'If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others'; do you grasp the INSANITY of WOKE, of leftist liberalism MADNESS; how do we deal with this madness? Solutions? According
to a deranged professor at the University of Warwick in England, parents who read to their kids should be thinking about how they’re “unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children”, by Timpf
Professors Adam Swift (University of Warwick) and Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison) are working together on developing a “liberal egalitarian theory of the family.” Swift, the ABC article notes, “has been conflicted for some time” about how the “playing field” becomes lopsided — because some parents do more for their children than others.
‘I got interested in this question because I was interested in equality of opportunity,’ he says.
‘I had done some work on social mobility and the evidence is overwhelmingly that the reason why children born to different families have very different chances in life is because of what happens in those families.’
Once he got thinking, Swift could see that the issue stretches well beyond the fact that some families can afford private schooling, nannies, tutors, and houses in good suburbs. Functional family interactions—from going to the cricket to reading bedtime stories—form a largely unseen but palpable fault line between families. The consequence is a gap in social mobility and equality that can last for generations.
So, what to do?
According to Swift, from a purely instrumental position the answer is straightforward.
‘One way philosophers might think about solving the social justice problem would be by simply abolishing the family. If the family is this source of unfairness in society then it looks plausible to think that if we abolished the family there would be a more level playing field.’
Although Swift invokes Plato and his advocacy of the abolition of family, he and Brighouse recognize that they can’t go that far.
Instead, they “sort[ed] out those activities that contribute to unnecessary inequality from those that don’t.” Like, for example, private schooling:
‘Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,’ he says. ‘It’s just not the case that in order for a family to realise these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school.’
In contrast, reading stories at bedtime, argues Swift, gives rise to acceptable familial relationship goods, even though this also bestows advantage.
“We could prevent elite private schooling without any real hit to healthy family relationships,” Swift says, but doing away with reading to your kids would be “too big a hit at the core of family life.”
Boy, I guess we should all feel … lucky that Swift still allows us that “luxury?”
It is the goal of Marxists. The destruction of the family. We are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Exactly the way it was played out in Mao’s 1950-60s China.
notice that the article says: "he and Brighouse recognize that they can’t go that far." not that they SHOULDN'T go that far because it would be stupid and harmful and make the successful rearing of future generations completely impossible. but only that they CAN'T go that far, probably because parents love their children and would object to merely being used as incubators and then giving them up to the state to be raised as automatons in a factory or prison like setting.
but if you just changed some laws so that they COULD, well then....
So, there are two separate realities coexisting in the same space time. I have known this for decades and also a time would come when the frequencies would split apart. That time is now. It will come in stages and phases. The first phase is underway. Those leaving en mass are those who are not able, for whatever reason, to take advantage of the change in the paradigm we have entered. Call it a reverse rapture if you will. How will this happen? War, starvation, but 70% of Americans are double jabbed with the bioweapon. Let's say half of those have set themselves up for myocarditis and cancer... they will all be gone in the next ten years and maybe 50% in the next 5 years.... that is 100 million people just from the biomedical extermination operation.
Not complying with the ongoing extermination Democide might improve your chances of surviving the the Great Leaving. But no guarantee if you are already jabbed multiple times.....
To my jabbed fellows....Huck Finn once said, "You pay your money and you take you choice."
Or as the Templar Knight in Indiana Jones said, "He chose poorly."
Sorry.... I need to stay in a humor mode in the midst of a massive genocide most don't even understand what s going on, But if I were double jabbed + I would be on Bromelian Nattokinase, Lumbrokinase, Curcumin (tumeric) and lutein https://f1000research.com/articles/13-191/v2#referee-response-317253.
And then I would cross me fingers, pray and be the best person you can be.
And then what happens to struggling Haitians in America who are illiterate and therefore cannot read to their children or who are too exhausted after hunting through the neighborhood for cats and dogs to use in voodoo rituals or to put food on the dinner table?
Yeah I give a shit about this idiotic take. Why not ask the parents who don’t read to their children to step up their game. Everyone has to lower their standards because the lazy, stupid and inept might feel bad? I can’t bother to give a f…
I guess I should apologize...my kids are certainly PRIME examples of how I have disadvantaged the kids of stupid people who fail to teach their own children. The proof is right there for anyone to see. I do feel sorry for everyone else's kids...and while I am very pleased with my children, I am sorely disappointed in their children. Who is this nutbar Timpf? Obviously he is advising the world leaders these days...
love this David, people like that idiot I laugh at...thank you for sharing. but this is the idiocy we face and these people try to legislate that and enforce it
i want to know if he has children and if he beats them, cages them and starves them, if he turns off the heat in the winter and makes them sleep outside wearing only a hair shirt so they will be equal to others
This is said with a purpose. 1. To give credence to the oppressor/oppressed Marxist indoctrination tactic. 2. To weaken the bonds of the family structure. 3. To set children up to be wards of the state. “Don’t listen to your parents. Listen to me the professor, the bureaucrat etc” 4. The end game is achieved when children become snitches on their parents for those in power. Parents fear their children. One “wrong” move or word, ill intent or not, and the parent could “disappear.” 5. It is wise for people to not think this is lunacy. These Marxists know what they are doing.
wait until they get to "parents that feed their children are unfairly advantaging them because some children out there are starving." this is an extension of the "no one is safe until everyone is safe" BS that they circulated during the pandemic. or kamala hyena screaming "how dare we say merry christmas" when some people don't have one.
hey, some people have only one leg and sit in wheelchairs; shall we all amputate a leg and stop walking just to make things even? the big problem is that once these idiots start down this path, they can't stop themselves and that way lies ruin and misery for all, which at least makes everyone equal.
When psychopaths are not only allowed to roam freely in society, but are also empowered by a Woke paradigm with the full backing of governments, then *these* are the things that we should expect.
Well, they've been allowed and so now we got Hell. No one that became upset at the suggestion that they be taken down with extreme prejudice should now complain. People reap what they've sown.
Then of course there are those, myself included, that have been yelling from the rooftops for years that the psychos **MUST** be taken out of circulation - it's them or us!! So far those able to do something within the confines of moral law have done NOTHING but talk. We can only watch the carnage.
my mother, a woman of italian descent, married to my father, a man of greek descent, didn't read to me before bed. instead, she told me stories of the greek myths and when she ran out of those, she would make up stories, playing all the characters with different accents and voices.
such behavior might be too advantaging for the good professors!
when are the "highly educated" wingnuts going to realize that equality is not a good thing and it does not exist in nature? some flowers have more blooms or bigger blooms or more fragrant blooms than other flowers, which have their own advantages. some animals are faster or bigger. others have better hiding capabilities. men are, as a rule, stronger than women; women have, as a rule, greater tolerance to pain. this constant desire to erase all differences and make everyone the same has, wherever it's been forcibly implemented (the only way to implement is by force because it's unnatural) has led to disaster.
with all due respect, i fear you may have gone "off" without fully understanding just who Katherine Timpf really is. she is a relatively young (35) attractive conservative libertarian columnist and tv personality who has just left the National Review for Fox News. she is of the same mold as Mel K or a young Ann Coulter. she is currently pregnant with her first child which might explain why she is acutely concerned with attacks on the family and would want to call out these two kooks.
she is your ally, not your enemy so the "Timpf, up yours! You hear me, up yours!" is uncalled for. in fact, her article was a kind of "up yours" to those two professors. i read another recent article of hers where she exposes a Harvard professor, Elizabeth Bartholet, who was calling for an end to homeschooling on the grounds that it is authoritarian to allow parents that much control over their children, i guess because the State can do a much better job??? she is clearly arguing against Bartholet.
so yes, it's great that you posted her article so that more people can read it but not great that you misinterpreted her position as her being in agreement with the college professors when she was actually writing an article critical of them. if you can edit your substack, you might consider taking that out or clarifying it. the villains here are Adam Swift and Harry Brighouse, not Ms Timph.
Whenever "equity" is mentioned as a goal it should be equated with the term "lowest common denominator". The only way to achieve equity is to emulate the weakest links, the stupidest people, the laziest people, or the most dishonest.
Professors Adam Swift (University of Warwick) and Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison) are working together on developing a “liberal egalitarian theory of the family.” Swift, the ABC article notes, “has been conflicted for some time” about how the “playing field” becomes lopsided — because some parents do more for their children than others.
‘I got interested in this question because I was interested in equality of opportunity,’ he says.
‘I had done some work on social mobility and the evidence is overwhelmingly that the reason why children born to different families have very different chances in life is because of what happens in those families.’
Once he got thinking, Swift could see that the issue stretches well beyond the fact that some families can afford private schooling, nannies, tutors, and houses in good suburbs. Functional family interactions—from going to the cricket to reading bedtime stories—form a largely unseen but palpable fault line between families. The consequence is a gap in social mobility and equality that can last for generations.
So, what to do?
According to Swift, from a purely instrumental position the answer is straightforward.
‘One way philosophers might think about solving the social justice problem would be by simply abolishing the family. If the family is this source of unfairness in society then it looks plausible to think that if we abolished the family there would be a more level playing field.’
Although Swift invokes Plato and his advocacy of the abolition of family, he and Brighouse recognize that they can’t go that far.
Instead, they “sort[ed] out those activities that contribute to unnecessary inequality from those that don’t.” Like, for example, private schooling:
‘Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,’ he says. ‘It’s just not the case that in order for a family to realise these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school.’
In contrast, reading stories at bedtime, argues Swift, gives rise to acceptable familial relationship goods, even though this also bestows advantage.
“We could prevent elite private schooling without any real hit to healthy family relationships,” Swift says, but doing away with reading to your kids would be “too big a hit at the core of family life.”
Boy, I guess we should all feel … lucky that Swift still allows us that “luxury?”
do you understand this madness?
This twisted worldview is disturbingly unnatural, intentionally destructive and dehumanizing, and entirely infuriating. It's the goal of "equity."
you have hit the nail on the head.
It is the goal of Marxists. The destruction of the family. We are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Exactly the way it was played out in Mao’s 1950-60s China.
Perfectly expressed Kathleen
notice that the article says: "he and Brighouse recognize that they can’t go that far." not that they SHOULDN'T go that far because it would be stupid and harmful and make the successful rearing of future generations completely impossible. but only that they CAN'T go that far, probably because parents love their children and would object to merely being used as incubators and then giving them up to the state to be raised as automatons in a factory or prison like setting.
but if you just changed some laws so that they COULD, well then....
So, there are two separate realities coexisting in the same space time. I have known this for decades and also a time would come when the frequencies would split apart. That time is now. It will come in stages and phases. The first phase is underway. Those leaving en mass are those who are not able, for whatever reason, to take advantage of the change in the paradigm we have entered. Call it a reverse rapture if you will. How will this happen? War, starvation, but 70% of Americans are double jabbed with the bioweapon. Let's say half of those have set themselves up for myocarditis and cancer... they will all be gone in the next ten years and maybe 50% in the next 5 years.... that is 100 million people just from the biomedical extermination operation.
Not complying with the ongoing extermination Democide might improve your chances of surviving the the Great Leaving. But no guarantee if you are already jabbed multiple times.....
To my jabbed fellows....Huck Finn once said, "You pay your money and you take you choice."
Or as the Templar Knight in Indiana Jones said, "He chose poorly."
Sorry.... I need to stay in a humor mode in the midst of a massive genocide most don't even understand what s going on, But if I were double jabbed + I would be on Bromelian Nattokinase, Lumbrokinase, Curcumin (tumeric) and lutein https://f1000research.com/articles/13-191/v2#referee-response-317253.
And then I would cross me fingers, pray and be the best person you can be.
PS: My book was just published Incurable Us: https://www.amazon.com/Incurable-Me-Research-Clinical-Practice/dp/1510774947/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.U5b-Avs9vWDhQLX2SRRC5lqq-pteCLVhhaKZMGTrxFEL2kJsYkAEyb-rVnv3Dt-dcc8uL-NZgNOYws-b7zkV_e_ZMciFZnLtoOOkOf58jIzQyaVdCCFCrY-q5B37H1CavtYSHkMyH2rZSO1vX0TpcwHfDz-uVgIPiiC9KOfWrfU6mq8lrRVD8CXoKDCfhFyuwTsH8cNlt4M5w7PvMHwoEVDbBA4TISC5qXzh0yyfzBY.5YbyWvvDfIU6OGVogXH2uTa_9LQffCNOkvEob1Tt2ag&dib_tag=se&keywords=incurable+us&qid=1726278282&sr=8-1
exceptional post thank you...
your book sounds right up my alley. i'm buying a copy
This misguided Brit should be encouraging ALL parents to read to their children rather than criticizing those who do.
for sure...heads up their asses
And then what happens to struggling Haitians in America who are illiterate and therefore cannot read to their children or who are too exhausted after hunting through the neighborhood for cats and dogs to use in voodoo rituals or to put food on the dinner table?
kaboom...love this post. the humor is wicked
isn't that always the way with these asshole "progressives." their idea of progress is mass destruction, mass starvation, mass poverty, mass suffering
Yeah I give a shit about this idiotic take. Why not ask the parents who don’t read to their children to step up their game. Everyone has to lower their standards because the lazy, stupid and inept might feel bad? I can’t bother to give a f…
kaboom
well, medical school is now pass fail because the most important thing is making "historically disadvantaged" groups feel good about themselves
Patritzia, many sheeple are useless stunned dweebs.
sharing this story was to show the madness we face.
Is insanity an involuntary process or a voluntarily embraced state of stupidity inbred with FITH disease so common in liberal loons?
Yes,let's lower the bar of abilities, so we're all Mediochre....
I guess I should apologize...my kids are certainly PRIME examples of how I have disadvantaged the kids of stupid people who fail to teach their own children. The proof is right there for anyone to see. I do feel sorry for everyone else's kids...and while I am very pleased with my children, I am sorely disappointed in their children. Who is this nutbar Timpf? Obviously he is advising the world leaders these days...
love this David, people like that idiot I laugh at...thank you for sharing. but this is the idiocy we face and these people try to legislate that and enforce it
i want to know if he has children and if he beats them, cages them and starves them, if he turns off the heat in the winter and makes them sleep outside wearing only a hair shirt so they will be equal to others
Well done, David.
This is said with a purpose. 1. To give credence to the oppressor/oppressed Marxist indoctrination tactic. 2. To weaken the bonds of the family structure. 3. To set children up to be wards of the state. “Don’t listen to your parents. Listen to me the professor, the bureaucrat etc” 4. The end game is achieved when children become snitches on their parents for those in power. Parents fear their children. One “wrong” move or word, ill intent or not, and the parent could “disappear.” 5. It is wise for people to not think this is lunacy. These Marxists know what they are doing.
marxist? lol its intended to convince you unthinking that these nonsense claims are real aka propaganda.
wait until they get to "parents that feed their children are unfairly advantaging them because some children out there are starving." this is an extension of the "no one is safe until everyone is safe" BS that they circulated during the pandemic. or kamala hyena screaming "how dare we say merry christmas" when some people don't have one.
hey, some people have only one leg and sit in wheelchairs; shall we all amputate a leg and stop walking just to make things even? the big problem is that once these idiots start down this path, they can't stop themselves and that way lies ruin and misery for all, which at least makes everyone equal.
When psychopaths are not only allowed to roam freely in society, but are also empowered by a Woke paradigm with the full backing of governments, then *these* are the things that we should expect.
Well, they've been allowed and so now we got Hell. No one that became upset at the suggestion that they be taken down with extreme prejudice should now complain. People reap what they've sown.
Then of course there are those, myself included, that have been yelling from the rooftops for years that the psychos **MUST** be taken out of circulation - it's them or us!! So far those able to do something within the confines of moral law have done NOTHING but talk. We can only watch the carnage.
my mother, a woman of italian descent, married to my father, a man of greek descent, didn't read to me before bed. instead, she told me stories of the greek myths and when she ran out of those, she would make up stories, playing all the characters with different accents and voices.
such behavior might be too advantaging for the good professors!
when are the "highly educated" wingnuts going to realize that equality is not a good thing and it does not exist in nature? some flowers have more blooms or bigger blooms or more fragrant blooms than other flowers, which have their own advantages. some animals are faster or bigger. others have better hiding capabilities. men are, as a rule, stronger than women; women have, as a rule, greater tolerance to pain. this constant desire to erase all differences and make everyone the same has, wherever it's been forcibly implemented (the only way to implement is by force because it's unnatural) has led to disaster.
Dr Alexander,
with all due respect, i fear you may have gone "off" without fully understanding just who Katherine Timpf really is. she is a relatively young (35) attractive conservative libertarian columnist and tv personality who has just left the National Review for Fox News. she is of the same mold as Mel K or a young Ann Coulter. she is currently pregnant with her first child which might explain why she is acutely concerned with attacks on the family and would want to call out these two kooks.
she is your ally, not your enemy so the "Timpf, up yours! You hear me, up yours!" is uncalled for. in fact, her article was a kind of "up yours" to those two professors. i read another recent article of hers where she exposes a Harvard professor, Elizabeth Bartholet, who was calling for an end to homeschooling on the grounds that it is authoritarian to allow parents that much control over their children, i guess because the State can do a much better job??? she is clearly arguing against Bartholet.
so yes, it's great that you posted her article so that more people can read it but not great that you misinterpreted her position as her being in agreement with the college professors when she was actually writing an article critical of them. if you can edit your substack, you might consider taking that out or clarifying it. the villains here are Adam Swift and Harry Brighouse, not Ms Timph.
thank you.
WHO BELIEVES THIS NONSENSE? the gullible do. smh.
Read to the child while still in the womb and continue for many years to come very simple.
Standard operating procedure.
What absolute idiots. I hope they do not have children.
"The Benny Hill theme song describes the 2020s decade."
You will see more nonsensical things coming from academics. We all know what the end game is.
They all trust the science, right? As good atheists, they need to remember Darwinism and survival of the fittest.
Whenever "equity" is mentioned as a goal it should be equated with the term "lowest common denominator". The only way to achieve equity is to emulate the weakest links, the stupidest people, the laziest people, or the most dishonest.