Is continual exposure to hateful propaganda child abuse?

[MadHound]

81. Yes I read this thread, why?

Look, when you use the term child abuse, it has specific, legal meaning. If somebody is guilty of child abuse, they go to jail. Are you wanting to send those parents who listen to Fox and hate radio to jail?

As far as unintended consequences go, the question becomes quickly who determines what is detrimental content for children? Will those standards fluctuate with who is in office? Because if you don't have concrete, legal definitions, then it will be left to those who are in office, and that can come back to bite you and me.

Furthermore, as one who grew up with a very conservative parent, I have a hard, hard time believing that it is child abuse. In fact it was due to my early exposure to some very far right wing propaganda that I became very liberal myself, at least in part. In addition, you're going to have a hard time convincing the public that exposure to RW propaganda is child abuse, especially when everything else in the household is fine. I know of several RW families where a parent listens to Fox, or Rush, or whatever. The parents are very loving, provide a wonderful home for their children, and do nothing, not one thing that can be considered to be child abuse.

As far as your "campaign of enlightenment" goes, it won't even get off the ground, at least not if you continue to frame the debate in terms of child abuse. It would also be laughed out of the park on the grounds of freedom of speech, and the fact that a "campaign of enlightenment" sounds way to Orwellian to far too many people. Furthermore, it would provide the right wing in this country with one more example of liberals wanting to nanny state every single thing.

If you really want to get rid of hate radio and the like, then work to restore the Fairness Act, you have a much better chance of success doing that than your "campaign of enlightenment".