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In reply to the discussion: Is continual exposure to hateful propaganda child abuse? [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)It is a term weighted with a legal meaning, defining a crime and determining punishment. Are you advocating that parents be put in jail or have their children taken away because their parents listen to hate radio? Are you advocating that DFS gets involved? If not, as your posts in this thread seem to indicate, then you need to stop using the term child abuse, because you are mislabeling the problem.
If your goal is not to get rid of hate radio, then what is your goal? If it is to talk about the effects on children, then you need to provide specific examples of these effects. Peer reviewed studies, actual examples, rather than vague notions like "I think it does harm to children." Sorry, but as of this point, you can't prove that. At best you might be able to prove that a diet of Fox news and hate radio leads to children that are poorly informed about current events, but that is about it. There is no proof of either long or short term harm done to a child.