My 15 year old daughters reaction to "Laptop dad"

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22. Stuff like this is never cut and dry

It's great that people have strong opinions about things, but failing to leave room for opposing opinions is the pot calling the kettle black. Parenting issues are always tricky. We see a few frames and think we're qualified to render judgment of the entire film, with no real context except our own experience and cultural values, and our own biases filling in all the rest of the story.

I don't mind disagreement, but I do mind when no room is left for my opinion except in the form of ridicule and wrongness.

Some were so quick to condemn the father as an unfit parent, as having anger issues, as threatening with violence. I saw none of that. I did see a person with cultural differences and living a different social reality than me. I saw a parent dealing a complex problem that many of us have had to deal with. Agree or disagree, there's room for discussion before judgment.

I thought progressives and liberals were not so dogmatic as to fail to keep an open mind.