“…our foreign policy is to blame for 9/11 and the Middle East.”
Its actually worse. As a teacher at a small private school, I’ve encountered students who are regularly exposed to the schizophrenic bile about the government blowing up the WTC, Bush is going to implant microchips in your head, etc. etc. Fortunately, the small sample I’ve discussed this with are smart enough to see the this for the nonsense that it is, however; one student told me that a teacher had her watch the disgusting conspiracy porn film Loose Change (can you imagine showing this nonsense to a child in school??? I might as well teach my world history class that UFOs built the pyramids).
Sure, kids are going to be anti-establishment. Like many my age (30) I got my first exposure to politics watching skits on SNL. Today many kids watch The Daily Show, which is not so bad, despite its bias. But if kids start accepting the absurd, slanderous conspiracies of deranged minds we’re in deep trouble.
