A Culture That Condones The Killing Of Children
فرهنگی که از کشتن کودکان اغماض میکند
And Teaches Children To Kill
و کشتن را به کودکان تعلیم میدهد
The Sandy Hook massacre isn’t just about
the need for gun control laws, it is about a culture that condones the killing
of children and teaches children that killing is okay.
It is about a country addicted to violence
on television and movie screens.
It is about cuts in education spending.
It is about giving the military free access
to our schools where
they regale our children with romanticized delusions of military
righteousness.
It is about environmental and health
policies that expose our children to all manner of toxins in the air, land and
water.
It is about thinking we have the right to
kill children with drones or by dropping toxic munitions on their countries that
cause birth defects
and miscarriages.
It is about saddling our children with crippling education debt and no
prospect for jobs.
It is about telling boys (and men) they
have to be tough and to fight and kill for what they want or think is right.
It is about a national policy that denies
children basic rights and systemically teaches them that violence is okay.
And it is about a media so insensitive that
it thinks it is okay to shove a microphone in the face of young victims in the
name of sensationalized 24/7 cable “news” while under-reporting the root causes
of this tragedy.
Sandy Hook did not happen because of a
lone, disturbed young man and it is not an isolated incident. It is an epidemic
and we are all to blame. And today (and tomorrow and every day after that) is
the time to confront this self-inflicted tragedy.
Copyright © 2012 Lucinda Marshall
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