Activist teachers brainwashing children

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OUCH!

I don't think I've seen anybody round here using such extreme tactics, certainly not to the degree that would justify labelling them a hypocrite or a "hard empiricist" as a person. I think it's often reasonable to point out a dogmatic assertion. I don't like it when anybody is excessively unkind or grumpy about it, but I think dogmatic assertions can bring out unkind behaviour in the people who get exposed to them, unless they're easily led, perhaps because of the (natural, I think) suspicion of an attempt to fool the listener, or a suspicion of arrogance. It can come over as an insult to the intelligence to hear somebody say "I know x is true" (where x is controversial) without even offering anything to back it up, rather than just explaining what they've seen that has led them to think that, and owning it as their opinion, rather than putting it forward as if it were a matter of fact.

It was interesting in the 1960s and 1970s knowing that chi.nk word as a boatbuilding and an architectural term years and years before hearing same word as an ethnic slur.
References:

Sunday, January 22, 2012
Chinking and battening
http://fretwaterlines.blogspot.com/2012 ... ening.html
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This morning we ground down the edges of the new floor, cleaned things up a bit, and Jim began chinking the seams. For most of it he used seven-strand caulking wick, which is basically a bunch of string.
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and,

August 13, 2014 Appalachian architecture / Log Cabins / Tennessee
Chin.k, Daub, Repeat. A log structure restorer discusses his craft.
https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2014 ... craft.html
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The wood block chinking used by the pioneers not only added needed insulation, but also added significant structural strength to the whole building. The logs often span 25+ feet from notch to notch. With nothing in between (other than nonstructural wire), over time, gravity sags the logs. There is no upward strength supporting the length of the logs other than where they touch at the notches.

The wood blocks, then, as chinking material add structural strength, insulation, and a solid surface for the daub mix to adhere. The wood blocks also free float between the logs (not nailed to logs at all, but tightly wedged in) so that seasonal shrinking and expansion of the logs affects them very little, and if daubing does fall out, the wood shows between the logs, not rusting wire.
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Etymology,
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c.hink (n.1)
"a split, crack," 1530s, with unetymological -k + Middle English chine (and replacing this word) "fissure, narrow valley," from Old English cinu, cine "fissure," which is related to cinan "to crack, split, gape," from Proto-Germanic *kino-(source also of Old Saxon and Old High German kinan, Gothic uskeinan, German keimen "to germinate;" Middle Dutch kene, Old Saxon kin, German Keim "germ"). The connection being in the notion of bursting open.
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Anyway, as for "Activist teachers brainwashing children";
Why not?
It is efficient:
You've got them in groups of 20 to 30 at a time with several groups during a school day; economy of scale.
Since their minds are young and malleable and inexperienced, you've got an easily exploitable resource.

If you are successful there is a good chance they will grow up to pass the desired belief to their children who you might not have direct access to by that time.

So, yeah, having activist teachers brainwash children sounds like the smart way to do the brainwashing.

A bit of a tangent, but what else is a "well socialized" child or pet other than one who has been successfully brainwashed in to accepting and adhering to the mores of the surrounding society.

Yep.

The auto-censor is a bear of very little brain.
Unfortunately context is way outside its meagre, literal abilities, resulting in just this type of mangling.

I don’t like anyone using racial slurs, myself included. If I’d thought about it, I’d have made a better word choice.

Hmmm…I wonder what would happen if…

Japanese

I thought so. baaaahahahahahaha!! !!