Today's Monday Media Review is a rough one.
In it, we discuss a recent incident at an Israeli school, and a recent documentary about a settler youth cult in the West Bank.
It should be much easier to talk about how young people have been victimized by this war, but because propaganda has trained people to rationalize the deaths of "enemy" children, it's harder than ever to talk about how this war poisons everyone involved.
And yet, that's precisely what we need to do.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/what-we-have-done-to-our-children
How we talk about and treat children says more about us as people than anything.
I don't even *like* kids, generally... but I will turn full on papa bear in their defense. And when someone starts using the behavior of kids as a justification for the dehumanization of an entire group, that's the biggest red flag that exists.