• MindTraveller
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    3 months ago

    When I was 10, I heard about North Korea and asked my caregiver what communism is. He told me communism is when a country doesn’t trade with any outsiders. I made it to high school without knowing what the holocaust was.

    When my baby cousin was 10, we had an honest conversation about Korean geopolitics and I was blown away by the understanding he already had. Now he’s a 12 year old communist who stands with Palestine. I wasn’t half as based as he is when I was 12.

    Kids whose grownups talk to them about the big issues grow up to be awesome. I consider sheltering children from politics to be child abuse.