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Why all the Lies?
There are many ordinary people in our country
that do not identify themselves with the progressive/
socialist faction, yet unknowingly are spokesmen for
some of its important tenets. You see them duped into
supporting the global warming crowd, the radical
environmentalists, animal rights activists, the
gay agenda, and any number of “social justice”
movements. They may join the crusade against
spanking, “hate speech”, cult indoctrination or
any number of social issues that are none
of their business.
How do otherwise ordinary
people get caught up supporting
some part of a movement to
reengineer society? They
have big compassionate
hearts, and the social engineers have painted each of these issues as a moral
struggle. Who doesn’t want social justice (in the classical sense,) and to “save
the planet,” and save the children from cruelty? Many people need a crusade,
and the media, especially television, offer them causes that make them feel
they are part of the solution.
The Fringe
The uninformed who listens to the media would think that spanking is
something done by the fringe, an angry and abusive minority. The media uses
inflammatory rhetoric like “beat” instead of “spank” or “corporal punishment”
instead of “physical discipline,” obscuring a line that is extremely clear to
responsible parents.
I read an anti-spanking article by a psychologist that said she did not
believe in spanking, but she went on to confess that on occasion she got so
angry with her children that she did scream at them. She told of receiving a ten
minute lecture in a grocery store from another shopper rebuking her for angry,
abusive language toward her children. She also confessed that on occasion
her anger had caused her to slap her children in the face. She was ashamed of
her behavior and was making a candid confession, but she went on to use her
experience as an example of why parents should not adopt a policy of “hitting
their children.” The occasional slips were bad enough; don’t institutionalize the
practice, she said.
My advice to this professionally trained mother is, “Don’t hit your
children; don’t even think about spanking; you need to receive counsel from
a hillbilly mother with a sixth grade education before you have any more
children; you are out of control.” But her confession points to the reason a
small minority associate all spanking with hitting and violence, and why
they are categorically against it to the point of pushing for laws criminalizing
parents who spank their kids. Indeed, knowing their own weakness and anger,
they transfer that violent nature to all parents. When you add to the equation
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