• BanMe@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Or even if your kid is white but goes to school with black kids. I don’t want him living in a different reality than them. He’s going to have to know cops aren’t always good, and we’ve started explaining already. He’s 3 and they have already sent copaganda coloring books home, really alarming shit.

    I have been toying with the idea of writing a children’s book about this, and one about comparative religion for toddlers (your grandmother’s Jesus stories are just stories, kiddo) but publishing children’s books is hard even if they’re not controversial, so, no that won’t be happening.

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      12 days ago

      publishing children’s books is hard even if they’re not controversial, so, no that won’t be happening.

      The absolute glut of ai slop books on Amazon would seem to indicate otherwise

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      He’s 3 and they have already sent copaganda coloring books home, really alarming shit.

      What were they about

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        12 days ago

        Teaching kids words like “suspect” and “officer” and “stun device” (not kidding). Meant to teach kids that cops are friendly.

        His mom looked it up, and the cop who “wrote” the book has been charged with spousal rape, so, yeah.