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FromSchool Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation


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079: Youth Bashing - A Generation Ago and Beyond

FromSchool Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Back when I was a teenager, in the mid-1990s, a myriad of politicians, reporters, experts and officials all shared a serious concern over a growing problem: me

“Today’s media portrayals of teens employ the same stereotypes once openly applied to unpopular racial and ethnic groups: violent, reckless, hypersexed, welfare-draining, obnoxious, ignorant. And like traditional stereotypes, the modern media teenager is a distorted image, derived from the dire fictions promoted by official agencies and interest groups.” -Mike Males, Bashing Youth (1994)


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Released:
Feb 14, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (21)

Know yourself. Teach yourself. Improve yourself. School Sucks is a podcast, call-in show, You Tube channel, & web community promoting real education and rooting out indoctrination. We discuss home-education, self-education, critical thinking, self knowledge, peaceful parenting, personal growth, nonviolent communication & non-aggression Tweets by @SchoolSucksShow !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");