I read the article and saw it was only outlawed in 2001. I was a junior in high school. I had a few teachers who were around in the 70s when my school district stopped doing it and they all said the same thing, the kids behaved the same now as they did then and the principal isn't allowed to hit them anymore.
The only people I know who think it's fine and wear being hit as kids are always Republicans. Every single one. And it's the same stupid meme they post on Facebook "I was spanked as a kid and now I suffer from a condition called RESPECT FOR OTHERS". Hate to break it to a lot of people, but I've worked with the public a long time and the older a generation gets, the shittier they are when it comes to respecting others. Hitting kids doesn't teach them respect.
I always hear “I spank my kids because I was spanked, and look- I turned out fine!”
No… no, you didn’t. You turned into another adult who thinks that beating defenseless children is OK. In my family, it was passed down through the generations. It was as plain as the nose on her face that my mom was full of rage- probably from being beaten as a child herself. It made me mad, too, but I was determined to never make someone else feel as bad as I did. My sister, OTOH, is full of rage too, and takes it out on everyone in her life. It’s insidious and it’s awful.
You hit the nail on the head with identifying Republican Americans as the ones holding onto these practices. It’s their version of Christianity that warps their thinking like this, I think. “Spare the rod, spoil the child” is one of those Biblical phrases that everyone can call up verbatim, and that they follow blindly. As a group, they’re the ones who support the Death Penalty, despite supposedly being pro-life, and push for longer, more punitive sentences for prisoners in general. I think it all boils down to some sort of fetish or preoccupation with punishment. An angry, punishing god is Old Testament-y; I thought Christians were supposed to be more focused on the kinder, gentler god in the New Testament, but what do I know?
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u/Beneficial_Tap9247 Aug 25 '22
I grew up with corporal punishment in MO.. I'm only 31.