Years ago, children used to have a playground chant: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names'll never hurt me." They knew the differences between insults and assaults. But today the Psychology Industry is telling everyone that an angry word hurts like a bullet. With psychologists' help, everyone can share the experience of victims and by doing so, can come to see themselves as victims.
Dr. Tana Dineen, Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People, p.62
3 comments:
What a surprise - angry words are hurtful, mean, and politically incorrect - unless of course, they are directed at Christians, creationists, or political conservatives. Then such words are perfectly OK.
The phrase sticks and stones .. is rubbish. To quote a playground chant doesn't make it true, as the racist chants we had weren't true. The letter of James is very clear, words do matter, and to pretend otherwise is false.
Anonymous,
Words can only hurt as much as you let them hurt. Even so, the modern way of dealing with it by making anti-bullying laws and severely punishing children for merely copying what the entertainment industry has taught them is nothing less than a travesty. Especially since the anti-bullying laws were only enacted to protect one class of people - those who practice homosexual behavior.
And then we have many countries with "hate speech" laws, which will arrest people for preaching from the Bible. We have generated a society of crybabies.
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