Two thoughts that a person can hold simultaneously:
1. Barron Trump is an 11-year-old child who does not deserve to be mocked, attacked, or traumatized because of who his father is.
2. A lot of the outrage from the Right over the Kathy Griffin thing comes across as cynically partisan, given that many of these same people had no issues with the Obama girls seeing effigies of their father hanged and burned–and in some cases, were perfectly happy to verbally attack those children directly.
Children deserve to be protected, but there’s a reason that ‘think of the children!’ is used as a silencing tactic.
Agreed. I’m vehemently against the idea that the entire public sphere needs to be palatable to kids. “G-rated art only” is a stifling norm. I don’t think Griffin did anything wrong in creating a gory art piece, any more than horror directors or porn actors are doing anything wrong.
I’m with the critics insofar as they’re saying don’t make fun of a child for being scared, but they lose me when they take it to and therefore nothing should ever be scary for children.
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