In the sense that I think it’s a pretty daring thing to ask them to do and I don’t think most teachers would try it. Maybe this didn’t work correctly, maybe these kids are too young, but I think there’s value in exploring the motivations of people like the KKK.

Well, like I said above, I’m not sure I’ll have the choice on that one given the family this kid was born into. I’m not a rider myself, but practically everyone else is. By contrast we have no football players. And we’ve always made a point of cutting out the single most dangerous type of competitive horseback riding.…

Okay, I won’t. My kid will never play football and that makes me very glad.

I think you’d be surprised how early it is. And at the end of the day I think being able to ask the question: “why are they like this?” is really important, because racism doesn’t arise in a vacuum. If we ever want to be able to rehabilitate these people or see a day where such organizations don’t exist we have to get…

Okay, fine, so it was a bit of hyperbole. I’m still happy I won’t have to tell my kid she can’t play football because I think it’s too dangerous.

I’m trying to work my way toward that too, but fantasy football has become a bit of a vice. That and I live in the greater Green Bay area

I dunno, I’m not sure you’re giving modern kids enough credit. At the very least with internet access the way it is now you have to assume they’ll be exposed to this stuff earlier than ever, so it seems to me you’re better off being proactive and doing something about it when they’re too young rather than waiting til…

The risk in football is repeated traumatic hits. The article you linked even says that that’s unlikely in horseback riding. I dunno its a moot point because with the family I have I couldn’t stop her from riding if I wanted to. And again, I don’t see that article distinguishing between people who do jumping and people…

I don’t even know if she was stupid. I feel like a lot of the time that this sort of thing happens (see controversies over assignments and classrom activities having to do with slavery) it’s a teacher who is a little ahead of the curve and people just aren’t ready for it. I’d rather my kid do an assignment where she…

On field deaths sure, but that’s not the only way football can kill someone and you know it. So its hyperbole to say its a guaranteed death sentence, doesn’t make me any less happy that my kid can’t do it.

The rate of injury falls off pretty precipitously when you’re not doing hunter-jumper but it definitely exists. My sister has broken her arm and her foot doing it, but that’s over the course of nearly twenty years now she’s been at it.

No jumping. My sister and my wife never did that. Wife never hurt herself, my sister has broken a couple of bones but that’s over the course of a 20 year career. Football is basically a 100% chance of injury at some point, so I think my risk assessment is fine.

It’s kind of a “watch the birdie” deal where they want desperately to emphasize that it was an accident that couldn’t have been prevented. Probably it was, but they don’t want you wondering whether or not football tends to breed such accidents.

that’s actually why my sister was never allowed to do the kind of riding where they do all the jumps. My kid won’t be allowed to either.

She also has relatively wealthy grandparents. Society sucks but she’s coming into it with basically all of the advantages a girl could hope for, aside from the fact that my wife and I don’t take financial help from my parents, which means that we aren’t personally wealthy.

Yeah that’s the thing. I will almost guarantee that my kid spends a lot of time riding horses when she gets older. Her mother and aunt are both riders, her aunt professionally. Doesn’t change the fact that I’m happy that there’s at least one dangerous thing out there that she can’t really do.

If she wants to join the military or the police I’ll advise her against it just like my dad did for me when I wanted to be a cop. But not because they’re dangerous, mainly because of my politics. That said I wouldn’t stop her from doing it if she were determined. Doesn’t change the fact that I’m happy that there’s…

Well, that’s going to happen for sure. My sister is a professional horse trainer, we’ve owned horses since I was a kid (though I was never a rider), and my wife also grew up around horses. Still, I feel like horseback riding, dangerous as it can be (my sister has hurt herself a number of times) is nowhere near the…

Well she’s white.

My family almost moved there when I was younger so my mom could work at a hospital in town. The realtor found out my dad was Jewish and suddenly all of the available properties were along the railroad tracks.