• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    18
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    It really isn’t. Think about a kid embarrassing their parent over some tech thing they don’t know.

    *Taking from my other reply:

    To understand something (think critically) you need to know the information. So it boils down to embarrassing someone for not knowing things. There is too much in life to know absolutely everything, thus my example on tech.

    The parent is supposed to teach the child that information. Not mock and embarrass them for not already knowing it.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        And a young dog knows absolutely nothing. Really, you know absolutely nothing when you’re born into the world.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        My grandmother can use her iPhone just fine, thanks. Old people just grew up still very deep in the “shame” style of teaching and so many are incredibly hesistant to learn knew things. They ‘re either proud they don’t know so it’s “cool” or laugh it off and say “haha old dog!”. Learning the new thing would require exposing themselves to a lot of information they don’t know and the struggle of learning it which all that trauma makes them afraid of.