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New Barnardo's campaign
Skive
Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
You'll soon be seing this on TV
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7730219.stm
I think it a worthwhile campaign. Not many peole nowadays sticking up for Britains youth.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7730219.stm
I think it a worthwhile campaign. Not many peole nowadays sticking up for Britains youth.
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It's quite a random ad, but definitely interesting! Hopefully it'll work for some people somewhere!
So Barnardo's claim they managed to find a bunch of unflattering comments about children left on UK newspaper websites, do they? Any old idiot can scour the comments that readers leave on the websites of the dead-tree press to make some kind of point. It would be interesting to see exactly where the quotes came from. I have little doubt that many of them will have been taken completely out of context here - but because it's for charity, we're meant to think it's alright. Two wrongs don't make a right, Barnardo's. I notice their chief executive claims that children are called "animal(s), feral and vermin". Many of us have similar opinions on politicians, lawyers, journalists and estate agents, yet we don't have any charities lauching campaigns to defend these groups.
Yet for what it's worth, much of what they're saying is correct. Most kids are alright. Which is nothing short of a bloody miracle given how crap this country is when it comes to parenting. Or most other things, come to that.
I think they should scour this site and make a campaign! Could be quite hilarious....
And also beat them
Even jokingly, isnt it about time that we should take the moral high ground and then when we are asking for the kids to take down their hoodies, put down their knifes and guns, we can hold our heads high and say that it is wrong to say these things about kids, rather than expecting them to play nice while slagging them off behind their backs or even to their faces.
This whole hoodies are criminals business pisses me off. Wearing a hoodie isn't a criminal offence, commiting a crime is. Young people wear hoodies, it doesn't mean they're criminals.
Some young people can be just as bad at generalising other youth as the older generation.
It does my head in. I'm no longer of the age where I get grief for no reason but I did once upon a time, and it's not something I'll forget. The problem in this country is that that the is such a division between teenagers and adults. The two groups don't socialise. Youngster groupd together and feel that elders give them far too much grief which is true, and then how can you expect the youngsters to have any repect for the adults. It's vicious cirlce.
The youth is one of the last remaing sections of society that it's acceptable to descriminate against. Shops are alright to put up signs displaying 'only two kids allowed at any one time' or put up mosquito emitters but if were blacks there's be uproar.
Most kids are not bad. Lets remember that.
Also, I don't agree with the idea of calling teenagers "children" or "kids" (except in the family relational sense of course) but that's another topic.
The message is fine and Bernados are raising an issue.. but why are the men going out and letting a few rounds off at kids?
Its like an opposing campaign having a bunch of hoodies sitting round talking about kicking a guy to death then going and doing it, too extreme and too absurd to be taken seriously.
One question I ask them is what they define as antisocial. The list goes:
Violent behaviour
Drunken Behaviour
Speeding traffic
Criminal damage
These are the same priorities we get reported by the adults and it's always interesting to point out that with the exception of criminal damage, adults are the ones who are mostly responsible for the vast majority of antisocial behaviour.
When we're called to a pub brawl at 1am, it isn't to a bunch of pissed up 14 year olds, it's to a bunch of middle aged men and women who should know better.
Over the years I've got to know the "hoodies" in the town i'm responsible for, and with the exception of 1 or 2 they're all growing up to be responsible adults. I first met most of them when they were 14/15. They now all approaching their 20's and off finding jobs or going to uni, and starting to lead productive lives. They all started out as the bunch of hooded youths that people were always complaining about.
It doesn't seem acceptible to discriminate on an entire race of people based on the actions of a few, obviously sensationalised by the media.
The UK came bottom of the table of the 21 most industrialised nations for how it treats its children in a report by UNICEF. So whilst we brand our children monsters, perhaps we are not creating an environment for them to reach their potential.