We as an audience tend to take everything for granted. We
forget that everything presented to us, has been constructed by the media in a
specific way, to convey the message that; what is presented is the truth. But
is it so?
New generation today support batman
and superman over the almighty. Little do they know that all these super heroes
are cartoonized version of Jesus or other biblical characters, filled with racial stereotypes.
We had always this problem with comic books; We believe it is full
of propaganda.We haven’t found in our whole life a Children’s comic book. The
comics that we have are manuals of parenting or religious teachings. You would
never find a gay/lesbian couple in any children’s book, thanks to the religious
code. With regard to comic books being parenting manuals; We need not explain, for
any Indian who had gone through the torturous Amar Chitra Katha would know it better.
Philosophers argue that only way to teach creativity is by
teaching children perspective and creativity is very essential for empathy. If we
love to have a future with empathizing population, We suggest we ban all the children’s
book, because the perspective that we are giving them is highly biased.
We don’t
dream of a childhood without bias. We are all biased, but we would love to bias the
child with multiple perspectives.

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