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      <title>Comments On: Oh, no, the Internets!
    
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      <![CDATA[I'm not actually talking about expecting kids to apply everything they learn in school. I'm talking about parents who misguide their own kids being in a position to legislate that schoolteachers misguide my (hypothetical) kids. 
    
    Sure, if Palin had bought the kid a copy of Our Bodies Ourselves when she turned 13, she might still have gotten pregnant. But bringing her up to be ashamed or scared of birth control increased her chances.
        
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      <![CDATA["How about your parents?"
    
    My parents weren't the ones teaching me math. And even though they helped me as much as they could, it was ultimately up to me whether or not I wanted to keep up my skills in math once I left the classroom. 
    
    Here's the thing: You're talking about expecting kids to apply what they learn in school to the real world and always keep it with them and use it as their guide, no matter what. And that just doesn't happen (hence my math analogy) as evidenced in the Jezebel post.
    
    Kids will have sex despite abstinence-only and despite comprehensive sex ed and often in spite of their parents. And while CSEd and parents may reduce the likelihood of pregnancy, STDs and the like, whether or not it prevents the pregnancy or STDs in one kid is not solely a referendum on the parent. It's ultimately about the decisions made by the kid.
    
    What's relevant here isn't whether her kid is having a kid, it's that Palin went ahead as a VP candidate knowing her kid was having a kid and knowing the scrutiny it would bring.
        
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      <![CDATA[I thought it was an argument you were making!
        
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      <![CDATA["There's no question that spreading rumors you haven't even tried to confirm is worse than printing stuff that is true but 'irrelevant.'"
    
    Yes. But that's not the argument that Kass is making.
        
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      <![CDATA[How about your parents?
        
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      <![CDATA["The candidate supports a form of sex ed (or rather a lack thereof) that wasn't even effective in her own home."
    
    I'm really awful at math. Should I be blaming my school or then-Governor Jim Thompson for that?
        
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      <![CDATA[There's no question that spreading rumors you haven't even tried to confirm is worse than printing stuff that is true but "irrelevant." 
    
    Which means what, anyway? Irrelevancy is subjective. You never know when something seemingly irrelevant will become relevant, possibly by dint of being analyzed alongside some other seemingly irrelevant factoid. This, among other things, is why truth is an absolute defense against libel. 
    
    Besides, if you're savvy enough to be VP, you're savvy enough to know the adults among your friends and family--including "children" who are old enough to drive drunk or get pregnant--are fair game for reportage. And that reportage is fair game for analysis. The public can decide whether and how the actions of your people reflect on you. 
    
    In this case, you've already shown how Bristol Palin's pregnancy could be considered "relevant": the candidate supports a form of sex ed (or rather a lack thereof) that wasn't even effective in her own home.
        
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