By V4 Agency
“There is no danger so long as Central and Eastern European governments do not let harmful thoughts to be protected by legal censorship”, sociologist Dr. Filip Furman told V4NA in a recent interview. Furman pointed out that early-age exposure to propaganda confuses the child’s mind and insecurity can become a weapon in the hands of the left wing.
“The left has for years been trying to socialise children according to their own ideology, but in our region even their voters are not open to sex change and homosexual content”, sociologist Dr. Filip Furman, director of the Center for Social Sciences and Bioethics in The Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture said. V4NA had asked the expert for his opinion on propaganda tools that are circulated around children, often in the form of children’s tales that are noticeable for spreading a leftist ideology.
“Children who have grown up in traditional families are more or less immune to the radical leftist ideology”, Furman says. He also points out that in many cases, books such as the Fearless Fairy Tales or the Antiracist Baby, which have LGBT or racism as a central idea wrapped around their stories are more likely to influence the parents, who will pass on the values through reading to their children.
Dr. Furman explains that children’s minds follow a rather binary logic, therefore they see simple truths and lies, good and bad values, so complex matters like the normalisation of the non-traditional sexual orientations in tales such as And Tango Makes Three and A Fairyland for All (Meseorszag Mindenkie) may confuse children.
“Most children would get confused,” Furman points out.
“Children are still learning about concepts in preschool and they are not socialised to this craziness,” he says, adding that “uncertainty doesn’t make them ‘fearless’ but confuses them. I don’t know who can benefit from this,” he notes.
The expert is optimistic and predicts that Central and Eastern Europe is unlikely to follow the same path as the West.
“In a social perspective, all I can say is that this sort of propaganda will not be successful,” Furman opines. He points out that the reason it gained ground in the West does not lie in all people “suddenly becoming neomarxists” but in the fact that lobby groups managed to have changes to legislation in their interest. It is not a revolution but a series of legislative changes. And then, it was no longer possible to speak out against them (e.g. against LGBT propaganda) because one would violate censorship laws and eventually, we end up with harmful ideas being protected by law, he underlines.
“If we are careful enough and avoid making the mistake of adopting laws that censor free thought, and we build on open dialogue, truth can be defended. I’m not worried about Poland or Hungary right now, but we must be careful for the sake of future generations,” Furman concludes.
