Professor Says Reading to Your Kids is “Unfairly Disadvantaging Other People’s Children”

If you’re reading bedtime stories to your kids, you better stop. Why? Because you’re an awful piece of garbage who isn’t thinking of other children and how disadvantaged they are.

This sage advice comes to you live from the University of Warwick England, courtesy of “philosopher” and professor, Adam Swift. And in case you were wondering, tuition for this fine institution rings in at around $32,278 a year. As the British would say, “Bloody hell.”

The National Review reports:

In an interview with ABC Radio last week, philosopher and professor Adam Swift said that since “bedtime stories activities . . . do indeed foster and produce . . . [desired] familial relationship goods,” he wouldn’t want to ban them, but that parents who “engage in bedtime-stories activities” should definitely at least feel kinda bad about it sometimes:

“I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said.

But Swift also added that some other things parents do to give their kids the best education possible — like sending them to “an elite private school” — “cannot be justified” in this way.

“Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,” he said.

If we’re going to adopt this idiotic logic, then I guess we shouldn’t feed our kids either, because some countries don’t have enough food. Oh, and you certainly shouldn’t love your children because some kids have cruel parents, and we wouldn’t want our children to expect support and kindness.

Since bad things happen in the world, nothing good should happen.

…because that makes total sense. 

This sort of thought process is so devoid of wisdom that I would only expect it to come out of a “philosopher’s” mouth. This interview happened back in May, and my only hope is Professor Swift has been thoroughly mocked for letting such an ignorant thought out into the air. But given the stupidity on our college campuses these days, he was probably praised by his colleagues.

Trade school, anyone?