As Rossa grew up, his life was full of unfair rules. Catholics were not allowed do the same things as Protestants, like own land or run for election. Rossa knew this wasn’t right. One day in 1865, Rossa’s newspaper, *The Irish People* was raided and shut down. Rossa was arrested for breaking the rules. Rossa was sick of rules he knew were wrong, and he beat up his prison guards any chance he got. He decided he would keep fighting however hard it became, and joined up with the Fenian Brotherhood in New York City, where he launched the dynamite campaign in the 1880s.
FTFY
That’s a book.
Kids learning about history instead of being force fed the latest Disney movie tie-in products and creating tons of plastic waste? I’ll take it.
Teaching kids about history and equality?
Terrible stuff altogether.
Andy Heasman and Co. will be storming McDonaldsis next!
Not as good as the Wacky Races toys from the 90s.
We get more accurate American history than Americans
I mean, it’s not Irish history, but it can’t be beyond the capacity of a person of normal intelligence to explain that it’s American history to their child but that it has some important lessons for everyone?
Do 1916, Mother Baby Homes, 2008 Bank Bailout by MM next 😁
But seriously what’s the point of teaching US history for Irish kids? It’s not like slavery of racial segregation was ever a thing in Ireland.
Good, hopefully it will condition the kids to be decent humans who aren’t racist
These are the Little People, Big Dreams books I presume
We have a lot of them. I’ve slightly mixed feelings as they present the person who’s the focus of the books totally uncritically which for someone who wasn’t all good like Mother Teresa annoys me. But otherwise I find them a good introduction to a wide range of real people who did interesting things.
Weird teaching American history when there are so many examples of segregation and civil disobedience in Ireland. They are an American company so that’s probably where this comes from but at the same time they already do localisation for their food and happy meals, so it wouldn’t be exceptional.
Other than that there’s no real issue, these things happened and it’s good that children be taught that they did and why so we can avoid it happening again.
Edit: wait, no. No this is terrible. Happy meals should be a distraction for the kids so the adults can have a break too. This will get them asking questions, which is the opposite of a distraction.
If you were planning to be miffed about people “standing for change” why would you request the Happy Meal with the book called “I Can Stand For Change” instead of the one about inventors called “I Can Be An Incredible Inventor”?
I prefer the wind-up wiggling milkshake toy from the 90s
Is it 2 books or did she turn into Gloria at the end?
More importantly, what do YOU think?
FAKE NEWS!
Everybody knows that it was Oisín who refused to give up his seat to a fomorian on the bus to Tír na nÓg.
It’s a good idea to be fair but if I was a child I’d be like a dog getting this in my happy meal instead of an actual toy.
I think it’s fine, racism over here may be enacted differently than its american counterpart, but she was a large figure in the black community, I think informing kids about these things can be very helpful
Why don’t you tell us what you think OP?
“Rosa was chosen as the face of the movement because she was more palatable than some unmarried whore who’d done the same thing almost a year earlier”
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As Rossa grew up, his life was full of unfair rules. Catholics were not allowed do the same things as Protestants, like own land or run for election. Rossa knew this wasn’t right. One day in 1865, Rossa’s newspaper, *The Irish People* was raided and shut down. Rossa was arrested for breaking the rules. Rossa was sick of rules he knew were wrong, and he beat up his prison guards any chance he got. He decided he would keep fighting however hard it became, and joined up with the Fenian Brotherhood in New York City, where he launched the dynamite campaign in the 1880s.
FTFY
That’s a book.
Kids learning about history instead of being force fed the latest Disney movie tie-in products and creating tons of plastic waste? I’ll take it.
Teaching kids about history and equality?
Terrible stuff altogether.
Andy Heasman and Co. will be storming McDonaldsis next!
Not as good as the Wacky Races toys from the 90s.
We get more accurate American history than Americans
I mean, it’s not Irish history, but it can’t be beyond the capacity of a person of normal intelligence to explain that it’s American history to their child but that it has some important lessons for everyone?
Do 1916, Mother Baby Homes, 2008 Bank Bailout by MM next 😁
But seriously what’s the point of teaching US history for Irish kids? It’s not like slavery of racial segregation was ever a thing in Ireland.
Good, hopefully it will condition the kids to be decent humans who aren’t racist
These are the Little People, Big Dreams books I presume
We have a lot of them. I’ve slightly mixed feelings as they present the person who’s the focus of the books totally uncritically which for someone who wasn’t all good like Mother Teresa annoys me. But otherwise I find them a good introduction to a wide range of real people who did interesting things.
Weird teaching American history when there are so many examples of segregation and civil disobedience in Ireland. They are an American company so that’s probably where this comes from but at the same time they already do localisation for their food and happy meals, so it wouldn’t be exceptional.
Other than that there’s no real issue, these things happened and it’s good that children be taught that they did and why so we can avoid it happening again.
Edit: wait, no. No this is terrible. Happy meals should be a distraction for the kids so the adults can have a break too. This will get them asking questions, which is the opposite of a distraction.
If you were planning to be miffed about people “standing for change” why would you request the Happy Meal with the book called “I Can Stand For Change” instead of the one about inventors called “I Can Be An Incredible Inventor”?
I prefer the wind-up wiggling milkshake toy from the 90s
Is it 2 books or did she turn into Gloria at the end?
More importantly, what do YOU think?
FAKE NEWS!
Everybody knows that it was Oisín who refused to give up his seat to a fomorian on the bus to Tír na nÓg.
It’s a good idea to be fair but if I was a child I’d be like a dog getting this in my happy meal instead of an actual toy.
I think it’s fine, racism over here may be enacted differently than its american counterpart, but she was a large figure in the black community, I think informing kids about these things can be very helpful
Why don’t you tell us what you think OP?
“Rosa was chosen as the face of the movement because she was more palatable than some unmarried whore who’d done the same thing almost a year earlier”