Thanks for the clarification, guys.
So then if they're mandated to show up to their jobs, what's stopping them from showing up and putting in the bare minimum of effort as a sign of protest? Not that I'd ever wish for that to happen of course; just wondering what the repercussions would be for that./
Nothing's stopping them. But that's not what they chose to do, repercussions-be-damned.
Lots of parents would prefer to avoid having that discussion with a toddler if at all possible and wait until they're exposed to it when they're older. When they're that young, there's much more supervision involved and control of their environment is easier to regulate to prevent them from hearing things that they shouldn't be hearing. Then suddenly they're a captive audience at an airport where explicit music is inescapable unless the parents happen to have a pair of headphones that their kids can wear to drown it out.
It's a lose/lose for both parties for sure. :/
It really isn't. You're overestimating kids and parents. Do you know how many times I've cussed in public only to realize there were kids around? You don't get to control when your child is exposed to anything in public (even at an airport), whether its bad words, crime, death, violence, political unrest, or any combination of the aformentioned. You hope for the best and then react.
You're also not considering how very little any of this matters to a child until the parents start freaking out about it. A young child isn't going to analyze the obscene lyrics in a song (or pay much attention to background music at a busy airport with the sensory overload they're already in the middle of) as much as people in this thread are thinking, until their parents or other adults start reacting to it.
It's the same logic behind not making a big deal of it when your young child gets hurt or falls down. They don't care until you care, because at that age they're learning how to react and what to internalize by watching Mom or Dad.
Which is why all this pearl-clutching is so absurd. The only people not thinking of the children are the people demanding we think of the children. They're just abandoning all critical thinking in order to feel better than everyone else, at the expense of any empathy towards the real victims.
And let's be honest, guys? Y'all are scrambling to protect hypothetical kids from hypothetical harm. There's no evidence any children have been negatively affected by The Accursed Rap at this airport.
