Confirmation bias is never as strong as when we are trying to confirm the basic worldview we receive from our parents. I was never taught that there could be anything to prevent me from getting everything I wanted, and as a result, all I ever found was proof that everything was within my reach.
Of course, there are also people who believe that children need to be informed as often as possible and in great detail about all kinds of injustices, sexism, racism, anti-semitism, etc that await them once they grow up. They remind me of this fellow back in the USSR who beat his small children to a bloody pulp on regular occasions, telling them that this was his way of preparing them for the world where violence was awaiting them around every corner. This man was justifying his sadism with a self-serving speech about looking out for his kids. And the folks who use words instead of fists to turn children into scared and insecure creatures are not that different.
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