Posted on 01/13/2010 5:04:08 AM PST by Stoat
Labels change over time to ensure no delicate sensitivities are bruised. That's what happened with the word "poor," as in "poor children." Poor children became "disadvantaged." They didn’t get any extra money for that, unfortunately. Now, they're "at-risk." That's not enough, say some members of the language police.
People like Washington State Democratic State Sen. Rosa Franklin, who says "We really put too many negatives on our kids... We need to come up with positive terms." Her solution? Call the kids "at hope."
Since Franklin is a politician, she wants to impose her whims on everyone else. Franklin wants the 54 places in Washington State law where words like "at risk" and "disadvantaged" are used to be rewritten.
At least one representative is putting up some resistance:
Republican Rep. Glenn Anderson disagrees, saying the potential cost of getting the bill from idea to printing — an average of $3,500 — is too much. And besides, he says, he is insulted more by the idea of the bill than what he called the political correctness it represents.
"It's not the label, it's the people who show up to help (children) that make the difference," he says. "What helps is a smart, well structured program."
Nice try, but apparently not good enough. Politically correct language with no substance scratches liberals where they itch:
The bill has gotten a warm welcome among fellow lawmakers, state officials and advocacy groups...
"At least we'll hear the voices of the young people," said Democratic Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, who promised the bill would get a hearing.
Wally Endicott, the northwest director of the Phoenix-based Children of Hope, says he was excited to talk to Franklin about the bill.
But he is not thrilled with the idea of using "children at hope" to refer just to the disadvantaged. His group uses the concept to talk about all kids, not just those in poverty, because all children have obstacles to their success.
Renaming all kids “children at hope” rates a label of its own: "Stupid."
Oh, wait......
“Children at hope” Washington ping.
“sigh”
How about “hopeless children.”
lmao
“Children at hope”
I wonder when the children who are TRUE victims of murder (abortion) will be called “children of hope”? Because their lives were TAKEN AWAY from them, does that make them any less important?
ha!
Well, you know the answer to that one. To the child-murdering Left, if a woman wants to abort her baby...err, excuse me, “mass of unviable tissue matter” then such ‘tissues’ have no relevance unto themselves. It’s all about a Leftist woman’s ‘choice’, after all. (and convenience, and depravity, and immorality and.....)
My kids are “at risk”.
They are at risk of having any hope for a prosperous life and future thanks to the nitwits in D.C.
Now, if I were a true believing leftist,
would I actually believe that changing what these children are called would improve their situation?
312 Legislative Building
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Olympia Office: (360) 786-7656
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Sen. Rosa Franklin
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Olympia, WA 98504-0429
Rick Manugian, Senate Democrats Communications Specialist
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Annette Swillie, Legislative Assistant
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“My kids are “at risk”.
They are at risk of having any hope for a prosperous life and future thanks to the nitwits in D.C.”
My 17 year old daughter says she doesn’t want to pay for this mess. How come she gets it that we are mortgaging the future of our kids and the idiots in the state and federal gov’t don’t? Rhetorial question....
I would wish to politely disagree on the grounds that because you are a FReeper and as such you are sane and considerably more intelligent than the mind-numbed sheep in this country, your kids will have a much greater chance of escaping much of the devastation that the Left intends to wreak upon this nation. :-)
And this is a new thing because in the past, children had no such obstacles.
Insanity reigns!
Well, if you were a true believing Leftist you would believe in obvious untruths such as "America is inherently Evil", "Karl Marx really had it going on" and "Everyone else should pay my way", so my guess would be yes, at that point your mind would be so corrupted that you could believe most anything the Dems told you.
And this is a new thing because in the past, children had no such obstacles.
Insanity reigns!
Nutburger Utopian Socialism reigns
Fixed it for you ;-)
It’s hard to imagine what the world would look like through the lens of lies that liberals look through every day.
I liken it to CS Lewis writing “The Screwtape Letters” - he said it was so psychologically exhausting that he had to eschew a sequel.
Oh, Pu-LEZE! Slapping a 'progressive' label on anyone doesn't change a thing, but to Democrats, eradicating negativity is the method they use to keep everyone exactly where they are.
Why work if your needs are met? Why try to better yourself if your surrounded by positive attitudes?
The simple fact is that adversity shapes character, but there's no need to put any effort out to change your condition if the world is already full of sunshine and rainbows.
I think that it was Rush who has said several times that being a liberal is the easiest thing in the world....nothing is your fault, you aren't responsible for anything, you never have to say you're sorry and as long as you say that you care and pay for things with other people's money in the name of 'caring', then you can view yourself as having the moral high ground.
It's Conservatism that is the difficult path, as it requires personal responsibility, a dedication to 'actually' doing the right thing and a sense of Patriotism and an interest in the Constitution and human history. It takes effort and time to learn true History and to understand what works and what doesn't....far more effort than simply doing things because they feel good and sound good i.e. the liberal way.
Read Genesis 3:4-5, and you’ll see the basis of liberalism.
No consequences. You’ll be smart enough to be your own god, accountable to none, and you may decide right and wrong for yourself.
Indeed, and this is all part of the plan. If children can be reared in the liberal Gulag to be utterly unable to deal with reality because they have been so mollycoddled in their formative years, the Left will have spawned unending generations of Leftist voters because they will have no one else to turn to but a Government that promises cradle-to-grave hand-holding.
A self-perpetuating Soviet Hell.
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