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Children Are Not Property The idea that underlies the right-wing campaign for “parents’ rights.” (BARF)
NYMAG ^ | 4/14/2023 | SARAH JONES

Posted on 04/14/2023 2:35:07 PM PDT by bitt

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” the Book of Proverbs says. To certain right-wing Christians, the concept is simple: A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal. Though all parents hope they’ll pass their values onto their children, for some that hope is more of a mandate. My own parents believe that Proverbs is the word of God, and they believed, too, that a righteous upbringing would produce an adult in their image. Who can blame them? The idea that a child should replicate her parents does not belong only to conservative Christianity or to religion at all. A proverb is common wisdom, and lately this one is hard to escape. Authoritarianism is gospel to modern conservatives. Nowhere is that clearer than in their assaults on children.

The “parental rights” movement is not new, but it is enjoying a resurgence. Adherents say they’re protecting children from harm, broadly defined. After an art teacher at a Florida charter school showed students a picture of Michelangelo’s David, parental complaints forced out the principal. Members of Moms for Liberty call for book bans across the country; books with LGBT content are at special risk of removal. The architects of state bans on gender-affirming care for minors say, falsely, that children are at risk from predatory physicians and activists. A “gender cult” destroys families, claimed conservative commentator Matt Walsh. “The child they held as a baby and raised and gave their lives to and loved and still love becomes, suddenly, unrecognizable,” he said. “I would rather be dead than have that happen to my kids.” The real sin isn’t that trans youth will suffer but that the parental grip might loosen.

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To: ConservativeInPA

When did I say that?


41 posted on 04/14/2023 3:37:51 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

42 posted on 04/14/2023 3:40:34 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

Who’s the smiler? He looks happy lol.


43 posted on 04/14/2023 3:42:39 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: bitt

Translation: Children are not parents property, they belong to the Leftists


44 posted on 04/14/2023 3:48:37 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: ridesthemiles

The State is pursuing absolute power over other people’s daughters and sons.


45 posted on 04/14/2023 3:53:05 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: bitt

Parental rights derive from the fact that the parent is responsible for their children. If you are responsible for their actions and their care, then you must have the rights that allow them to make the decisions that the children are incapable of making. The state would not allow you to get your underage children drunk or drugged. But the state can make life altering decisions for your children and you are not consulted? I remember when a school would not give your children an aspirin because of liability. But they’ll council your children to mutilate themselves and there’s no liability? I’m pretty sure that if a parent did something like that to their children just, say five years ago, that parent would be facing prison. But the school can do it? The school can arrange for an abortion without the parent’s consent and there’s no liability? (And, possibly, just this opinion is enough to put me on an FBI watch list.)


46 posted on 04/14/2023 3:53:59 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: bitt

LibSpeak for “Children Are Not (YOUR) Property (they are OURS).


47 posted on 04/14/2023 4:03:55 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: bitt

They want to destroy Christianity and parental authority.


48 posted on 04/14/2023 4:06:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: bitt

The push to grant mentally confused children the right to mutilate their bodies keeps growing in Progressive fronts. I presume the aim is to to grant children the “right” to have sex. California recently made it legal for 14 year olds to have sex, if sex “partner” is less than 10 or 11 years older.


49 posted on 04/14/2023 4:07:19 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Extremely wise.


50 posted on 04/14/2023 4:09:14 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: bitt

NYMAG. /eyeroll


51 posted on 04/14/2023 4:19:22 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Truth.


52 posted on 04/14/2023 4:33:07 PM PDT by avenir ("They sang His praise...they soon forgot His works")
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To: Ge0ffrey

Teachers are delegated the task of education by the parents.
They are employees, nothing more.

If they get out of line they need to be removed from the job—and parents need to step up and do the task themselves.


53 posted on 04/14/2023 4:45:19 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: bitt

Then parents shoukdn’t be held legally liable for them and what they do, then.


54 posted on 04/14/2023 5:02:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

Ms. Jones is utterly fooked in the head.


55 posted on 04/14/2023 6:16:54 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: bitt

“gender-affirming care for minors”

I wonder which Goebbels wannabe originated that propaganda gem. It’s like saying Auschwitz and Treblinka provided “Aryan-affirming care”.


56 posted on 04/14/2023 6:40:15 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: BobL

I didn’t break mine. I reared them to high standards and values.


57 posted on 04/14/2023 6:48:22 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: ChessExpert

I will have to say, then, I’m part of the problem. It is an honor to serve.


58 posted on 04/14/2023 6:49:51 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: bitt

Typical MARXIST ideology re the State replacing the parents. Once that happens, the marxist indoctrination and brainwashing begins.

See: M. L. Kaliningrad. “On Communist Education: Selected Speeches and Articles”, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953.

See page 76-82, II. “The Teacher’s Main Task Is To Bring Up The New Man, The Citizen of Socialist Society”.

Also see Joseph Stalin, “Foundations of Leninism”, International Publishers, NY, 1939 and V. I. Lenin, “ The State and Revolution”, Foreign Language Press, Peking, 1965 reprint.

CRT, Equity, Reparations, Wokeness, and indoctrination are MARXIST tactics and techniques to separate children from their parents, make MARXIST teachers “in locis parenti”, and start the brainwashing at an early age.

Don’t just “brush up on your Shakespeare”, brush up heavily on marxism/socialism and wokeism.


59 posted on 04/15/2023 12:33:04 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: bitt

“books with LGBT content are at special risk of removal”

Also known as kiddie porn


60 posted on 04/15/2023 3:08:20 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s should go to Mexico and sneak over the border. )
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