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Column: California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity
Yahoo News ^ | Joe Mathews

Posted on 01/14/2022 6:05:17 AM PST by cuz1961

If California is ever going to achieve true equity, the state must require parents to give away their children.

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Fathers and mothers with greater wealth and education are more likely to transfer these advantages to their children, compounding privilege over generations.

As a result, children of less advantaged parents face an uphill struggle, social mobility has stalled, and democracy has been corrupted.

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My solution — making raising your own children illegal — is simple, and while we wait for the legislation to pass, we can act now: the rich and poor should trade kids, and homeowners might swap children with their homeless neighbors.

Now, I recognize that some naysayers will dismiss such a policy as ghastly, even totalitarian. But my proposal is quite modest, a fusion of traditional philosophy and today’s most common political obsessions.

In his “Republic,” Plato adopted Socrates’ sage advice — that children “be possessed in common, so that no parent will know his own offspring or any child his parents” — in order to defeat nepotism, and create citizens loyal not to their sons but to society.

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My proposal also should be politically unifying, ...

The left’s introduction of anti-racism and gender identity in schools faces a bitter backlash from parents.

( cuz61- notice the weasel the author pulls by reffering to ' the left' as if his ideas aren't as totalitarian left as it gets !)

Ending parenthood would end the backlash, helping dismantle white supremacy and outdated gender norms. Democrats also would have the opportunity to build a new pillar of the safety net — a child-raising system called “Foster Care for All.”

Over on the right, Republicans are happy to jettison parents’ rights in pursuit of their greatest passions, like violating migrant rights.

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(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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I had to get this down to 300 words, the rest of the article is just as bad. This us who they are. Nuts.
1 posted on 01/14/2022 6:05:17 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

This is who they are
( not us )


2 posted on 01/14/2022 6:06:51 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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“homeowners might swap children with their homeless neighbors. “

What’s nuts about wanting children to give up a nice secure and safe home and go live in some meth tent city with deranged addicts? Check your uppity privilege bro.


3 posted on 01/14/2022 6:09:41 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: cuz1961

It was part of the program all along.


4 posted on 01/14/2022 6:11:54 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: cuz1961

Very Swiftian: “this proposal is quite modest,”

Look up “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift which also dealt with children

the lost art of satire. sigh


5 posted on 01/14/2022 6:13:06 AM PST by Strident (< null >)
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To: cuz1961

That is an old communist idea.

Israel tried it.

But humans are funny, we often want to raise our kids. It is wired into us.


6 posted on 01/14/2022 6:13:45 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: cuz1961

He’s trying to channel Jonathan Swift but this is a muddled mess. By the way, it was the Obama administration that started separating illegal immigrant children from the adults they were with. Genetic testing revealed a staggering THIRTY PERCENT of those children were not genetically related to the adult(s) they were with. Human trafficking anyone?


7 posted on 01/14/2022 6:14:03 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: cuz1961

Problem is they are dead serious. They are also insane - refusing to acknowledge nature as it has been ever since people appeared on the face of the Earth.


8 posted on 01/14/2022 6:17:49 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: cuz1961

This has always been a Democrat goal.

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.


9 posted on 01/14/2022 6:18:29 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: cuz1961

Is this supposed to be satire?


10 posted on 01/14/2022 6:18:49 AM PST by rbg81
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gtfo!!! who IS this guy? Is writing from an asylum ( haha i know the crazies are out amoungst us now)


11 posted on 01/14/2022 6:19:11 AM PST by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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I’m a touch surprised that this did not come from the Babylon Bee, lol.


12 posted on 01/14/2022 6:23:43 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: cuz1961
a recent Public Policy Institute of California poll found declining belief in the notion that you can get ahead through hard work.
Like most things in his life the author did not work hard in creating this article and it shows.
13 posted on 01/14/2022 6:25:07 AM PST by artichokegrower (I )
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LOL! (It’s supposed to be funny, right? This guy IS joking, right....?)


14 posted on 01/14/2022 6:26:00 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Don't take it personally. I just get bored really easily. )
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To: FLT-bird

He’s trying to channel Jonathan Swift but this is a muddled mess

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Well put.


15 posted on 01/14/2022 6:26:26 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: cuz1961

I honestly thought that was the Babylon Bee.


16 posted on 01/14/2022 6:26:27 AM PST by freedumb2003 (What’s the point in drumming up anarchy if you don’t use it to promote tyranny. /BenLurkin 12/21)
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Read about the Sansdemic - loss of people. Our birth rate is on a negative track that cannot be turned around. There won’t be any kids in the future.


17 posted on 01/14/2022 6:30:46 AM PST by EC Washington
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To: FLT-bird; Strident
He’s trying to channel Jonathan Swift but this is a muddled mess.

I think that the two of you got it right that he is attempting to 'channel' Swift but swift he isn't! This line is the giveaway methinks; "But my proposal is quite modest, a fusion of traditional philosophy and today’s most common political obsessions."

None-the-less, I would like to see (would that it were possible) how many in Crazyfornia would mull over this with a degree of approval. I caution that it would be unwise to dismiss this as absurd, given what we see from the "Iron Pyrite State" of late!

18 posted on 01/14/2022 6:31:00 AM PST by SES1066 (quires )
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To: cuz1961

Those who are unequal are not equal because they are at root unequal to their betters.

At least half the population serves as better to the lower unequal half.

The unending quest for equity is futile on a macro scale


19 posted on 01/14/2022 6:31:05 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) California needs Zorro to destroy the neoNobility corruption)
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To: Scarlett156

As if Yahoo News could tell the difference…


20 posted on 01/14/2022 6:34:08 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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