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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 11 2008, 02:55 PM (524 Views) | |
| Pestiferous | Jun 11 2008, 02:55 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingn...p-4774914c.html
This story has been in the news recently ever since a little girl was seized from her parents because she went to school with a swastika drawn on her. Police intervened, and seized a computer and various racist belongings from her parents home. While they are now making other issues, like the child's attendance at school, reasons for the kids' seizure, the school board never reported anything out of the ordinary until she came to school with drawings on her. Should parents be scared of teaching their children their beliefs, if Nazism is involved? Is teaching intolerance equivalent to harming your child emotionally? |
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| ConfusedMonkey | Jun 11 2008, 03:29 PM Post #2 |
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Yes. Their beliefs are sick and wrong.
Indirectly, yes. I really don't understand the symbols drawn on her body, it doesn't make sense for her parents to do that - perhaps she did that herself for attention? Perhaps she knew the beliefs probably weren't right, so she drew the symbols of her parents beliefs on herself to see what reaction people would get when they saw them? Mneh. |
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| stevapalooza | Jun 11 2008, 03:54 PM Post #3 |
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It sounds like the lifestyle of the parents was a bigger issue than the Nazism. Sounds like authorities saw evidence of serious neglect and acted on it. I doubt the swastikas helped, but it doesn't sound like the Nazism was the main factor. Here in the US I'm pretty sure swastikas alone would not have given authorities the right to seize the kids. Vile as Nazi beliefs are, they are also protected under the constitution. Even those crazy pioneer cultists out west were given their kids back. |
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| lori | Jun 12 2008, 05:16 AM Post #4 |
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that chick, you know
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I don't know how closely any of you deal with Child Protection or if it's just fucked up here, but they can do quite a lot (ie removal) based on very little evidence. It's sort of the sky is falling mentality and, when you get your kid back after they've spent six months in foster care or group homes, the judge may give them a verbal lashing for a lack of evidence, that's about as close as they'll get to a reprimand for the action. |
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| serendipity | Jun 12 2008, 07:08 PM Post #5 |
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although this is not quite the same thing.... my youngest son, who is 16, owns 3 shirts with the "hammer and sickle" symbol on them. he attends public school and i have never been contacted by the school about his shirts being "offensive" or "not appropriate". he's a straight A student and treasurer of his class. toward the end of this school year one of his teachers wrote on his last report card that he "seeks attention negatively". the subject of him being a communist has come up at home and i've laughed it off saying "you're not a communist"... only to be met with "YES I AM!". i figure he wasnt even born when the wall came down and all that, so he doesnt really understand the full impact of what that hammer and sickle may mean to some. then i started thinking that i wouldnt want him wearing a rebel flag or a swastika... so right now i'm on the fence on whether i should take the hammer and sickle stuff away... or not. my husband thinks it's just a phase that teenagers go through.. like heavy metal music, or long hair, like my other two boys did..... i never bugged them about the hair and within time they cut it on their own. on the flip side, he's all about john lennon... has the same hair cut and round wire rim glasses..... so peace and love on one side and the hammer and sickle on the other. as a mother, should i be concerned? or let it ride and see if it fades? |
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| ConfusedMonkey | Jun 12 2008, 09:16 PM Post #6 |
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I think your husband's right. I wouldn't worry about it - what harm can it do? He'll get over it eventually. Taking away the shirts and making it taboo will do more harm than good, I think. |
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| Pestiferous | Jun 12 2008, 09:55 PM Post #7 |
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I agree - he's not painting it on the side of your house, he's expressing it himself... The crazy commie. |
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| serendipity | Jun 13 2008, 12:48 AM Post #8 |
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the kicker is....... i bought the damn shirts. he had them on his christmas list... at first i thought i read it wrong... but he provided links to order them online. i didnt give it much thought until the "seeks attention negatively" comment on his report card.... although according to him, the comment had nothing to do with his shirts. he says he's a communist but when former president Clinton was in town and everyone was wearing their "HILARY" buttons... he came home wearing a Barack Obama tshirt that he made. i'm proud that he likes to do his own thing and not follow the crowd... i just dont want him to get into trouble, or lose a job over something so silly as saying and/or advertising the fact that he's a communist. |
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| Lea | Jun 13 2008, 08:43 AM Post #9 |
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Seren that's nothing to be ashamed of. You bought the shirts that represent who your son is right now. You know.. the teacher could have just been being a fat head. The teacher has dis-credited all that IS your son by labeling him. You're son is being himself.. that can be scary for people who don't know themselves very well to see. Maybe it's a phase and maybe it's not. But does it really matter? As long as he isn't hurting others.. and as long (and this is important) that he can accept and respect that other people may have different views than he does then he'll be fine. He's a good kid. He's smart. he'll work his way through it and find his own niche in the world. Stop stressing.
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| Evil_Henry | Jun 16 2008, 09:07 PM Post #10 |
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I think your son sounds quite intelligent and you're right to be proud of him. Looking into ideas and beliefs that aren't popular is a sign he's not afraid of what people think. Much better than a sheep, at any rate. It's almost certainly a phase but even so it's not so bad. The naive view that we should all share isn't a cause for alarm. If he starts quoting the Bible or Koran, then you can panic. |
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| serendipity | Jun 16 2008, 11:18 PM Post #11 |
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his twin sister already has that covered. he calls her and her friends "the god squad". lol |
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| stevapalooza | Jun 16 2008, 11:24 PM Post #12 |
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I wouldn't worry about the Communist thing. Most of that is skin deep. Communistica or whatever you call it is very trendy among teenagers these days. It's mostly fashion. They like the iconography and it spooks their parents enough to be considered cool. |
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| Lea | Jun 17 2008, 01:01 AM Post #13 |
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Angie was asking me questions about the war in Iraq. A few of her friends have parents who are in the military.. a few were in Iraq.. i think there was one in Afghan and another in East Timore.. anyway.. something came up about how it all started.. and I was talking about how when I was thirteen we were in the carpark of a local shopping centre and on the radio George Bush Snr came on he declared WAR. I said that was pretty scary because I'd never heard a declaration of war before. This look crossed her face.. "there is another george bush? There was another war with Iraq? That must have been a really long time ago!" "1990 actually" <_< "wow.. that was ages before I was born" hrmp |
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| Cygnus-X1 | Jun 17 2008, 02:15 AM Post #14 |
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Communistica vis-a-vis Metallica..... Master! Master! Master of the means of production, I'm making you woooork... For less pay than you need to survive... Working for me, you can't save a dime... Can't play with your kids, cuz you haven't got time... Master! Master! .... (ugh. terrible.) |
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| ConfusedMonkey | Jun 17 2008, 07:01 AM Post #15 |
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Cyg - does't that just describe your average factory worker in a 'democratic' society? |
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| Evil_Henry | Jun 17 2008, 12:37 PM Post #16 |
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It's always the stupid, unemployed ugly people who think they are part of a master race. Someone should really sit them down and explain the concept. |
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| Cygnus-X1 | Jun 17 2008, 01:57 PM Post #17 |
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Depends on the factory, Monkey. Some pay better and have better benefits than others. The advent of Unions has also improved standard of living and work conditions for many if not most factory workers, relative to the early part of the 20th Century and before. Though, to be sure, today's US economy and fiscal policies have factory workers (as well as most everyone else) living at a lower standard than the US economy of the 1950's and 1960's did. Back then, it was common for a father to work a factory job, his wife to stay home and raise the kids and for them to live pretty comfortably in that arrangement. You'd be hard-pressed to find the like today. By the by, here's an interesting fact that I used against Plague yesterday:
The Nashua Telegraph "Socialism" is still a scary word to many Americans who can remember the fear of the Cold War and the threat of Communist conquest. Many of the baby-boom generation and older still equate Socialism with Communism. But, as you know it in Europe, there's no sharp distinction between your "Socialism" and our "Populism." The only real difference is of degree. No one in my country, as yet, can have a serious chance of winning office if he were to run on the platform of an average British MP -- perhaps, not even that of a Tory. |
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| Evil_Henry | Jun 18 2008, 12:51 PM Post #18 |
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It's a pretty tragic state of affairs when the vast majority would be better off. You'd think democracy would actively lean towards socialism in the U.S. I don't think voting for policies applies so much now though. In the UK, with a cabinet minister in charge of each key area of government, most people will still only recognise Gordon Brown - and therefore vote based on how agreeable they find the leader of each party. It's a slippery slope until we have the "puppet figurehead" scenario like yourselves. My favourite was Reagan the cowboy president. :mellow: |
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| EuphemiaRuntlestuntle | Jun 18 2008, 01:24 PM Post #19 |
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With the UK at the moment, it's a fairly faceless regime with what is tantamount to having a local Halifax branch manager in charge. Not that it would be any better under the opposition, it's pretty much the same story with Nathan Barley at the helm. Canada is equally faceless. They should just annoint William Shatner as Emperor and have done with it. Reagan was great, in a Spitting Image sort of way, but I pine for The Clinton. As a sidenote, I saw that this week in North America's favourite comic-book, the National Enquirer, they had a big reveal on Bill Clinton's secret campaign mistress from the last few months. My first thought was "It was Serendipity!" But ... am I wrong? |
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| Cygnus-X1 | Jun 18 2008, 06:58 PM Post #20 |
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Reagan was a better president than Bush, in the sense that the former was better with foreign policy. But, they both doubled the national debt, essentially borrowing money from other countries to deposit into the bank accounts of the wealthiest 1% of Americans, while cutting programs for kids in need an so forth. Both Reagan and Bush were the "blissfully ignorant" type, who just ignored the unpleasant consequences of their policies. They both flouted or broke the law in order to fight wars that the American voting public were or would have been against, given all of the facts (Iran-Contra for Reagan). The main difference, aside from Reagan having handled Gorbachev well, was that Reagan respected his political adversaries, and was thus in turn respected by them, whereas Bush didn't and wasn't. And, likewise for the American and international public. They liked Reagan, for the most part, but not Bush.
Puppet figurehead? The US President has a lot of power. He's not a puppet, unless you consider Bush as an isolated case being "controlled" by the Neo-cons, Cheney, et al. |
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