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发帖数: 29846 | 1 All Your Kids Are Belong to Us
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 8th, 2013 at 12:04 PM |
This is profoundly unbelievable. Professor Melissa Harris-Perry of Tulane
and MSNBC fame wants us to start treating children as property of the state.
In an MSNBC promo spot — a promo spot for a supposed news channel —
Melissa Harris-Perry says:
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have
because we’ve always had a private notion of children, your kid is yours
and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of
these are our children.
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that
kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize
that kids belong to whole communities.
Once it’s everybody’s responsibility and not just the household’s we
start making better investments.”
So kids belong to whole communities? Didn’t we fight a war back in the
1800s to prove that people weren’t owned by the state or anyone else, but
were, in fact, people? Seriously?
But take that out of it. This is amazingly stupid commentary. All of us who
own property (real property, not children) pay property taxes to fund a
public education system to educate our children. We have democratically
elected school boards to make the decisions on how to collectively educate
our kids to common, state approved standards.
It is failing spectacularly. And I suspect that the tangible efforts to
improve it, from neutering teachers unions to giving parents choices in
where to send their children, are opposed by Melissa Harris-Perry.
I never thought I’d see the day when self-styled progressives advocated the
state owning the people.
Relevant today is a good quote from Margaret Thatcher directly related to
this insipid notion of state ownership of the children.
I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been
given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the Government’s job
to cope with it. “I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.” “I’m homeless,
the Government must house me.” They’re casting their problems on society.
And you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men
and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except
through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to
look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbors. People
have got their entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There
is no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
I await the MSNBC Lean Forward commentary that we could cure hunger if only
we’d start mass production of Soylent Green. |
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