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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

All Your Kids Are Belong to Us

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?.... I never thought I’d see the day when self-styled progressives advocated the state owning the people……To Read More…..

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