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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: rp
       Date: September 4, 2025, 3:43 am
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  HTML https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2025-09/unicef-6-million-children-out-of-school-by-2026-due-to-cuts.html
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: rp
       Date: September 27, 2025, 1:34 am
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  HTML https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/opinions/separating-families-is-americas-legacy-opinion-love
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 1, 2025, 8:13 pm
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       Watch only the first 4 minutes:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etaHTffpQb8
       Both the YouTuber and the first TikToker deserve to burn in hell
       for eternity. Anyone who disagrees is not a True Leftist.
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: rp
       Date: October 4, 2025, 12:02 am
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  HTML https://takingchildrenseriously.com/free-to-learn-the-immorality-of-compulsory-schools/
       [quote]
       Free to learn: the immorality of compulsory schools
       Christian Dean
       “The school system isn’t wrong in the sense that it’s further
       from the truth than Karl Popper. It’s wrong like the Catholic
       Church was wrong in refusing to accept Galileo’s heliocentrism
       and in locking him up so as to protect their worldview. It
       doesn’t capture any part of reality, and because of this it
       doesn’t solve any problems. In fact, it causes more problems
       than it could ever hope to solve.”
       – Christian Dean
       
       A peculiar meme seems to have dominated throughout human
       history, namely, that there always exists some demographic that
       is less than human. First it was race; then, women. Now, the
       final demographic desperately waiting for equal moral standing
       is children.
       Today, the institutional instantiation of this meme, of course,
       is the education system. From the age of five, children are
       placed on a conveyor belt—tedious for some, torturous for
       many—until they alight in possession of what authorities have
       deemed “an education”.
       Most would agree that a state of ignorance never justifies
       coercion, yet for reasons I shall explain below, this courtesy
       extends only to the point of puberty.
       A false theory of mind
       Rather than analyse the history of the school system, I think it
       more fruitful to analyse the current philosophical ideas that
       are justifying this treatment of children in the minds of
       adults. After all, we are all prone to err, but something is
       preventing this error from being corrected.
       That something, I believe, is what Sir Karl Popper called, ‘The
       Bucket Theory of Mind’. The theory is as follows:
       Knowledge can be transferred with high fidelity from one mind to
       another. In other words, the mind is like a bucket into which
       knowledge can be poured.
       As a child, I remember teachers and parents telling me that my
       brain is like a “sponge”, so it’s important to be exposed to as
       much as possible during these critical years of my life, because
       after this, learning becomes slow and arduous.
       This theory of mind, then, is the life-raft of the otherwise
       foundation-less education system. It justifies shuttling batches
       of thirty kids from classroom to classroom for the entirety of
       their youth. Exams, curricula, and age-based learning are all
       natural extensions of the belief that there is a critical age at
       which kids absorb knowledge. So too, is coercion. As it turns
       out, this theory of mind is entirely false.
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 4, 2025, 12:36 am
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       Here we go again with False Leftism. False Leftist
       anti-racism/anti-sexism was based on claiming that "white"
       supremacists/patriarchists are wrong in their assessment of
       "non-whites'"/women's ability to maintain Western civilization
       if allowed into positions of power, instead of arguing that the
       death of Western civilization ASAP is what any ethical person
       should want. Now on schooling, its claim is:
       
       --- Quote ---
       > As a child, I remember teachers and parents telling me that my
       brain is like a “sponge”, so it’s important to be exposed to as
       much as possible during these critical years of my life, because
       after this, learning becomes slow and arduous.
       >
       > This theory of mind, then, is the life-raft of the otherwise
       foundation-less education system. It justifies shuttling batches
       of thirty kids from classroom to classroom for the entirety of
       their youth. Exams, curricula, and age-based learning are all
       natural extensions of the belief that there is a critical age at
       which kids absorb knowledge. So too, is coercion. As it turns
       out, this theory of mind is entirely false.
       --- End Quote ---
       But what if it isn't? Do we then accept compulsory schooling?
       This is why I can't stand False Leftism. A convincing rejection
       of compulsory schooling must begin by assuming that all the
       benefits of compulsory schooling posited by rightists are true,
       and then arguing that all these benefits do not justify
       initiating violence. This is True Leftism.
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/childcare-issues/msg216/#msg216
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/childcare-issues/msg6195/#msg6195
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/childcare-issues/msg26888/#msg26888
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: rp
       Date: January 31, 2026, 10:19 am
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  HTML https://x.com/i/status/2017196541241352359
       (video at link)
       [Quote]
       Scientists proved that human babies aren’t born afraid of
       snakes.
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: January 31, 2026, 6:01 pm
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       The inferiority of Western scientists (compared to the prestige
       they receive from Western society) never ceases to amaze me. Why
       not simply think back to when you were a baby? Were you afraid
       of snakes? That is all you need to arrive at the same
       conclusion!
       Instead, I am worried about what violence was initiated by the
       Western scientists against the snakes in the experiment (were
       their teeth removed?) prior to them being placed in proximity to
       the babies.
       And why snakes in particular? (Not that I am requesting similar
       experiments involving other animals!!) The whole thing is just
       Western scientists projecting their own biases.
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: rp
       Date: February 21, 2026, 9:23 am
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       I saw this anarchist post on reddit:
  HTML https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/11azwcl/anarchocommunism_and_authority_parent_to_child/
       Commenters calling the OP out:
  HTML https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchy101/comments/11azwcl/comment/j9wrgj9/
       [Quote]
       1.) Everyone, including those who are not anarchists, think that
       the authorities they support are justified. This is a terrible
       definition of anarchism.
       2.) It's not absurd to suggest that child is entitled to
       autonomy any more than it would be absurd to suggest that adults
       are. Why should someone be able to "assign" duties to a child
       any more than I could "assign" you duties? Should I be able to
       tell you what time to go to bed? when and if to go to school?
       you give these examples as if it's just plainly obvious that
       children are the exception.
       "it seems obvious" doesn't seem to be "justification" which is
       what you said you would require to have authority. You wouldn't
       allow someone to have arbitrary authority over you with simply
       "it seems obvious I should" would you? so why do you accept this
       in the case of children?
       [/Quote]
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       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 21, 2026, 2:25 pm
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       The critical commenters are trying* to become consistent
       anarchists. But even if they themselves do so, how do they deal
       with those who do not?
       (* A genuinely consistent anarchist would not reproduce in the
       first place, of course.)
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       > Should I be able to tell you what time to go to bed?
       --- End Quote ---
       You should not. So if you have a child and do not tell the child
       when to go to bed, so far so good. But then you hear your
       neighbour telling their child when to go to bed. Now what? In a
       stateless society (which is what anarchists want), you would
       have to intervene personally. But what if your neighbour does
       not answer the door? Do you keep a battering ram ready for such
       scenarios? But if everyone has a battering ram, it would also
       become possible for anyone to enter neighbours' homes for
       unjustified reasons. No one would feel safe despite having a
       door. Everyone would then start reinforcing their doors to
       withstand battering rams. And then everyone would have to keep
       explosives to overcome the reinforced doors. And so on. Would it
       therefore not be less absurd to have a state, so you can just
       call the police instead (or better yet, the state provides
       alternative food/lodging/etc. for children in the first place)?
       This is why we are not anarchists. Preventing parental tyranny
       is most efficiently achieved by the state.
       What about those who do not want to live under such a state?
       They can choose to leave whenever they want, provided their
       reproductive potential is surgically removed first. Anyone
       concerned about parental tyranny, even those themselves not
       intending to reproduce anyway, should agree to this, since they
       would be aware that without this others would leave and then
       reproduce and then practice parental tyranny.
       Welcome to National Socialism.
       #Post#: 32215--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Childcare Issues
   DIR By: rp
       Date: February 21, 2026, 3:17 pm
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       "Everyone would then start reinforcing their doors to withstand
       battering rams. And then everyone would have to keep explosives
       to overcome the reinforced doors. And so on."
       Eventually this would lead to a scenario where
       capitalists/machinists (mostly "Whites" btw) end up getting away
       with parental tyranny while the poor/non-machinists (mostly "non
       Whites") do not. Which is why "Whites" (including Jews, such as
       Chomsky as the OP mentioned) support anarchism.
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