02-08-2014, 03:06 PM
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Originally posted by EightFingers
Parents have no business educating their children. Thank goodness we have the government to step in and do it.
There are lots of kids out there who aren't getting parented. These are the underserved kids that are the most at-risk. It's all very convenient to say "But not MY [white, middle-class, 2-parent-household] child!" Asking to pull programs like these because of personal outrage and prudery is just one more example of white privilege at work.
I hear all these cruel, classist, racist complaints about poor people of color on EBT having lots of babies - well, would classes like this have helped? Or are you just subconsciously aware that the very denial of services and adequate education continues to keep the lower class mute, ignorant, and in their place so your comfortable seat of middle-class choice and privilege will continue to be safely in place?
This thread is making me fuming mad. I'm bowing out.