Dunno how people can read dozens of tweets on this app every day of parents treating their children as property or objects and conclude there isn't a rot in our ideas of parenthood.
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"he worded the tweet extremely" is garbage and I don't buy it. We have an entire contingent of "leftists" on this website that don't want anything but the most basic social reforms.
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It's the measurement discourse all over again. People seized on a tweet that they found superficially ridiculous and used it as an excuse to not think about it interrogate how even something as fundamental to our existence as measurements can contribute to oppressions.
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So no, most of the people being shit about this were not going to regard the idea of parenthood being a tyrannical institution with any more respect if Noah had hedged his rhetoric at all. Come off it.
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Of course treating a child like property is abusive. But that isn't what was said. The above says that parent/child is inherently abusive on it's face. Which....ok, so every single person that exists is abused and every single person that has ever had offspring is an abuser?
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It reads like a satirical post even if it’s mostly true. Communal parenting is a good
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I mean, yes and no. There are bad people in a community. More like it's currently a crap-shoot whether you wind up with good parents or bad, good community members or bad. The system would need a huge overhaul to prevent the potential for abuse and IDK how that would work.
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I saw someone on a politics subreddit claim that anarchism doesn't work bc some hierarchies are necessary, like parent/child and teacher/student. I asked them why, and they absolutely lost it. Extremely weird that simply asking the question is enough to set some people off
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reminds me of how many times somebody became incredibly abusive when I questioned the efficacy of spanking children. yeah, sure, you turned out fine...
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