MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: America’s “kids belong to their communities”

MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: America’s “kids belong to their communities”. “Once it’s everybody’s responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments.” Of course, just like “green energy”, it will be “everybody’s” responsibility to supply the money for people like her to “invest”, mostly in themselves and their cronies. Funny how that works out.

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  • Well, sounds like it's time for a new book titled: It Take a Village of Idiots to Raise a Village of Idiots.

  • I sent this story to the Editor because I couldn't believe it. It is so insane to me that she would actually said that and say it with a straight face. She actually does believe what she says. I don't understand the people that claim that what happens in your house is your business actually believe that children belong to the state (which is in essence what she really meant). The people that say that abortion and infanticide is okay believes that if the child makes it (lives) then they belong to the state. It is terrible.

    • She is advocating forced collectivism. That is she believes the state has every right to FORCE you and me to turn over our children to the state for a "proper education". This is straight out of the Manifesto. These people don't even hide anymore. They believe they've already won. Sad thing is that a lot of parents would be fine with this. It would relieve them of the burden of raising their kids and installing any sort of family or individual values. In essence, this is how it can end for good here. Think of how in Stalinist Russia children were strongly encouraged to denounce their patents as anti-Soviet. It can happen here despite Upton Sinclair's prediction.

      • There are a lot of lazy parents and then those that arent like the german family i spoke of on the top of this thread will be heavily persecuted.

  • Looks like this useless liberal (I won't use the C word) is trying out for "Dear Leader's" minister of education. Only a matter of time before they start grabbing people's children to "educate them properly". No wonder they want the people disarmed, this hosebag should be shot.

    • You're right, if the state rules that children "belong to the community" than private schools, religious schools and home schooling can be outlawed as a danger to the "correct" upbringing of kids. It was Karl Marx who stated that public education should be universal and mandatory.

      Don't want any of those little heads being filled with incorrect thoughts.

      Ms Harris-Perry's ideas are totalitarian and profoundly un-American, so it's no surprise she's on MSNBC.

      • John Dewey is a god in progressive circles because of his effort to shape American public education. His method was to have teachers direct the students to pre-determined outcomes, results, and concepts.

  • Every totalitarian regime believes that children belong to the "collective". They don't want children "infected" with ideas and beliefs not approved by the state. That's why children in Nazi Germany were forced into the Hitler Jugend and in Soviet Russia into the Young Communist League. It's also why both nazis and communists banned private education.

  • My sons don't belong to any damn community. They are my responsibility not the communities, the local, state or federal government. This is right out of Mao's Little Red Book.

    It's an attempt to have parents to resend their parental rights and responsibilty to the government. If this is being taught to any child, it's upon the parents to stand in the indoctornators face and tell them in a very loud and distinct voice Hell No!

    • The thing is that kids are being given information in school that if they are disciplined by their parents, they can call family services, and they will come "save" them from mommy and daddy.
      My stepson once said F#$* You to his mother, I jacked him up against the fridge and told him if he did it again, I would beat the shit out of him. He said "go ahead, I'll call family services". I handed him the phone and said "Call them now, maybe they'll get here in time to see me kicking your ass!" He was good for 6 months after that.

          • But I'm always intrigued by our village idiot who claims to be a libertarian while telling us that corporations should be restricted on how greedy they can get.

            It's like looking at an optical illusion and trying to figure out how it works.

          • Crowley-Libertarian? Nope, Crowley is a pretend Libertarian, his postings are pure occupopper liberal drivel. He is a fake as an Obama budget, and as clueless as Joe Biden. Think the kid, without the ability to play the banjo, in the movie Deliverance. And with one eye in the middle of his forehead, a product of his parents being brother and sister and on the government tit for decades. Crowley is just a welfare-beast and always will be. Trailer park trash does not get any better than Creepy Crowley.

          • My dealings with daftards in the past several months has brought to my attention the idea that 'libertarian' was first used to differentiate a segment of very much left wing socialism from everything else. Our dimwit qualifies in this categorically. In the course of bruising my brain contesting the morons, I turned to wikipeedeeah, since they had thrust it into the arguments. There, I found this excerpt:
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            Libertarian socialism is a western philosophy with diverse interpretations, though some general commonalities can be found in its many incarnations. Its proponents generally advocate a worker-oriented system of production and organization in the workplace that in some aspects radically departs from neoclassical economics in favor of democratic cooperatives or common ownership of the means of production (socialism).[27] They propose that this economic system be executed in a manner that attempts to maximize the liberty of individuals and minimize concentration of power or authority (libertarianism).
            August 17, 1860 edition of libertarian Communist publication Le Libertaire edited by Joseph Déjacque.

            Libertarian socialists are strongly critical of coercive institutions, which often leads them to reject the legitimacy of the state in favor of anarchism.[28] Adherents propose achieving this through decentralization of political and economic power, usually involving the socialization of most large-scale private property and enterprise (while retaining respect for personal property). Libertarian socialism tends to deny the legitimacy of most forms of economically significant private property, viewing capitalist property relations as forms of domination that are antagonistic to individual freedom.[29][30]

            The first anarchist journal to use the term "libertarian" was La Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social and it was published in New York City between 1858 and 1861 by French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque.[31] "The next recorded use of the term was in Europe, when "libertarian communism" was used at a French regional anarchist Congress at Le Havre (16–22 November 1880). January the following year saw a French manifesto issued on "Libertarian or Anarchist Communism." Finally, 1895 saw leading anarchists Sébastien Faure and Louise Michel publish La Libertaire in France."[31] The word stems from the French word libertaire, and was used to evade the French ban on anarchist publications.[32] In this tradition, the term "libertarianism" in "libertarian socialism" is generally used as a synonym for anarchism, which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence "libertarian socialism" is equivalent to "socialist anarchism" to these scholars.

          • Yes. IMO, we are conflating libertarianism with classical liberalism. Free market economics and an individual-centric viewpoint is the antithesis of what your passage suggests.

          • I find that many liberals say Libertarian comes from the root of Liberal, when it really comes from the root Liberty.
            Classic case of not seeing things through to the logical conclusion, or not being able to see beyond the tip of their nose.

          • I have no idea what the word was used for in the past, but ever since I've been calling myself one, it has meant obeying the Constitution, enjoying the freedoms that it guarantees, and not stepping on the toes of others. Something the Republicrats can't seem to grasp.

        • Now I'm glad I got up early this morning. That was a good turd.

          TD,...................MO.

          • A good turd in the morning is always good, but when you can dump it on Crowley, it means it will be a great day!

        • No, he's mad that you're such a fucking clueless idiot.
          He's now a successful salesman, supplying electronics components to greedy corporations. You would hate him.

          • Poppajoe49,

            Good for you. I probably wouldve dialed the phone for him, kicked his ass, thrown him and his stuff out the door so Family Services wouldn't need to bother with coming in.

  • Truth is, in most communities, kids are a nuisance. Sorry, parents, but they're YOUR problem. Governments don't really like them either because they don't pay taxes and cost them a lot in benefits and tax deductions. (This is also why governments don't particularly like the elderly).
    Today, no matter how hard you try, it's impossible to erase eight hours of public school ideology over dinner. The government is winning this battle.

  • Hmm... this seems to be a rhetorical vector toward an end game where any attempts to undo liberal brainwash in the young will constitute child abuse.