You might think from these stories that the American system of child protection is superior to the German. In one case children are protected from thuggish parents, in the other they are whisked away from loving parents by jackbooted thugs. However, that’s not quite the whole story. There’s something to detest in either case.
First, to Germany:
Meanwhile, Back in the Fatherland…
Because they were home-schooled, the German judge was concerned that “the children would grow up in a parallel society without having learned to be integrated or to have a dialogue with those who think differently and facing them in the sense of practicing tolerance.” So, he ordered the State to seize well adjusted children from caring parents, because at some indeterminate future date, and based on a moronic hypothetical, they might not have been properly assimilated by the State.
If you accept the German judge’s definition of child abuse, you’ll be in agreement with the Progressive tyrants in this country who vilify home-schooling and want to criminalize it. He just stated their case succinctly. They think it’s your child’s job to help civilize the teenager the toddler in our next story is going to become.
Here’s a “parallel society” in the United States from which children were forcibly removed:
Cursing toddler: See why this ‘thug’ video is shocking the nation
The twist is, after this video was posted on the internet, some people called it racist. Not the activity in the video, the act of posting it. Think about that, who thought it was a good idea to make the video in the first place?
No, the video itself is not racist, but some Americans consider exposing child abuse to be racist based on the melanin content of the participants. Those people are the actual racists. They’d have been cheering former MSNBC host Martin Bashir on were he to have shown a similar video of Jews or Japanese.
In America revealing a 2 minute home video of black family dysfunction is cited as evidence of racism, but if you have hours of white dysfunction you make it into a television series and call it Honey Boo Boo.