MSNBC Host: All Your Kids Belong To Us
Now your kids don’t belong to you, they belong to the “whole community”!
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On March 23, my colleague Mark Finkelstein noted how MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry considers the unborn child a “thing” which takes a “lot of money” to “turn into a human,” costing thousands of dollars to care for each year of his/her life. Now it appears that Harris-Perry thinks that, after they’re born, children fundamentally belong to the state.
Narrating a new MSNBC “Lean Forward” spot, the Tulane professor laments that we in America “haven’t had a very collective notion that these are our children.” “[W]e have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to their communities,” Harris-Perry argued.
“Once it’s everybody’s responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments.” By “investments,” of course, Harris-Perry means things like spending “as much in public education as we should have.”
Of course, if as Harris-Perry holds,”[t]he cost to raise a child [is] $10,000 a year up to $20,000 a year,” and if children should be viewed as collectively “owned” by “society,” then taken to its logical extension, a woman’s choices about having a child should be informed by the economic considerations of the “community,” would it not? But of course, that logic would take someone to justify, for example, the “one-child” policy in Communist China.
What’s more, the notion of collective responsibility for children was a philosophy that undergirded the Cultural Revolution in Communist China under Chairman Mao. I bring that up because, as you may recall, another Harris-Perry “Lean Forward” spot contains a reference to a “great leap forward,” which calls to mind the disastrous agricultural reform plan which starved millions of Chinese to death in the 1950s.
Good Grief!!! NOW she tells me!! I spent all of those years feeling it was MY responsibility to raise 3 children & didn’t even consider that all of this ‘help’ was willing & able to carry that load (blessing)with & for me!!! Just imagine the grief (joy) that would’ve saved me……To be honest, it sounds like Harris-Perry is trying to justify her own lack of nuturing & guidence in her youth. Granted the amount (I) spend on welfare through taxes ‘feels like’ a whole bunch of kiddos must be my responsibility…IF that’s the case, am I allowed to correct & discipline them???
With regard to her coomment on China’s agriculture reform: I am, again, reminded that we,too, are attempting to do just that, by accepting Gentically Altered products to hit our grocery shelves & futher ‘experimentation’by companies like Dow Chemical through passage of SB 510 a couple of years ago.
Good piece, Cindi, as usual
Jan… an interesting little detail has been revealed about Melissa Harris-Perry… she is a Rev. Wright apostle as well! https://www.conservativenewscentral.com/2013/04/another-rev-wright-apostle-revealed-all-your-kids-belong-to-us-msnbc-host/
hmmmm didn’t know that, why am I not suprized?? You’d think by now I’d know the 2nd verse to this tired song. Megan Kelly (FOX) has discussed it for 2 days now to include the new “commercial’ We should email or tweet her on this (I don’t do tweet/twitter) Her outrage is visible & she pointed out the contridictions between pro choice & all children being an entire community’s responsibility. This song ‘they’ keep singing is worse thatn ’99 bottles of beer on the wall,,,,at least that one does stop
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