Re: Racism and political correctness.
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- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:33:56 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 13, 1:07 am, "Adam Whyte-Settlar" <ador@ble> wrote:
"Jeffrey Hamilton" <bberesf...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"The Highlander" <mich...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A Winnipeg mother whose children were seized by authorities after she
sent her daughter to school with a swastika on her arm says she
regrets redrawing the Nazi symbol after a teacher scrubbed it off.
The mother, who considers herself a white nationalist, is fighting the
child welfare system to regain custody of her daughter, 7, and son, 2.
They were taken away after the girl was sent to school with the
swastika drawn on her arm.
Four months ago, her daughter drew a swastika on her arm and went to
school, where her teacher scrubbed it off. The mother helped her
daughter draw it on her arm again, an act she regrets.
"It was one of the stupidest things I've done in my life but it's no
reason to take my kids," the mother told CBC News.
Child and Family Services case workers were alerted and went to the
family's apartment, where they found neo-Nazi symbols and flags, and
took custody of her son. Her daughter was taken from school.
In court documents, social workers say they're worried the parents'
conduct and associations might harm the emotional well-being of the
children and put them at risk.
Although she proudly wears a silver necklace that includes a swastika
and has "white pride" flags in her home, the mother, who can't be
named to avoid identifying her children, denies she's a neo-Nazi or
white supremacist.
"A black person has a right to say black power or black pride and yet
they're turning around on us and saying we're racists and bigots and
neo-Nazis because we say white pride. It's hypocrisy at its finest."
The mother has been fighting in court for four months to get back her
children, who are living with extended family. The mother can see her
children for two hours a week.
"It's been gut-wrenching. I didn't get off the couch for the first
eight days; I just cried. I laid in their bed and held their stuffed
animals and just cried. Last few nights, I've been sleeping in my
daughter's bed."
She's outraged that the police and child welfare authorities could
take her children away because of her beliefs.
"I'm willing to jump through their hoops," she said. "If they want me
to deny my beliefs, I'll tell them that, but at the same time, I'm not
a traitor to my politics, my beliefs. I just want my kids back."
Case sparks debate
The case has sparked questions about whether the state has the right
to protect children from their parents' beliefs.
University of Winnipeg professor Helmut-Harry Loewen, an expert on
hate groups, said while he disagrees with the ideology, he fears
taking custody based on beliefs is draconian.
"If children are apprehended based on parents' political or religious
beliefs, then one is opening a kind of slippery slope," he said.
But University of Manitoba professor Harvy Frankel, dean of the
faculty of social work, said officials did the right thing.
"We should be reassured that this is child welfare practice as it
should be."
If the two sides can't resolve their differences next week, they'll go
to family court, likely in the fall (autumn.)
This is an interesting case because as Canada is a multi-racial
society, the government walks a fine line between freedom of speech
and the suppression of racism. For example, at the local Highland
Games, children can be seen with the Scottish flag painted in their
faces and if anyone raised a banner marked "Scottish Pride", I imagine
that there would be no objections from the authorities.
To my mind, the suggestion of white pride is racist, because unlike
the natural pride of various ethnic groups who parade during Canada
Day, there is no element of their displays which suggests that other
racial groups are inferior, and that in my opinion crosses a line
which is unacceptable in a civilized society.
Needless to say this reaches further into the question of racism. The
many views about the English expressed in this group by many, myself
included, does make wonder where national or ethnic pride begins and
ends before it becomes racism. The US has been through the period of
"No Irish Need Apply", while some of the views recently expressed by
readers' letters in newspapers like the Daily Telegraph about the
Scots make it clear that a degree of anti-Scottish hatred is alive and
well in England, with a reciprocal reaction in Scotland, where the
very word "English" in its Gaelic form - Sasannach - is used as an
anti-English insult in southern Scotland.
The woman is a fool, pure and simple.
Noone is stopping her from having *white pride*, what authorities are
responding to, is the Swastika and other Nazi symbols.
Canada more that did her part in beating the Nazi pestilence in WWII, why
should it's regalia be allowed now ?
Because that was what the war was all about.
Political freedom.
Let the Nazi's morally bankrupt ideas and ideals destroy themselves in
public debate. Taking a woman's children away from her due to her political
beliefs (however abhorrant they might be to others)is the action of a Nazi
state.
Good point!
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