Another fine example of the constant erosion of virtue in society, brought to us by the usual suspects who seem to have a great distaste for naturalism and the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Anyway...
"As a parent and a leftist, I find this assault on parents and nuclear families to be the height of self-serving and self-defeating intellectual masturbation.
A perfect example of this mindless mania is a recent tweet from Noah Berlatsky, a pissant provocateur and philosophical poseur who writes for the Guardian and the Atlantic magazine. Berlatsky whined, “parents are tyrants. ‘parent’ is an oppressive class, like rich people or white people.”
He followed that belch into the woke echo chamber with this equally odious one: “There are things you can try to do to minimize the abuse that’s endemic to the parent/child relationship, but it’s always there.”
Sadly, Berlatsky’s buffoonery is not an outlier, as this anti-family mindset is rampant among the woke left. Examples of this absurd agenda being aggressively pushed abound.
Black Lives Matter, the standard bearer for woke, fact-free, emotion-fueled idiocy in 2020, and which has garnered establishment support and millions in corporate donations, not only declare that they want to “abolish police,” but also “abolish the family.”
Flagship left-wing publications like the Nation, Vice, and Jacobin have all in recent months and years dedicated time and energy to the malignant anti-family cause.
In addition, Sophie Lewis, a self-described “feminist thinker,” which she proves is an oxymoron, has made a name for herself attacking the nuclear family in her book ‘Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against the Family’.
Lewis, an Oxford-educated bulls**t artist, uses pretentious language and provocative statements to camouflage her laughably pubescent arguments.''
An example of Lewis’ utopianist jackassery is found in her article, ‘The Coronavirus Crisis Shows It’s Time to Abolish the Family’, where her “logical” approach to combat the virus is revealed as, “Free all prisoners and detainees now… and dismiss all the workers with full pay so they can… pursue laziness for at least the next decade.”
Lewis likes tilting at windmills as evidenced by her desire to “denaturalize the mother-child bond” and to promote “the idea that babies belong to anyone – the idea that the product of gestational labor gets transferred as property to a set of people.”
Lewis further reveals her intellectual obtuseness and foolish anti-family fanaticism by declaring, “even when the private nuclear household poses no direct physical or mental threat to one’s person – no spouse-battering, no child rape, and no queer-bashing – the private family qua mode of social reproduction still, frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalizes and races us… It makes us believe we are ‘individuals.’”
Individuals? Perish the thought!
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The woke left are demonizing parents and want to abolish the family. It’s the intellectual equivalent of a toddler’s tantrum
That is what they said about us kids in the 1970's. They described us as parent hating, Satan worshipping rock-n-roll sex maniacs, long haired hippie freaks who never worked or bathed along with the attempt to also claim since we smoked weed we got the munchies and ate our babies(don't forget how we were ruined by watching TV)......True story...This type of generational gap fuckery is still going on and it is stupid...
You will get farther when you try not to demonize everyone not like yous..I have kids aged 36 to 18 and what you state in the OP is all gender/age gap bullshit..
I had never heard of any of these supposedly mainstream thinkers, but fringe thinkers have been calling for an end to the nuclear family since I was a kid. Nobody's really listening to them. As a genuine card-carrying leftist, I have always known that the "family" is the foundation of the economy the world over.
But I also find the concerns of conservatives for the American family to be completely disingenuous. First off, their definition of "family" is always a straight white married middle-class couple. Single parents are distained, as are working class families. Conservatives decry the number of "fatherless" children in the inner city, even as they lock up young black adult males at increasingly higher numbers, and with minimum sentencing, ensuring that any children they leave behind will grow up fatherless.
The persistent denial of same sex couples and their children as "families", or single parent families is endemic. Look at who is barred from admittance at "Christian" schools. I've had numerous American parents tell me that they enrolled their children at a "Christian school" so they wouldn't have to go to school with black students.
Conservatives are very big on middle class, educated women staying home with their children, to give them the best possible start in life, and even bigger on poor mothers taking on as many jobs as they need to in order to provide for their children, without providing her with mandated vacations or maternity leave like every other first world nation. Think of the impact of Donald Trump cancelling Obama's overtime regulations on poor families whose parents work 60 hour weeks with no overtime.
The USA has the highest rates of both maternal death as a result of childbirth, and infant mortality in the first world. These statistics are shameful in a nation which purports to have the "best medical system in the world". While that may not be true, it is true that the USA is the richest nation in the world, and the issue of maternal deaths and infant mortality can both be solved by universal government funded health care, which you claim you can't afford.
You can afford the biggest baddest military the world has ever seen. You can afford to send a man to to the moon. You can afford to give billionaires tax break after tax break, but you can't afford health care for mothers and their newborn babies. At the same time trying to ban legal, safe abortion and return to a system of orphanages, and back alley abortions.
Yeah, tell me again how it's liberal policies that are destroying families.