If you cancel yourself after being cancelled, do you get to just start all over again ?
Snakes on a Jumbo jet.
Cancel Child Abuse?
And the org that is behind the let us work this out in the community because we know best, despite overwhelming drugs, guns and violence in our communities that the police and low level community job non-profits havenât been able to stop.
The child welfare system is predicated on the subjugation, surveillance, control, and punishment of mostly poor Black and Native children and families. We more accurately refer to this as the family policing system.* The system and its supporters portray family policing as a legitimate, supportive helping systemâone that protects the safety and well-being of children through necessary state-sanctioned interventions. But the history and reality of the systemâs impact on the lives of children, families, and communities underscores the ways in which the system functions to maintain anti-Blackness, White supremacy, racial capitalism, and colonialism. We can collectively do better.
How We endUP puts forth ideas about how we can, in community, improve support and care for children, youth, and families as we move towards the abolition of family policing. These ideas are intertwined and address what must be dismantled as well as what must be created and supported. This is not a prescription with detailed policy and practice recommendationsâwe believe that work must be done within communities. Our intention is to contribute to work already occurring and provoke new actions and innovations from others. We invite you to build on these ideas, share with us the actions you are undertaking, and let us know ideas we missed.
*We use the term family policing system to refer to what has more commonly been known as the child welfare system. We believe this term more accurately captures the roles this system plays in the lives of families, which include surveillance, regulation, and punishment, all roles associated with policing rather than childrenâs welfare. These roles are used to maintain the control and oppression of Black, Native, and Latinx families, which is also consistent with the practice of policing.
As long as Iâm here, let me see if thereâs anything in the news about why this is a bad bad bad idea:
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Discipline in âthe systemâ (school and judicial) is certainly skewed, so I have no problem with the idea that mandatory reporting is likely skewed as well, and that this is worth looking at. Looking at the site, it calls for the âcomplete elimination of the existing family policing system and a fundamental transformation of the ways in which society supports children, families, and communitiesâ and 'replacing them with resources and supports designed by families and communities that promote the safety and well-being of children in their homes. In this way, abolition is not about simply ending the family policing system, nor is it about ignoring child safety; it is about creating the conditions in society where the need for family policing is obsolete" Doesnât say anything about mandatory reporting per se, but I guess one could lump that into the current child welfare system, and frankly, once you get past some of the rhetoric, doesnât seem it should be all that controversial.
Obviously horrible failures all around there, but that happened under the system as it exists, so bringing that up as an example of why a change to the system is a bad idea doesnât seem to make much sense.
the really lousy nypost article concludes with:
When gold medalist Simone Biles testified before Congress earlier this year, in a hearing about the mishandling of sexual abuse claims against the US womenâs gymnastics doctor, she explained: âTo be clear, I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse.â
Well, yeah, that doesnât exactly support that the system doesnât need change.
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If left-wing justice authorities handle this as well as they have bail reform, with Americaâs more than ample supply of criminally-minded people taking full advantage to the maximum extent possible without fear or much in the way of consequences, it sounds like a catastrophic idea to treat kids in such a cavalier fashion as to have a âcomplete elimination of the existing family policing system" or not require doctors, police, and teachers have to report abuse when they suspect it. The latter certainly makes total sense for the sake of protecting children from abuse. Has it been demonstrated this is being implemented unfairly in some way? Any of our teachers, cops, or doctors reporting such cases willy-nilly? I guess Iâd well likely support politically anyone less likely to implement such an insane scheme, if it becomes an issue (and easy enough to believe it could these days) for the sake of protecting children.
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How do you think it is skewed in the schools? Not the whole too many kids of color are being suspended for not doin nothing, is it?
It might if you think about it a bit more. Not every case is so bad. Usually itâs something minor and by working with the schools, teachers, doctors families and lawyers, it gets sorted. In some cases more and worse abuse is found and horrors like the Texas case are prevented long before they occur.
Not that theyâre suspended for doing nothing, but theyâre disciplined for things that white kids arenât, starting waaay back in (pre?)kindergarten.
Yeah, I doubt it. Most kids who are suspended in my district, from my experience, deserved it. And most suspensions are handed down after multiple incidents, and usually with at least one violent incident.
Iâm glad your district seems equitable. But surely youâre familiar with zero-tolerance policies at many schools these days (so multiple violations arenât relevant in those case), and youâve heard stories of pre-k students kicked out for kicking off shoes and having tantrums, or having too many accidents (whaaat, 3-4 year olds having tantrums or accidents? shocking. i know).
Exactly why they should be home playing and not at school,
Oh no, that is not how the district is seen at all. Itâs just the reality.
Keep the cancel train rolling.
Letâs target Buddhist imagery and call it Nazism.
Letâs lump in discrimination against POC, queer, etc. just to put an exclamation point on it.
Hidden Villa appears to be a very progressive entity. I guess no organization is safe anymore.
They should have a slogan.
The Woke Mob - We eat our own!
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Are all the farm animals gay?
âsome individuals experienced harm from their presence on the buildingâ
Who are these people? How do they cope with everyday life?
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Who says they do? Thatâs probably why they were at Hidden Villa.
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By shutting down community camps.
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Amazing,
Protesting racism and intolerance whilst claiming to be inclusive and accepting of other cultures by being intolerant and unaccepting of other cultures (in this case Buddhism)
Bunch of wet wipes.
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Any pain that our current and former staff, especially any Staff of Color, have felt during their tenure at the organization, deeply saddens us
Especially staff of Color.
Why even add that line?
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In general, a large number of species display bisexual behaviour. And thatâs before we get to those who can impregnate themselves, and those born already pregnant. And then there are species which change gender during their life cycle. 
You can blame the Industrial Revolution and Victorians for the current state of vanilla attitudes towards sexuality.
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