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February 28, 2007
Communist Brainwashing at Seattle School
Posted by Van Helsing at February 28, 2007 4:40 PM
As communism has proven at every opportunity, without property rights, there are no rights at all — not even the right to life and limb. But that's not what some kids have been learning at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle, where Legos were banned to stress to children "the inequities of private ownership."
According to the teachers:
Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.
Somehow "full democratic participation" never seems to last very long once the government has exerted the totalitarian authority required to impose "collectivity."
Teachers were disturbed to see kids supposedly incorporating into an elaborate Legotown they built "assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys" that "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive." One child was actually heard to say, "If I buy it, I own it."
Of course the way it should work is, "If I build it, the government expropriates it." To get this message across, Legos were banned while students were subjected to esoteric lectures on the evils of individuality over a period of several months, after which the kids finally got to play with Legos again. But first they had to agree to guiding principles such as "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." Children were conditioned to recite chilling lines like these:
A house is good because it is a community house.
We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes.
It's important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building.
It's particularly important to learn these lessons in Washington State, where even before the outrageous Kelo decision state officials were making a regular practice of abusing eminent domain to steal people's property and turn it over to developers able to generate more tax revenue.
On tips from NudeGayWhalesForJesus and James.
