{"id":19880,"date":"2023-01-30T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19880"},"modified":"2023-01-30T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:09:10","slug":"communist-chinese-co-parent-or-maos-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/01\/30\/communist-chinese-co-parent-or-maos-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Communist Chinese Co-Parent or Mao&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19877\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/google-tan-commie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/google-tan-commie.png 524w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/google-tan-commie-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The state as <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/12\/leviathans-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-parent<\/a> or even <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/09\/02\/there-is-no-family-but-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/02\/08\/the-state-is-mother-the-state-is-father\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parent<\/a> of a child is a <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/03\/17\/the-state-is-a-passive-agressive-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concept<\/a> that isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/01\/12\/generous-government-to-include-parents-in-raising-of-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unknown<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/07\/03\/the-third-parent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the West<\/a>. But is is but fascinating when Western parents praise Communist China for making their children subservient and obedient\u2026 superficially to them but ultimately to <em>Leviathan<\/em>. After all, what kind of person would unabashedly say \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/mhBUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I had to accept that my growing belly had become community property<\/a>\u201d?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe weighed the pros of the Chinese route (our girls would learn fluent Mandarin and, hopefully, a broadened worldview) and the cons (exposure to Communist Party propaganda and potential social isolation of being foreigners in a group of Chinese students). We took the plunge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Meh, what\u2019s a little Commie indoctrination, after all?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur stringent government co-parent quickly made its presence felt. The girls\u2019 Chinese kindergarten lectured on us everything, including how many hours our daughters should sleep, what they should eat and their optimal weight. Each morning all of the students performed calisthenics in straight rows and raised China\u2019s red flag while singing the national anthem. Classroom windows were usually kept open to increase air circulation and prevent contamination by airborne illnesses, even during winter, when the kids would attend class wearing their coats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe sometimes felt as if our children were on loan to us for evenings and weekends, to be delivered back to school each weekday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And how they loved that their little tykes were <em>Leviathan\u2019s Children<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOver time, the benefits kicked in. Constantly served up moral, history and culture lessons on pulling together for the sake of the Chinese nation, our girls came home discussing self-discipline, integrity and respect for elders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And, <em>of course<\/em>, the parents praised their Commie overlords.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Communist Chinese Co-Parent or Mao' Children\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The state as co-parent or even primary parent of a child is a concept that isn't unknown to the West.  But is is bot fascinating when Western parents praise Communist China for making their children subservient and obedient\u2026 superficially to them but ultimately to Leviathan. After all, what kind of person would unabashedly say 'I had to accept that my growing belly had become community property'?\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/google-tan-commie.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The state as co-parent or even primary parent of a child is a concept that isn\u2019t unknown to the West. But is is but fascinating when Western parents praise Communist China for making their children subservient and obedient\u2026 superficially to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/01\/30\/communist-chinese-co-parent-or-maos-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[19,65,24,68],"class_list":["post-19880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-leviathan","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19881,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880\/revisions\/19881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}