Reviewer:Elizabeth Wright681
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August 12, 2024 Subject:
I love this, but this nation is beyond hope.
This speech was probably the most raw and powerful thing I have ever seen on the internet. Clopper's decision to be completely candid, uneuphamistic allowed
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him to effectively divulge the horror of male genital cutting, which was likely the impetus for Harvard's extreme censoring of him. This culture of intellectual dishonesty for the sake of political correctness has caused an unmeasurable amount of suffering for children. [] The pernicious religious freedom clause in the first admendment is the reason the United States is beyond saving. This brutal nation espouses a cruel cultural paradox: All people deserve freedom unless, of course, they belong to a group who does not. This culture sees children and adolescents, who are incorrectlly labeled as children by the law, as objects, extensions of their parents, not as citizens nor as people. Parents' right to "raise their children according to their values" trumps children's rights; it is morally abhorant. Parents don't know what is best for their child; no one truely does, and the only person who will ever come close is the child themselves. Along with foreskin amputation, parents are allowed to inflict corporal punishment onto their children, physical restrain them for reasons not directly related to protecting their safety, restrict them from sex education and make medical decisions for them when they clearly display enough mental competance to consent for themselves. To prevent child abuse, a term I use liberally, a nation must standardize parenting; the first step would be ratifyibg the UN's convention of children's rights, but the US will never do this because it conflicts with religious "freedom". The second step would be to encourage a change of perception of children and adolescents from "becoming" to "being", respecting their inherent moral rights to autonomy and privacy. [] We live in a culture of fear-mongering and authoritarianism when it comes to how we treat children and adolescents. We need to recognize our extreme ageist predjudices before we can create a place where children and adolescents don't have to live against their nature in fear of punishment and shame. Honestly, the US, like communism, was a good idea in theory but is consistantly terrible in its execution. God bless the EU.
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