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Boy Scouts Train in Post-9/11 Law Enforcement Methods

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This story is being covered ad nauseum on political blogs, has already sparked a comment here about "Aryan homelands", the primary sources are sensationalistic (who could blame them) and I doubt there's an interesting debate to be had about this on Hacker News. A great Politics Reddit submission. A very bad Hacker News submission.

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This is racism, pure and simple, teaching young kids to torture and kill any non-Aryans in the vicinity. The anti-immigrant people are Aryan supremacists who want America to be an Aryan homeland. It is despicable that this neo-Nazi propaganda is being taught to young people. Children are not born hating, they are taught to hate through brain washing outfits like the homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi boy scouts. It is repulsive. We should be teaching our kids about programming and useful skills, instead, we are teaching them to use minorities for target practice a la Ralf Fiennes' character in 'Schindler's List'. It is enough to make the sane people like me want to move to Canada quite frankly.

WHAT are you talking about?

This has NOTHING to do with race at ALL, did you not read the article? It's about giving these children something to do that's (while a little strange) MUCH more helpful to them than trying to force them to learn a... programming language. Not everyone WANTS to do what you like to do, and until you can accept that, you're going to have a very closed view of the world.

The kids on the article's photo look mostly Mexican. Moreover, there's no such thing as an "aryan race". This program looks a bit like Hitler's youth in some ways, but let's be pragmatic: the program gives teenagers in a rather poor area something to do with their free time, and something to look for. I think it's better to have them practising marijuana field raids (though ludicruous that is) than joining a local gang and end up in prison years later to be nothing more than mere parasites of the system.

Blaming those ground under the heel of the US Justice system for being forcibly made into "parasites" is almost as repugnant as encouraging our youth to side with the oppressors instead of the oppressed

Prisoners live off the state. They are, by definition, parasites. Everything else is semantics.

The writing off mass injustice and suffering as 'semantics' notwithstanding, you might enjoy learning that 'parasite' described those in Greek and Roman society who earned their daily meals by entertaining and flattering at the dinner tables of the rich

Hopefully you appreciate the irony in the word now describing those forced to live in incarceration, to satisfy a societal elite with a fetish for moralizing and punishment

Are your views U.S.-centric?

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