jackofallgeeks | (no subject)

Keeping with today's trend, I find This to be rather
irritating, but also a little frightening. A woman in Canada had her
children (aged 7 and 2) taken away by Family Services after drawing a
swastika on her daughter's arm (apparently a repeat offense). Now, granted,
given that the home was full of neo-Nazi flags and such, and the woman
acknowledges her political leanings, and given that the whole Nazi thing has
a LOT of bad attached to it, not the least of which is a legacy of hate,
racism, and genocide -- given that, it's hard to have sympathy. But if her
only crime is holding beliefs you don't like, and that's enough to
take her children away, that's really frightening. It wouldn't take
much change for a lot of my personal, political, and religious beliefs to be
held as offensive.

Threaded | Flat

I have to agree entirely. Where do you draw the line between holding beliefs that are simply not popular and not agreed with by the majority of the population, and hate crimes? It's a fuzzy area... but I agree. As abominable as I find that woman, I don't see the reason for taking her children.