its terrifying to me. does anyone else feel there is a change thats occurred that resembles certain past human history, in the mindset of 'basically good' people moving along in the accepted ranks, unaware that they are marching toward an evil end?
I stumbled across
this article about Israel's alleged treatment of Yemeni children back in the '50's, and it makes the same point. By way of background, it has long been alleged that potentially thousands of children of Middle Eastern (Mizrahi) immigrants to Israel went missing in the early days of the state, and were adopted by European (Ashkenazi) parents (the truth or not of this I won't debate here). The argument being that the Ashkenazi had been through an enormous amount in WW2 and many could not have children, while the Mizrahi had many children and could afford to lose a few for the benefit of the nation as a whole. In the middle of going through many different personal stories about this, the article states:
"Mizrahi parents were seen as bad, primitive people who were a lost cause. The dominant view then was that, by placing the children with Ashkenazi families, they could be saved - unlike their parents. They would be re-educated and made into suitable material for the new Zionist state," Tzadok said.
"The hospital staff and officials probably didn't think they were doing something wrong. They thought it was their patriotic duty."
This is very plausible because at the exact same time, this was happening in Australia. Aboriginal children were taken from their parents and placed with parents of European descent. This is well-documented and now publicly acknowledged by the Australian government (
summary here). In this case too, the Aborigines were considered inferior parents, and it was considered to be in the child's best interests to be placed with "better" white parents who would give them a decent future.
There are historical allegations of the same sort of thing happening in many Western countries for many generations. Even New Zealand had such issues from the 40's to 70's (
e.g. this article). Similar allegations have emerged in the UK and Ireland. In many cases, young underprivileged women out of wedlock have been pressured to give up their children for adoption, because the authorities at the time (sometimes government, sometimes church authorities) have felt that was in the best interests of the child. In Germany kids are kidnapped because their parents are
homeschooling. In the USA, they can e kidnapped because their parents
use natural medicine. Always "in the best interests of the child".
This has happened over and over again in the past, and in many different countries. In every case people genuinely believed that they have good reason to do it. But that has never made it right.
There's no difference between taking children from an unfavoured race (e.g. Australian Aborigines) and placing them with "better" paernts, and taking them from parents with an unfavoured religion (e.g. conservative Christians) and placing them with parents deemed "better" for the same reason.
And of course it happens. Because the same evil spirit has been at work throughout the West for generations. It has been particularly evident in the past when European peoples move to a land including those of other races they consider inferior (e.g. Australia and allegedly Israel), and now manifests itself in religious persecution instead. But it's the same spirit.
