Teen Vogue published an op ed calling for the abolishment of private property rights and the police

[Deleted User 1616]

The offending article, written by political journalist Kandist Mallett, details the mounting eviction crisis across the US after millions of Americans lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and have been left with the threat of homelessness hanging over them.

'While we’re working to abolish the police, we must also work to dismantle what the police were put here to protect: property,' it reads.

'What is more evident of the legacy of settler colonialism and its violence than the idea of the ownership of land?

'What helped shape the unequal distribution of wealth and enduring segregation of our cities quite like centuries of racist property laws?'



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ights.html

[Linda_Runs]

Here is the scary part: I speak to older teens now that totally believe this. They forget how comfortable a life they had growing up protected in their nice, well taken care of parent's home with all the amenities.

[Aletheia]

the idea of the ownership of land

"We don't own land - we borrow it from future generations."

[Aletheia]

"Just wondering if anyone sees any issues with our next generation reading Marxist propaganda in popular teen magazines...?"

I'd far rather teenagers get exposed to arguments from all sides of the political spectrum, and reasoned discussion between those viewpoints, than they be restricted to only "approved safe" points of view.

[xsxpxixdxexrxsx]

Here is the scary part: I speak to older teens now that totally believe this. They forget how comfortable a life they had growing up protected in their nice, well taken care of parent's home with all the amenities.

If they get what they want, how long do you think it'll be until the regret sets in?

[Frau Holle]

What a sad way to be reminded how much blood has been shed in the pursuit of property ownership.


You can’t change the nature of life itself because you don’t like it.

[SallyMae]

La propriété, c'est le vol! - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

[Deleted User 670]

The problem is not property rights but the inequality of wealth caused by the 1%ers not paying enough taxes. Housing is becoming unaffordable across the nation because of it. The Reagan era 'tax reform' needs to be tossed out the window. We have had more than 40 years of this so-called 'trickle down economics' experiment and it does not work.

[SallyMae]

Today's distribution of "property" is from the unethical actions of our ancestors. We should examine how it is that some people have massive choices in life and other people have almost none, through no action of their own, but through the actions of our ancestors. Why are we today bound to respect the bloody lines they drew? Especially when the legacy unfairness of our system is killing people?

Hearing this would not hurt a teen, even if they disagreed.

[SallyMae]

What a sad way to be reminded how much blood has been shed in the pursuit of property ownership.


You can’t change the nature of life itself because you don’t like it.

I would disagree. Some things can't be changed, like gravity, but others can, like human behavior. I think the whole experiment of civilization has been an attempt to change human behavior, to make humans able to cooperate in large groups to accomplish more than we can manage as warring tribes.

Particularly when the 'nature' in question is human nature, we have already changed a lot, and for the undeniable better. There is still a lot not to like, though, so here's to changing it for the better still.