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There are many white guilt children’s books, but this one I find to be especially egregious. It’s about how all the poor little Mexican migrant children weren’t allowed to play with the mean white kids and had to go to school in a cow pasture.

So my in-laws give it to me today. Smiles, pride. “Our university gave this an award this year!” Yeah, I bet it did.

I grew up in a 50% Hispanic town. So did my mom. There were very few issues between the two groups, and when there were issues, it was because the Mexican girls started shit. I’m not having some white bread liberal Yankee deliver lectures to my children about what the “Mexican childhood experience” was like. I lived it. They didn’t.

There are many white guilt children’s books, but this one I find to be especially egregious. It’s about how all the poor little Mexican migrant children weren’t allowed to play with the mean white kids and had to go to school in a cow pasture. So my in-laws give it to me today. Smiles, pride. “Our university gave this an award this year!” Yeah, I bet it did. I grew up in a 50% Hispanic town. So did my mom. There were very few issues between the two groups, and when there were issues, it was because the Mexican girls started shit. I’m not having some white bread liberal Yankee deliver lectures to my children about what the “Mexican childhood experience” was like. I lived it. They didn’t.

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Toss that shit in the trash.

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I told my husband that we were not reading it to the baby. I’ll get rid of it in due time.

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Toss it on the fire right in front of them. The arrogance of other people telling you how too raise your kids is bad enough but they had to know how lopsided that kind of book is. It's amazing how many whites hate themselves and think these freeloaders are worth more than their own kind!

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Have a fireplace? Use it as a firestarter in front of them and thank them for such great thought in keeping your home warm.

I sort of kid. I'm sorry you have libtards in the family. It's hard to deal with them. As the children get older they'll try to teach them their values which will butt against yours. Just keep things honest with your kids and let them make observations about the world and when they try to indoctrinate your children, it will fail.

Guess how I know.

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Honesty is the best course I believe. My parents aren’t anywhere near what anybody would term “racist” but they still did a good job with teaching us about the differences between people. It’s like, most people are fairly decent one on one, but in groups (even perceived groups) personal behavior to change to fit stereotypes.

I don’t deal much with these particular in-laws. The husband is a hopeless alcoholic, so I have my problems with him beyond their shitty politics. My husband knows my feelings on it and doesn’t force unnecessary interaction at this point.

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There are many books I do not allow my young kids to read. Some things being put in children’s books now days are just not appropriate subjects for children younger than 10

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I really do think it’s fine to teach age-appropriate history. At some point in time, every group has treated some other group of people like shit. Some groups of people or historical actions are objectively more shitty than others - the Japanese in WWII were far worse to our POWs than we were to their civilians in the US. And usually, everybody in a shitty situation has contributed to it in some way.

But it that context isn’t in there, or if a child is too young to understand, it’s not appropriate. It’s not appropriate for fucking picture books!

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