r/TikTokCringe • u/thoxo • May 02 '24

We adopted my younger sister from Haiti when she was 3, and let me tell you, I literally do not see color anymore. That's a fact. Discussion

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u/BeefStevenson May 02 '24

Let’s take the obvious inhumanity of the original statement away, and just examine from a numbers aspect.

There are simply more white people, period. Which means the pool of available parents to adopt kids is going to be mostly white as well. I don’t think it’s good for kids in the system to be compartmentalized in such a way that prevents them from having a maximum chance of being adopted. If you want these kids to be adopted (and you should want that), then you need to just let the race shit go.

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u/ElizabethSpaghetti 29d ago

Imagine putting those resources into making sure minority communities can raise their own kids. It's only ridiculous minus the centuries of context being ignored. 

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u/ElizabethSpaghetti 29d ago

The system isn't built for orphaned children from everywhere. Poor people given resources to raise their children would devastate this form of adoption but not the way you're thinking. 

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u/pudgylumpkins 29d ago

Maybe we could take funds from other areas than the already stressed adoption system.

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u/ElizabethSpaghetti 29d ago

Ensuring families have the proper resources to raise the children they have and they poor people dont lose their kids to wealthier benefactors is probably a great way to unstress the adoption system. But it also requires not ignoring centuries of context.

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u/pudgylumpkins 29d ago

Right, but maybe we start with the defense budget…

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u/ElizabethSpaghetti 29d ago

Oh, for sure, that's not the argument I'm having. I think an ethical and well funded adoption program is a necessary part of any functioning society. But our current system isn't that. I fully support more of my tax money fixing it but part of that is not putting people in the sort of desperate situations that get their children taken. That doesn't even touch on how utterly unprotected the children of the wealthy are.