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Parenting Magazine Warns ‘Blond, Cheerful’ Families Dangerous, Likely Right Wing
2019-04-12
[BREITBART] Parenting magazine Baby & Family has told readers to beware of families who are "inconspicuous" and "cheerful", as these warning signs indicate they are right wing and thus "dangerous".

Depicted with illustrations featuring solely blonde women and kiddies, the report says ordinary parents must take action against right-wing families and make clear that their ideology has no place in the world.

Asserting that the term "right wing" "stirs up anxiety" and brings to mind "burning refugee homes", skinheads, and the National Socialist Underground (NSU) group who carried out a string of violent attacks on foreign people, Baby & Family notes that people "rarely connect it with women, family and children".

This, the high-circulation German magazine declares, "is precisely the great risk" as such people are just as dangerous if not more so as gangs of Nazi skinheads. The identifying features of right-wing families, it contends, are that they are "inconspicuous, blond, cute and engaged".

"First of all, [right-wing families] are nice and dedicated" Michaela Köttig, sociologist and researcher of right-wing extremism at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, alleges.

Researcher of right-wing politics, Eva Prausner, says a huge danger of right-wing families is that they seem normal.

Because of this, she says many parents will already have established good relations with them to the point that they "are no longer marginalised and at worst, get support".

While there are different types of right-wing families, Baby & Family asserts that daycare centres should always seek help when dealing with them.

"The right has many forms. The definition of what is extreme and what is not is difficult", it says, but asserts that all manifestations must be dealt with because right wingers could spread their views when meeting with other parents in the playground.

Heike Radvan of the controversial Amadeu Antonio Foundation warns that "children of right-wing parents are not necessarily different from other children", but says they are often "very obedient" and might not talk much.

Despite asserting that such children are not outspoken, the "experts" wheeled out by the magazine warn that a sinister aspect of right-wing parenting is that they instil self-confidence in their progeny.

They do this, Prausner posits, in hope that "their offspring will later confidently carry their ideology into the world".
Posted by:Fred

#6  I'm with Steve S. Very surprised that this is for real instead of being the Babylon Bee.
Posted by: Tom   2019-04-12 16:38  

#5  When a German magazine calls blondes sketchy you have to wonder who their base audience is.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-04-12 11:57  

#4  So, 'polite, well behaved, cheerful, AND self confident'. Gotta work pretty hard to put a harsh face on that.
Posted by: Cesare   2019-04-12 09:47  

#3  Not the Bee. Color me surprised.

Germany, WTF? Is communism considered the default centrist position nowadays?
Posted by: SteveS   2019-04-12 08:57  

#2  When you reject God and make yourself your own god, you become suspicious of others happiness when its not predicated upon your existence.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-04-12 07:47  

#1  Treating fellow citizens as The Other.
Posted by: Herb Splat3547   2019-04-12 05:18  

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