The point of videos like this is to understand what some children are raised with and how a culture is created when children (who, developmentally speaking, generally aren't reflective in nature) are raised to mimic thugs (in this case) or racists, criminals, whatever.

If you don't engage in this behaviour, don't take it personally or assume that others think this is going on in your home based on your race. If you do engage in this, please think about what you are doing and the legacy you are leaving

I think you missed the point entirely. The video was shown as a kind of minstrel show by police who believe that their poor black constituents are beyond saving because they are raised to be thugs from infancy. What could police hope to learn from this other than a reinforcement of stereotypes that they already hold about black people? Don't try to confuse this by bringing in the Aryan nations video example as a kind of false parity. This video absolutely has zero value as a police training tool. ZERO.

Anonymous wrote:It didn't seem like he was being physically abused. He looks clean and the adults seem to be used to this behavior. I am not condoning it, but I grew up with a white step dad that called me names (shit head, little shit, dumbass) always in a teasing, semi loving manner. He grew up in a poor family in Oklahoma and this was how they showed affection. I was also encouraged to throw back epithets that he would laugh at and encourage. It was messed up, but he never abused me. I did just fine, I did not continue this cycle with my kids. This is how this family "plays" it sounds horrible to us, and it is wrong but if this child turns into a "thug" it's because of many different reasons.

in my country children are occationally called animals. A baby can be referred to as a monkey, sometimes a lion and at other times any other animal, even a donkey. It is a term of endearment in that context

Anonymous wrote:It was terrible. Not just the N word but also saying sexually explicit things to a toddler.... oh geez....

How was the toddler traumatized by this? This is just common hood talk, the caregivers talk the language/dialect of the regoin. Should cps get involved with the honey booboo redneckerize as well just because I think that is a bad word

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It didn't seem like he was being physically abused. He looks clean and the adults seem to be used to this behavior. I am not condoning it, but I grew up with a white step dad that called me names (shit head, little shit, dumbass) always in a teasing, semi loving manner. He grew up in a poor family in Oklahoma and this was how they showed affection. I was also encouraged to throw back epithets that he would laugh at and encourage. It was messed up, but he never abused me. I did just fine, I did not continue this cycle with my kids. This is how this family "plays" it sounds horrible to us, and it is wrong but if this child turns into a "thug" it's because of many different reasons.

All that name calling has warped your brain if you believe anything you just wrote. What your stepdad did and what these folks are doing is emotionally abusive, dysfunctional and ABUSIVE. Say it with me: A.B.U.S.E!
And yes this type of emotional abuse can create non-empathetic, hostile, aggressive behaviour due to low self-esteem, failure to have self-control and a myriad of other issues. Wow -- what a clueless response. WHO IN THE HELL thinks that cussing out a baby/child is not likely to lead to problems in the future. WHAT THE FUQH?

+1000.

Poor kid. The adults should be strung up to dry.

It was terrible. Not just the N word but also saying sexually explicit things to a toddler.... oh geez....

Anonymous wrote:I see this every day on the bus in DV. I think it's a lot more common than people think. And it bothers me to think of my kid in a class where the majority of kids are coming from this homelike. People on welfare should be required to,take parenting classes.

I agree because only people on welfare are abusers. SMDAMNH

"Of course showing this video as part of a training for police officers is racist. It's painting a particular racial group in a negative and stereotyped way, and using a child to do it. What possible training purpose could this have for the audience intended other than to dehumanize another group of people?"

There are also training videos of crazy aryan nations families and all the disgusting things they teach the children to say- videos where you hear children obediantly saying 'lynch em all' etc...

The point of videos like this is to understand what some children are raised with and how a culture is created when children (who, developmentally speaking, generally aren't reflective in nature) are raised to mimic thugs (in this case) or racists, criminals, whatever.

If you don't engage in this behaviour, don't take it personally or assume that others think this is going on in your home based on your race. If you do engage in this, please think about what you are doing and the legacy you are leaving.

I see this every day on the bus in DV. I think it's a lot more common than people think. And it bothers me to think of my kid in a class where the majority of kids are coming from this homelike. People on welfare should be required to,take parenting classes.

Anonymous wrote:It didn't seem like he was being physically abused. He looks clean and the adults seem to be used to this behavior. I am not condoning it, but I grew up with a white step dad that called me names (shit head, little shit, dumbass) always in a teasing, semi loving manner. He grew up in a poor family in Oklahoma and this was how they showed affection. I was also encouraged to throw back epithets that he would laugh at and encourage. It was messed up, but he never abused me. I did just fine, I did not continue this cycle with my kids. This is how this family "plays" it sounds horrible to us, and it is wrong but if this child turns into a "thug" it's because of many different reasons.

All that name calling has warped your brain if you believe anything you just wrote. What your stepdad did and what these folks are doing is emotionally abusive, dysfunctional and ABUSIVE. Say it with me: A.B.U.S.E!
And yes this type of emotional abuse can create non-empathetic, hostile, aggressive behaviour due to low self-esteem, failure to have self-control and a myriad of other issues. Wow -- what a clueless response. WHO IN THE HELL thinks that cussing out a baby/child is not likely to lead to problems in the future. WHAT THE FUQH?

Of course showing this video as part of a training for police officers is racist. It's painting a particular racial group in a negative and stereotyped way, and using a child to do it. What possible training purpose could this have for the audience intended other than to dehumanize another group of people?