"A couple wants to adopt a little black boy...

"Bad Idea Hat" (taoistlumberjack) 01/30/2015 at 16:33 • Filed to: None

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...just so they have at least one kid who is good at sports."

Is this

A) An Always Sunny episode storyline?

B) A Chappelle's Show skit

OR

C) Something a real life human who is a friend of a friend actually said.

ranwhenparked > Bad Idea Hat 01/30/2015 at 16:35

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Well, I'm going with C. And it probably isn't the first time someone said that either.

Bad Idea Hat > ranwhenparked 01/30/2015 at 16:37

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It's the first time where I can actually drive to their house and smack them until they understand.

For Sweden > Bad Idea Hat 01/30/2015 at 16:37

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No, no, no, you adopt a White midget if you want to raise a racecar driver.

Trevor Slattery, ACTOR > Bad Idea Hat 01/30/2015 at 16:44

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And to play bass...'cause that's what we do.

Xyl0c41n3 > Bad Idea Hat 01/30/2015 at 17:14

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I'm gonna go with Option C because someone once told me something pretty similar. Only, they wanted to adopt a black kid and one of my future kids (I'm Latina) because cute. I think they somehow forgot that "cute" kids of color grow up into real, actual, thinking and autonomous human beings just like everyone else.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Trevor Slattery, ACTOR 01/30/2015 at 17:32

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*looks at your username*
Sure looks like it.
(okay, not all users of the word Motorhead are fans of the band, nor bassists)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Xyl0c41n3 01/30/2015 at 17:37

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Adopting outside race due to the fact that there are a lot of non-anglo kids in the system that need parents is one thing. Adopting outside race because one is trying (like a halfwit) to construct a Sesame Street mixed race wonderland of kids that will grow up having a case of "you're different" rubbed in their face as consequence... yeah, no. That's another.

I mean, the first can be broadly paternalistic, but the second is just idiotic. Unintended consequences? You're soaking in 'em!

Xyl0c41n3 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/30/2015 at 17:52

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I'd say patronizing more than paternalistic. Adopting regardless of race because you want to raise a human being, because you want to give a loving home to a child, is awesome. Adopting despite race because there's more "supply" than "demand" of one race or another and so you're "settling" in some sense is bullshit. (Further bullshit if you view taking in a different-race-from-yourself child as some form of charity). But worst of all is what my friend literally told me: that she wanted my hypothetical children and black children because our kids are just so cute. She then went on to list physical traits that make us cute. Children of color (and children in general) are not fashion accessories.

treesmakewater > Bad Idea Hat 01/30/2015 at 18:10

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i was just watching its always sunny i n Philadelphia!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Xyl0c41n3 01/30/2015 at 18:18

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Yep. *patronizing* is what I meant. Specifically in the sense of "oh, charity". Also, kids are not pokeymans. That being said, there are toxic practices in place in some areas - social workers refusing to permit adoption across race, which is the other side of the coin. "Can we see the kids who are up for adoption?" "This room is off limits!" Some of these areas expressly have many more non-anglo and mixed race kids, but restrict paler adoptive parents to the pale. Trophy adoption is wrong, but I'm also of the opinion that saying someone must belong to/be raised in this or that culture because of their race is... what's the word, racist? There's no easy way to *know* someone's motives in adoption, more's the pity.

Then again, what the hell do I know. Have an uncle who married a Korean, adopted a local orphan who was probably Korean/latino, and that kid went on to marry a blond Brazilian. Then there's my dad's cousin who married a guy with a background from India... I could go on for pages. What I'm saying is my racial give-a-shit-o-meter is broken.

Adopting is very tricky regardless, because it discriminates against the un-cute regardless of race? Maybe. It's not like a lottery would work that well in the short term either, because that'd mean minorities almost with certainty adopted out to non-minorities, and make for a generation of awkwardness.

CalzoneGolem > Bad Idea Hat 02/10/2015 at 13:31

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Please let me know when this is complete.