Could it be that these kids are literally being followed by adults with cameras on them at all times? Could it be that they're walking through cities where people don't drive ford f15,000s 30 mph over the speed limit?
No, it must be because japan is "homogenized" and makes pedo porn
This is the same Japan that has separate train cars for women because sexual assault was so rampant?
Because Chuds who have a hard on for Japan are the worst. "Muh homogenous ethnostate" and "muh loli porn" are such common traits for white dudes in Japan that it's basically a cliche.
The most amusing response to the ethnostate ones is "well why the fuck are you here then?"
Weird how republicans unashamedly love Cheese Pizza but want all LGBT people executed because "it makes Jesus sad". Where does the Bible endorse hentai, Americans?
thanks at obvious red pills for the stunning assertion that social homogeneity prevents child abuse. like, it would be absurd for a child to be abused by their own parents, since they're literally flesh and blood. obviously.
of course! the nuclear family is of course the perfect way to structure a household, as ordained by the Father, Son and the Holy Invisible Hand of the Free Market
And as we all know children are never molested in religious environments
The word “stroad” fills me with such an instant and intense rage
This has some real "say what you will about pedophiles, but at least they slow down while driving through school zones" vibes.
lets compare to Australia, U.K., Canada and America
Well, if we're going to equate correlation to causation then one might point out that those dangerous countries you mentioned are run by and are majority white people ... Curious :think-about-it:
Also, it might be Japan, you know, pretending it's safer than it really is. It's not like they like to talk about taboo things.
Also, it might be Japan, you know, pretending it’s safer than it really is. It’s not like they like to talk about taboo things.
Nah, when I lived there it was very common to see young children on trains, busses, and walking by themselves with zero adult supervision. It is just socially acceptable for kids to be off doing their own thing at a very young age.
Also, not to go off at you personally but I think there's something vaguely orientalist in the idea that Japan (or any other Asian country) does things to save face or whatever. Like we don't look at dumb American high school sitcoms and talk about how Americans are sweeping school shootings under the rug because they're saving face.
when I lived there it was very common to see young children on trains, busses, and walking by themselves with zero adult supervision. It is just socially acceptable for kids to be off doing their own thing at a very young age.
This was common in the US, too, up until maybe twenty or thirty years ago. From what I understand the massive decrease in the independence of children is strongly associated with the expansion of cable news; People saw more crimes happening on TV and it lowered their perception of safety. There's probably also a bunch of economic factors, too.
When I was a kid, my mom would kick me out of the house all day long. I was allowed to come back for lunch, but probably a friend's mom would make lunch for us all. I was allowed back home when the street lights came on.
Today? That's child abuse and leaving children unsupervised would get you a jail sentence. Hell, I used to walk to school. Alone. And back again in the afternoon. This is within living memory.
I know, it's terrifying. I used to go fuck around in the woods lighting stuff on fire and be out from morning to sunset and these days it seems like the police and child protective services would be on you in moments. There's absolutely no reason a 10 year old can't be left pretty much entirely unsupervised all day. More so, because now you can give that ten year old a phone so you can actually get in touch with them if you need to. Hell, you can set up GPS tracking on their phone for real-time position tracking. But everyone acts like the world is incredibly dangerous and anyone under the age of about 16 can't be allowed out of sight because they'll immediately be inducted in to witchcraft by anarchist lesbians.
Hell, I used to walk to school. Alone. And back again in the afternoon.
That's still pretty normal here in the UK from about 9 or 10 years old. Though many get dropped off, by 11 (start of secondary school) it's universally usually bus or walk.
Police arrested Ashley Richardson, a mother in Winter Haven, Florida, on Tuesday after they found her four children playing alone in a park while she went to a local food bank. She’s now facing four counts of negligent child abuse without bodily harm.
'Totally dumbfounded': Mom arrested for letting her son, 7, walk to nearby park alone "I'm totally dumbfounded by this whole situation,'' Gainey told WPTV. "I honestly don't think I was doing anything wrong. I was letting him go play."
These were way back in 2014. It's gotten much, much worse since then.
In most of the US it's probably safer for kids to walk to and from school on their own now than it was in the eighties, but gen X was basically mentally scarred by the "where are your children now?" shit and the cultural will to go back hasn't materialized (I have read about parents who let their kids ride the bus getting CPS calls).
No problem comrade. Like I said, I don't mean to pick on you specifically.
I mean, Americans are doing that for that reason, but I get where you're coming from.
Walking the streets at night in Japan is the safest I have ever felt anywhere in the world. I literally would not do the stuff I did in Japan here in the UK, it's massively safer there.
Aren't the cops there sort of terrifying? Or maybe I'm just remembering Enter the Void and projecting it onto all of Japan?
i mean it is normal in japan for kids (obviously older than toddlers) to walk to school by themselves though, mostly bc of walkable cities/good public transportation
Common thing really. Scandinavian here, and I think the only time my parents took me to school was my first day in first grade. 2nd day and onwards we were on our own as far as I remember.
I did that shit in London from when I was like 7 too to be fair
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Ah yes all the white child rapists would just magically stop raping children if all the black people were killed and kicked out of the country.
Utterly fucking ridiculous ideology.
I can, but I didn't in the first place because content warnings usually come with a description of what is inside the content warning but in this case said description would just be more or less what's in there, mentioning the existence of that stuff. Now it's just an undescribed CW that people roll the dice with, or don't.
Yes, I too listened to the most recent episode of The House Known as Chapo (also a trap) podcast
I watched this for myself this weekend.
It’s dumb babies doing things on their own, why cant people keep it wholesome instead of diving into why a highly visible camera crew following a baby walking to the store in a very walkable town infrastructure is safer than other countries because of weird racism.
Like they take it that this is a normal thing instead of a outlier of common parental practice
El Chaporista Donda Es Pod Spectacular
(I do not speak or read spanish, this is a joke, please do not gulag me)
America is homogenous, lol; like what percentage of America isn't American? If they're talking about a few thousand expats, that wouldn't make sense to be causing this kind of danger in a country of 330 million.
Almost 90% of the population of the US are citizens who were born here. But somehow I don't think that's how this person is measuring homogeneity.
Is the US one of the most culturally homogenous countries on earth, and you can go to basically any city in it and feel like you’re outside the same Applebees on the exact same stroad off of the interstate? For sure.
But, ahem, have you considered :us-foreign-policy:
Do these morons realize that Japan isn't full of white people, and thus whites aren't so special after all?
Interesting how a country that isn't majority white that never got properly cheated by whites works better than the countries where the so-called "master race" are the majority.
so i read the article and the thing the expert seems to be "torn" on is the fact that this show is meant to be entertainment/funny and the kids clearly arent old enough to understand that they are the butt of the joke. But yeah sure something something america dangerous because black people.
Lmao bullshit, lock up the parents for reckless endangerment and being too fuckin lazy to do their damn shopping
Or maybe it's a good thing that parents can trust their kids to be autonomous within reason and not worry about kidnappings and murders.
In a Socialist society everyone should be able to go to the shops by themselves without fear, no matter how young or old they are.
Tasking your 4 year old to buy anything more complicated than a treat for themselves is neglectful parenting, full stop.
If you're barely old enough to write your own name, how the hell are you going to know how to pick out some good vegetables.
Most people. In fact there is quite a lot of doubt that such things exist.
I have a friend from India who used to just run around for hours in his village when he was like 5 years old, and that included going to the store. Why are people finding this so shocking? Very sheltered worldview tbh
I mean it seems to work for them so there is a synthesis to be found
From where I am from there is still some element of communal child watching. It isn't uncommon in a general scale
When I would stay in france with french relatives I have vivid memories as a 5 to 8 year old child of being sent to the bakery in Paris. They would give me a list and I would hand it over, that may be the case for these kids too.
Or maybe appropriate parenting depends on material and social conditions so a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't make sense.
Also, a 4 year old probably isn't going to pick out the best apples in the bunch but if you're trying to maximize your apples per yen you're probably not sending your kids out to do shit.
Maybe you want to colonize these savage Japanese islands and show them the proper way to parent? You'd be doing them a favor right?
Seriously, you don't know everything.
Agreed. Maybe a bit older than from what I can tell is in this highly contrived and controlled Reality Show. Just cause like, toddlers are basically baby ducks.
Reality shows aren't actually real yo. There's a bigass camera crew around them and a pretty good chance their parents are even there off camera.
I am dying on this hill, even if it's a cardboard cutout prop for sitcom
I sure as hell wouldn't want to work with a child actor if I didn't have the parents near by for morale purposes.
That's how Vic Morrow and those two kids were killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Working at 10pm at night with no supervision. Heck, Heather O'Rourke, that platinum blonde little girl who was the star of 'Poltergeist' died of a bizarre intestinal infection with no history of bowel problems. She was routinely left alone on the set all day with Hollywood adults who we know today sexually abused children like Corey Feldman.
There usually legally needs to be a parent or guardian that the parent has signed those responsibilities to on set in the first place
