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They...took her baby... because her own dad who is in prison abused her as a child.
What the absolute fuck.
The “parenting competence” tests, known as FKU
Fuck you seems like an appropriate name for such a grotesque thing.
What was that about the nordic countries being the model for us to follow? 
It's the same as 
, Liberals love a quiet creeping fascism with good PR. has been kidnapping indigenous kids and forcibly sterilizing indigenous women well into the present day.
This is actually exactly why
Blue MAGA
Aah, parenting competence tests. The thing that SOUNDS like a good idea until you think about it for more than two seconds.
aka: repackaged eugenics.
To be clear, nobody is forbidding anyone from giving birth based on these tests.
was contraception a big part of eugenics in the past?
Yes, I believe so. Are you implying there's some sort of contraception involved in this case?
you pointed out that contraception was not involved when i suggested that all this was repackaged eugenics; so i'm asking you. lol
As I understand eugenics, it's all about ensuring babies with "correct" genes are born and babies with "wrong" genes aren't, so yes, preventing pregnancies or births seem to be at the heart of eugenics.
And doesn't seem to directly appear in this story.
That sounds like a slight improvement to me
What does the parental test of this story have to do with eugenics then?
assessments for people's "fitness" for having children is a cornerstone of eugenics and it's current incarnation exists in institutions lilke child protective services within the united states.
I'd say there's a difference between assessing people's fitness to have children, and their fitness to raise children. The latter is a lot less eugenics-related, and clearly necessary in some form to protect children from being abused by their parents.
Though of course it isn't always done perfectly or even well.
It's done poorly and through a classicist & cultural bias.
The eugenics must flow 
Hmm I’m no ethics expert but I think you have to give that baby back Greenland. When this kind of thing happens I always try and fail to get in the mindset of the people who led to it. Someone flagged the case, discussed it with people, someone rubber stamped it.
Maybe you're missing the extreme prejudice/racism
The baby was born in Denmark where the mother lives, so if it's given back, it's not given back to Greenland
Denmark has a long and horrifying history of this, and it’s overwhelmingly used against indigenous people.
This is disgusting.
I can also see how such 'tests' can be used as a political tool to take away children from people who hold beliefs that the current barons don't like.
Shhh, don't give big orange any ideas.
At first I was outrage by this: forældrekompetenceundersøgelse. Then I read this sentence: "The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents."
How about just giving everyone education on how to parent a child?
Mandatory education, along with emotional intelligence classes
Well, in their defense, the Danish are cunts... Oh, wait, that doesn't help...
And we here in Canada still ashamed of residential schools. You'd think other countries would have learned.
These competence tests are being used on Danish parents as well, just to be clear. The law mentioned in the article is one that exempts the Inuit from being tested under the same conditions as other citizens in the kingdom.