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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
I think it is hateful even to notice that people might be treated differently because of their names.
How are you going to enforce the "duty of the parents naming children" in any kind of US court?
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I wasn't thinking of it being enforceable at all. It seems to me that there are a lot of unenforceable things that others recognize as duties of good parents: reading to kids, sending them to school ready to learn, attending parents meetings at school, etc. They go way beyond what's required to avoid charges of neglect or anything "enforceable," but society seems to think that good parents do them.
I don't think that it's bad parenting to give your kid a unique name. But I can see that the flip side of "parents should consider this" is the idea that "you didn't consider that, so you're a bad parent," and I was wondering if that's what you were angered by.
I don't think it's hateful to notice discrimination.
I think it's hateful to discriminate on the basis of race.
But I don't think that saying, "hey, naming your kid that may set him or her up for more discrimination" is in itself a hateful statement. It would be hateful to discriminate that way yourself, and it may be stupid to think your opinion matters in what other people name their kids.
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