Not hitting children should be a no-brainer nowadays, one might think.
And yet: Some months ago, I got into a shitstorm in YouTube comments for advocating against it under a video of a "misbehaving" child where the mom did essentially nothing.
There were >1000 comments and only one person besides me took a stand against child abuse.
What I found equally disturbing was the degree of internalised racism:
When I tried to explain that what the child was needing,
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