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Fix My Kid - Trailer

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Samara:
It will be great for the family to see the finished product; what is available now is thought provoking! Richard has a great manner about him. The group dynamic is unsettling.  

What I really want though is for folks to understand that addict or regular kid, this is NOT humane, acceptable, or therapeutic. Period. I want the validation.

Froderik:

--- Quote from: "Samara" ---this is NOT humane, acceptable, or therapeutic [for anyone at all]. Period. I want the validation.
--- End quote ---

This always should have been face-slappingly obvious, but denial is a powerful thing.
(They want to hang on to what the program told them.)

Maybe this film will serve to rub people's noses in how bad it was?

Samara:
It just seems that having the visual representation and articulate discussion in a legitimized docu-setting might reach "believers" more readily. Before, it is too easy to shrug off "fucked up" kids.  They brought into the criminalization of youths, and thus their undeservability of having a voice.  This movie combined with the very real and obvious 20 year after effects should be somewhat convincing.

I think one of the freaky things still is how it operated out in the open. I mean it was sort of hidden in plain view, whereas a program like CEDU was in a remote setting. Even our groups were small. When we had raps, students were broken into randomized 10-15 kids and sequestered in different rooms for hours (good luck if you needed a rest room), and the overriding mandate is nothing said here leaves here. It was all secrecy shrouded in secrecy.  Parents were given the dog and pony show maybe every 3 or 4 months and they did not stay on campus.

My understanding is that Straight parents were more available but that the open family meetings were watered down - so they didn't understand that the Straight only meetings were as out of control and freaky as they were? Yes/No?  I'm sorry, but motivating is  a freak show. It reminds me of populaces living under tyranny that are required to show devotion to a regime with extreme gesticulations of undying submission.

Froderik:
I guess enough people haven't killed themselves? I suppose this movie had to me made not only to document American history, but to serve as a vehicle for understanding. Trust (provided there is that), and adequate verbal description can go some measure to "legitimize," but it is easier to pop in a dvd!

Yes, it was practically under people's noses...wtf?
I guess political endorsement goes a long way with those who believe they are being led (and then are led).

"Confidentiality" went a long way to cover their asses... didn't CEDU try to shut the kids up with something like that?

Samara:
"Confidentiality" was the hammer to enforce the therapeutic abuses. Therapeutic doesn't even belong in the equation. Therapeutic was a balls out blatant bullshit lie.

I agree with the DVD facilitation opportunity. And when your folks watch that film, is there any way they can NOT see that nut hole for what it is? I mean how do you invalidate any part of that program after watching this?

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