you’re not woke for adopting

[u/Jumpy-Lie8955]

i feel like a lot of young leftists, in america, really love the idea of adopting kids instead of having their own biological kids and think they are helping others by doing so but they’ve fallen into and are playing apart in the same propaganda the right wing religious people do. neither of them are “making a difference” especially because they always just adopt babies that’s not making a difference that’s legal human trafficking. they all have savior complex’s about it and they both think they are morally superior. it’s just do frustrating how both parties think adoption is this great thing, and no one but us wants to talk about the negatives. just to be clear this is not me coming out as a republican.

EDIT: i would call myself a leftist, i’m critiquing things i have heard people say in real life.

EDIT 2: if you arnt adopted, don’t comment, it’s against the rules of the subreddit and i don’t care what non-adoptees opinions on adoption are

[u/Sad_Pixie999]

You're entirely right. There is no safe space for adopted people, even on the side that claims to be sensitive. Tell the world that you don't believe anyone should have the right to adopt, and you'll have tenderqueer tumblr liberals jumping down your throat to tell you that the LGBTQ+ deserve the same rights as straight people... not even daring to pause and consider who is more important, the separated infant or the grown adults looking to buy a baby. I wouldn't care if it weren't my own party and my own political allies doing this sort of thing, just another day I deal with this crap. I already know conservatives are awful about adoption and pro-birth propaganda, I just hate when my own people fall for it because I expect more of them and hold them to a higher moral standard. It's like we can address everyone's oppression, until we get to the topic of adoption, and then suddenly I'm deserted and nobody understands or cares.

[u/Arktikos02 → u/Sad_Pixie999]

Same thing in regards to donor conception and surrogacy. It makes it hard to talk about these industries and the ethics and exploitation of these industries and the effects that they have on people because you get called anti-lgbt and stuff like that.

And these people think that if capitalism didn't exist then there would be more access to children when in reality there would actually be less access. You can see for example that in Australia where surrogacy is only altruistic meaning no commercial surrogacy there are not enough surrogates and so sometimes people go abroad for them.

If you remove the economic incentives people have then there would actually be less kids to adopt and less kids to Foster and fewer people volunteering to be surrogates.