Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Boris Reitschuster’s website. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Is breastfeeding babies now also right-wing radicalism?

Crazier, always

That the culture warriors from red-green and from the “woke” corner have declared war on our traditions and society as we know it is nothing new. But how far this fight goes never ceases to amaze. Because the core cell of our society is particularly in the sights of the cultural revolutionaries: the family. And with it the traditional coexistence and parenthood.

“Carrying the child in a sling, sleeping in the family bed, generally experiencing a lot of closeness to the child — all of this is part of attachment-oriented upbringing. But suddenly there is a connection to right-wing extremism,” writes Frédéric Schwilden in Die Welt. The trigger for his outrage: An author in Die Zeit, who studied social sciences (whether with or without a degree is not mentioned), wrote about the connections between “bond-oriented education” and right-wing extremism. Under the heading “Attachment Parenting: How Education Becomes a Substitute Ideology,” it says: “Attachment-oriented parenting is considered gentle and mindful, but is also Western and elitist. That increasingly appeals to right-wing extremists.”

One of the subliminal messages of the article, which stands behind a paywall, is: Those who demand that a child should be with the mother in the first three years of life, who is against “supposed early sexualization in schools”, “queer education”, “marriage for all” or the “transgender hype” tends to make him/herself suspicious.

The attachment-oriented parenting scene has been infiltrated, the text says: “And by the right. Even more: The bubble has a ‘Nazi problem’.” The author goes on to write: “Contrary to their loudest voices, the majority of the scene is neither liberal nor diverse. It is mainly white middle-class women who negotiate what motherhood means, who is responsible for the children and what follows from it. Including only a few mothers who see themselves as feminists or anti-racists… and finally women who are concerned with honoring the traditional role of mothering.”

Is that a crime?

The rhetoric of secure attachment is “specifically used there to make conservative and often mother-centric politics, which is partly characterized by a biological family image,” the article continues.

Bad message

Schwilden sums up the quintessence of the rather cumbersome Zeit text, which looks a bit like something out of a church convention writing workshop, as follows: attachment-oriented upbringing involves a lot of closeness to the child so that one might have a better bond with them. Breastfeeding. Sleeping together in bed. Carry in a sling close to the body. And especially, which is the core of the text: right-wingers would “do that now too.” [Funny, African women also do that. I see it every day. Although I haven’t noticed them sporting a swastika armband so far.]

You can also read passages such as this: “The new right no longer raise their children with harshness and drill, but present themselves as gentle and devoted parents. Many parents feel unsettled by this, some are disparaged. Surely you are not a Nazi if you breastfeed your child for a long time or if you want to stay at home with the children as a woman? Of course not. But what does natural mean? That’s what it’s about.”

As early as 2018, the Amadeu Antonio Foundation around ex-Stasi IM Anetta Kahane published a brochure, co-financed by the state, as a guide for educators to identify allegedly racist and xenophobic ideas in children’s heads. It explains, for example, how to recognize “children from ethnic families”: “The girls wear dresses and braids, they are instructed in housework and handicrafts at home, the boys are physically challenged.” For such suspected cases, it was recommended that “the parents are to be invited to a face-to-face meeting in the day-care center” in order to explain to them how “authoritarian and gender-stereotypical upbringing styles limit the diverse possibilities of children”. [Your tax euros are hard at work here.]

In these times, whenever you think that nothing can surprise you anymore, you will be taught otherwise. The connections are quite easy to see through. Because the red-green-woke worldview is imploding before everyone’s eyes and more and more people are saying that the ideologues are naked, they are defending themselves more and more desperately and with increasingly absurd tricks. Everything that doesn’t fit with their illusory world and reminds them of reality is devalued — especially as “right-wing extremist”. This can’t go well forever.

Afterword from the translator:

The most important thing is that we don’t let the media and puppeticians, who spread these crude theses, divide us or set us against each other, and we should always question things critically — who am I trying to kid here? The same bad actors and the same approach, as always. “DIVIDE ET IMPERA” It worked with Corona and that should be a warning to anyone with common sense that it will also be used for future crises that are conjured up, because they will not stop with this until we stop them — it is their business model, after all.