Children Who Play With Legos are Capitalist Pigs

I never thought that the idiots on the left would see a harmless toy like Legos as a tool of capitalist oppression. But the moonbats never cease to amaze me. It turns out that some after-school daycare workers at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle became concerned that their young subjects were developing an "unjust and oppressive" society built out of Legos:

the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive. As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.

That is definitely something to worry about. We can't have those young, impressionable kids developing notions of free enterprise and personal responsibility, can we?

Tragedy struck and the Legotown that these capitalist oppressors were building was destroyed! The teachers of this progressive day care center seized the opportunity:

We saw the decimation of Lego-town as an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded. Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.

The teachers decided to "liberate" the Legos by removing them from the classroom:

We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity — whether we interceded or not. We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children's understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the Legos out of the classroom.

Legos were finally brought back, but only to be played with under certain "progressive" rules:

All structures are public structures. Everyone can use all the Lego structures. But only the builder or people who have her or his permission are allowed to change a structure.
Lego people can be saved only by a "team" of kids, not by individuals.
All structures will be standard sizes.

So what happens to the kids who do not "collaborate" with the "team"? Are they sent to a timeout in the daycare version of Vorkuta?

When I think of some of the sick, twisted minds who are taking care of our kids, I feel very ill.

Hat tip to John Miller at NRO.