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 @b870d4c8 Is the latter claim entirely false? *Most* countries' "social services" programs around children disproportionately separate children who are not of the majority race or religion from their parents, to the point I'd say the claim is by default true unless the system has not separated any at all.

This isn't to support bad regimes' propaganda claims, just to avoid doing fallout damage by denying real injustices they coopt. 
 @2b562a3e yes, there are different treatment and outcomes in social services but this conspiracy theory isn't about that, it's a very specific one that's been pushed by an international islamist network. See also the similar conspiracy in Russia that Finland is kidnapping Russian children and forcing them to be gay. It's a conservative conspiracy about moral pollution. 
 @b870d4c8 Ahh, that makes a lot more sense. Is there a clearer way to characterize that so it's not confusable with how I read it? The "social services kidnapping children" characterization seems to lend itself to misinterpretation that supports the propaganda. 
 @2b562a3e maybe, but I'm too tired to think of a way to do it :)