The "Healthy Slap" — A Political Disgrace

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Herbert Kickl is calling for a “healthy slap” for children.

The adjective is a rhetorical trick. It is meant to turn violence into medicine. As if there were a sick slap and a healthy one. As if the boundary between discipline and abuse were a matter of dosage.

It is not.

Children can never help it. They do what parents, surroundings, and culture have taught them. Every “difficult” behaviour in a child is a message about the system in which it lives.

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The "Healthy Slap" — A Political Disgrace