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Communism was a large smothering blanket thrown across societies and suppressing primordial identities.
The woman, despite having been convicted of smothering her daughter in 1992 to stop her from crying, and who is still in prison after violating her sentence of probation (!) by engaging in credit card fraud, was nonetheless awarded custody by a judge citing the need of a child for his biological mother and his belief that because the boy is black, he'd be better off with his black mother than with the white woman who filed papers to adopt him.
He viewed the process of smothering the weakest companies and swallowing those that remained as a thoroughly Christian activity.
The NYT fronts the U.S. government's warning that parents should not sleep in the same bed with a child less than 2 years old because of the danger of accidental smothering or strangling.
On primordial identities: I don't believe in single identities, but there are root identities such as being a Basque, a Catalan, a Kurd, or an Occitan, especially when there is a need to assert such a root identity against a larger, sometimes more smothering polity or culture.