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06.06.2023 - 08:38 / perezhilton.com
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]The new docuseries on the Duggars was released over the weekend, and along with all the bombshells dropped by the family themselves, viewers have THOUGHTS about one specific scene.
As Perezcious readers know, Prime Video‘s four-part doc Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets has had jaws on the floor since even before it got released on Friday. In the trailer alone we saw some pretty wild and horrific accusations against not only parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar but against their religious sect, the Institute of Basic Life Principles (or IBLP). And now, the parents and their beliefs are once again being criticized by viewers over one unnerving scene in particular…
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In a clip from the doc, 56-year-old matriarch Michelle takes the stage at an IBLP parenting conference in 2014. While speaking to the room of attendees, she explains their method of parenting and way of life was something to be amazed by, saying:
Then, on a screen behind her a clip of what Michelle refers to as “sweet” plays — and viewers don’t find it to be sweet at all! Showing a rarely-seen and now 13-year-old Josie Duggar as just a toddler, standing in a pink dress in front of a toilet, the TLC star encourages her youngest child to “say it again,” to which the baby girl raises her arms and chants:
Uh…
Yeah, that’s not something you expect to hear out of a toddler’s mouth! Even older kids would have trouble understanding what that means, much less a child at this age. It’s clearly indoctrination on their part — which, according to the doc, is exactly what they were striving for!
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