• Cheese_man@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.

    Today’s kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country’s economy. Capitalism is going great.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      We always have treated our children as disposable. It was difficult even to prohibit factory child labor, which faced serious resistance from the courts. Some states are even reversing that. (Agricultural child labor is still legal.)

      I good deep dive is the You’re Wrong About on Juvenile Justice (here on YouTube.)

      TL:DR we have a whole subset of crime for kids, delinquency which is stuff that’s a crime for kids to do, but not adults. And delinquency crimes are totally used as a pipeline to get kids into the prison industrial complex.

      Also, our public education system has always had containment as a priority. When kids are not working but their parents are, they get into mischief, and thus we needed somewhere to cage them. This, and not edification, is why school is mandatory.

      Children have fewer rights than adults do, and the law enforcement and the justice system takes full advantage of that to exploit kids.

      This is the United States of America.