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Are kids even treated like humans? (lemmygrad.ml)
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So I've been thinking for a while about this subject, and I finally decided to make a post about this some time after I saw a YouTuber say what I put on the title of this post.

Thing is, I've noticed that very often young people and especially kids are treated as lesser beings, like if they were not humans beings with problems and lives of their own but just an annoyance that people have to keep up with.

I remember when I was a kid and I wanted to cross a zebra crossing cars would just pass by without stopping more often than not. Now that I'm an adult they stop pretty much every time. I suspect it was because they didn't want to stop for someone they consider to be lesser than them.

Also, a lot of people seem to think that being a kid means that you just play videogames or whatever all day, but don't these people remember when they were kids? I sure do. Going to school has been the worst thing I've ever had to endure. The only difference with having a job is that you don't get paid.

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[โ€“] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I support the concept of youth liberation. I can say without a doubt that if I had an "out" from my family, that I would have taken it. Aldous Huxley writes of a concept in his fiction novel Island, where families are assigned to a unit. If children need an escape from their immediate family, they're able to stay with other families in the unit. I think the saying "it takes a village" is true and we've been ignoring it for at least the last century here in the west.

[โ€“] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I take that phrase to be literal. I have a lot more to say in that regard and I'll update this later.

But the total atomization of the family under capitalism is, in my opinion, the underlying root cause of a lot of strife within our families.