Cassandra is only carbon nowSome ally'all don't appreciate how devastating the "BONG HITS FOR JESUS" case was, and it shows.
(Some ally'all *do* understand, tho, and that shows too.)
This might sound like a shitpost, but I promise you it's not. In 2007, the Supreme Court held 5–4 that children do not have First Amendment rights, in that a school is legally allowed to censor their speech *even when said children are not at school*.
It's obviously not the case that children only lost their Constitutional rights in the US starting in 2007, but the Supreme Court deciding precedent that kids are effectively subhuman when it comes to legal rights was a huge turning point.
There's something truly toxic and fucked up about the idea that children aren't independent people whom we owe a responsibility to, but are effectively a kind of property that can be controlled and coerced.
That view, enshrined in the incredibly fucked up framing of "parents' rights," is the same view that runs through KOSA, the UK's new censorship regime, YouTube's new "AI" filter, and so many other things.
Asbestos@xgranade
it ties in with the financial responsibility. I guess people figure if they're paying for their kid, they own them, sort of. Which is quite fucked up, as you say.
it ties in with the financial responsibility. I guess people figure if they're paying for their kid, they own them, sort of. Which is quite fucked up, as you say.
Nicky🦨✌️@Asbestos @xgranade very true. Children are seen as investments and tax deductions. That’s one reason people will do anything “to save their child” from legal repercussions —b/c their investment tanked. I guess it’s easier to view it that way rather than they failed to raise a decent person and instill values in them— I’ve debated school choice w/parents and it always comes down to i am going to pay someone to parent them b/c I don’t want a public servant to do that.
@xgranade
the school choice thing is often about control and indoctrination