Capitalist, colonialist exploitation depends on traumatized children. It all depends on traumatized children, & it always has.
The Epstein class fights us on "social" issues because the logical result of respecting all people would be a world where people become hard to exploit & even harder to convince to do someone else's violence.
Without suffering, the power structure collapses. The suffering is necessary to the economic system.
The statement "We are not free until we are ALL free" includes kids: the permanent oppressed underclass.
Look, I have done a lot of childcare in my life. I understand that children CANNOT be allowed to do whatever they please. I don't want feral, untended children, but I do want kids who feel a sense of ownership over their own bodies & lives.
So many cycles of violence start with neglect, abuse, manipulation, & control in childhood.
This is why the duped henchmen of the Epstein class lose their fucking shit over basic "therapy" stuff like boundaries.
They say conversations about mental & emotional health are "woo-woo" & "wishy-washy" & silly, but they are fucking TERRIFIED of that shit.
The Epstein Class knows that an attack on social structures of abuse threatens to topple the whole exploitation system, & that's why they've enlisted so many soldiers in this fight.
The whole concept of capitalism requires humans to be uncooperative with each other. Meanwhile, human civilization developed because we are really, really fucking good at collaborating.
The math isn't mathing.
@artemis Capitalism actually only works, to the extent that it does, with high cooperation and high trust.
They're not interested in continuing capitalism.