Mastodawn

They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡

The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it.🤷🏿‍♂️

The solve for "Sometimes when a service like free childcare is available to all, marginalized communities get squeezed out," is "Address that racism."

It's not "Therefore waste incredible amounts of time and money trying to means test something that society should just make available to all.🤡"

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DavidM_yeg Apr 4

@mekkaokereke

“universal child care”

It’s right there in the name … “universal”
If you exclude rich kids it isn’t universal.

But once you’ve accepted that some kids aren’t part of “universal” then you have accepted the supremacist frame: that some kids count and others don’t.

It’s a classic bait and switch. Next comes the excuses to exclude poor kids, or black kids, or indian kids, or muslim kids, or whoever they don’t see truly human.

#HumanRights #Supremacy

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iwein

@DavidM_yeg
Food is not a privilege.

The implications of teaching anything else to kids are really scary.

I mean what ignorant adult would teach our kids that food is a privilege and then grow old and feeble and become a burden on society 🤦‍♀️

@mekkaokereke