I started elementary (the open source project) as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high
We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?
@danirabbit lock them in the closet until they're 18 (?)
@tranquillity @danirabbit i think that's genuinely what those people want
@tragivictoria @tranquillity @danirabbit They’re not content with keeping kids in the metaphorical closet, they gotta lock them in a literal closet too
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But when they are released at 18, they must be perfectly fitting in members of the society. ☝️
@kawunngg @danirabbit yep, gotta magically figure it out :>
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Not necessarily. Not as long as there are for-profit prisons.
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