RE: The Absurd GOP
March 6, 2023 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2023 at 12:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's already fine. It's for usamerican children (though I do realize that this category has broad overlap to some minds with immigrant children)..it probably helps to have the cover of casual racism, for sure. So long as The Whites can believe, for terrible reasons, that this legislation is aimed at The Other - then it won't trigger their weirdness about kids and they'll think it's a culture warrior doing battle for their interests. It happening all over the place, though. The current trend is to make it easier to employ children and harder to recover from negligent business practices that might, you know...kill a child. The method is enhancing perceptions of volunteerism. Of increasing the range of waivable risks. The kid wants to do it - maybe for a college application, maybe for experience, maybe..if they're lucky enough to find "good" employment to buy something they want. More often, though, kids go to work because they're hungry. Literally hungry. Volunteerism sounds less plausible in mere reality. The risks seem pretty well demonstrated. We've been here before.
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