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"Bad" Black Kids & Plantation Parenting - Sunn M'Cheaux
Vulnerable little mammals, kids, ought to be safe from grown folks' + police brutality.
"Only the strong survive" might get us through some horrors but not unscathed.
#education #kids #adultification #epigenetics #history #innocence #Parenting #community #AdultSupremacy #Trauma #SchoolToPrisonPipeline
#CorporalPunishment
#ChildAbuse #nonconsensual #Spanking #Whooping #Hitting #EmotionalAbuse
#BreakingGenerationalCurses
#BlackMastodon

If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.

On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.

I know the "reasonable and realistic" thing we do is let the sociopaths guide our way into the future but it's the youngest who'll deal with the worst consequences of all these bad choices.

Maybe listen to the kids.
Fun fact: They mostly agree with scientists.

#ClimateCrisis #adultSupremacy #YouthLiberation

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Children’s voices must be heard on climate crisis, says UN rights bodyBy Isabella Kaminski

Once again requesting people don't refer to mean spirited assholes or bullies like Musk or Trump as "babies" or "children".

Children (and babies) are generally awesome, curious, caring and sensitive beings. Most importantly: they are learning.

They notice when we use words that refer to them as insults or with derision. They wonder what is wrong with being a child.

There is NOTHING wrong with being a child.

Please do not perpetuate #Ageism or #AdultSupremacy with careless language.

Thank u!

Pay attention to the way Musk fans and opponents mock and characterise each other.

You'll notice the #AdultSupremacy and #ageism that we have normalised.

Words like childish or baby; lazy tropes about childhood are flung as attacks revealing the way we think about the young.

Kids are generally kind, bright and curious. They do not deserve to be used as insults.

You might not notice, but they do. And when you insult someone by calling them a child, they wonder how you really feel about them.

What I am currently reading and reading next.

So in the past few weeks I've listened to a couple of podcasts by @srslywrong on adult supremacy / youth liberation. One which had as a guest Pearson from @coffeewithcomrades. Prior to this I was rather clueless on this, but it all made sense to me and was amazed it had escaped me for so long.

So as I follow-up a couple days ago I started reading "No! Against Adult Supremacy - Anthology" by Active Distribution which contains 20 issues of the Against Adult Supremacy zine full of various essays and interviews. I had been reading the interview with carla bergman in issue 2 and then at work was listening to Ep. 180 of
Coffee With Comrades - "Solidarity Begins at Home" with ... carla bergman. Is the universe trying to grab my attention? As it just happens, the next book on my reading list is in fact "Trust Kids!" by carla bergman published by AK Press which I am now really, really, looking forward to reading once I finish this current anthology. But currently just finishing Issue 3 of "No! Against Adult Supremacy". So far each issue has had a number of relevant insights to me, or at least a connecting together of separate lines of thought I had been aware of but not connected in the way they are here. One essay that has really struck me (as a so called adult) is "You Did Not Turn Fine" by James C. Talbot. "Struck" as in a flash of realization regarding my own upbringing and result. So would highly recommend these collections.