The return of child labor is right up there with the loss of abortion rights in terms of shocking backslides but people don't seem to care as much about it.
The return of child labor is right up there with the loss of abortion rights in terms of shocking backslides but people don't seem to care as much about it.
I know it is not the case, but I genuinely wonder sometimes if they are doing the grooming fearmongering to distract from child labor law reversing
When you understand that they view children as their property instead of as young individual people, the picture starts to come into focus. "Grooming" is their scare word for a subset of things that reduce their own dominion over their children, but the wider set of things that do that includes "laws that make your 11-year-old take a spanish class instead of going to a meatpacking plant to earn you money"
This is not even a secret. I noticed this a lot reading through articles, how often they proudly talk about "giving control back to the parents". Conservatives want absolute control over their children and every aspect of their lives. That's why they can call gay people groomers and then turn around and advocate for child marriage without missing a beat. Marrying your daughter off when she's 14 is great, because it means you get to decide who she marries before she's old enough to get her own ideas.
It's not a secret, but it can difficult to grasp it because it's a completely fucking alien mindset to us.
It is also why they freak out so much about them going off to college and them coming back hating them or even just going to school in general.