This bill is completely disgusting and exploitative. We’re talking about Florida, though, so I expected it to pass.
I want to shove bamboo under the fingernails of that asshole who was likening child labor to a “part time job”.
Republican state Senator Jay Collins, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure was about parental rights: “We should let them say what’s best for their kids at 16- to 17-year-olds, that’s what we’re saying by this.”
Anyone who puts forth a measure aimed at “parental rights”, it’s always something that’s aimed at parents’ right to treat their children like property
Every one of these is always “Parent’s Rights Act” and the text is like “murdering your gay/trans 10-year-old is now totally legal”.
“My kids are in need of a proper traditional upbringing, which means locking them in a box and tenderizing them like veal, until they’re old enough to be sold at auction.”
It would also have scrapped required 30-minute meal breaks
It’s a parent’s right to make sure their child works an 8 hour shift with no breaks! Breaks are socialism!
They’ve already scrapped mandatory water breaks for outside workers :(
So let’s make the jobs nobody wants to do even worse while we deport the few remaining people willing to do them.
Then try and get notoriously hard working and focused teenagers to do it.
Like how is the female property to keep the children in line if the children aren’t also property?
statesparents rights!Why is it always about slavery?
Funny how you never hear them say “parental responsibilities.”
"You should be able to give your child a job at a slave wage in awful conditions. That’s a parental decision.
“What if I want to give my child the opportunity to explore their gender identity? Thats a parental decision too.”
“Off to the gulag with you all.”
Newsweek states on their own website that this article is unfairly leaning left. What a strange editorial decision.
It’s an unfortunately looking vote gauge (it’s like a poll where readers decide whether it does lean on either side or not), not their opinion about the article.
yeah, it appears that they just took some generic gauge animation, in which arrows always tend to start on the left-hand side (think any of the gauges in your car.) Once you vote it does tell you that the most popular opinion is that it’s center/fair
Its a design decision that is bafflingly stupid. People will use this as evidence of bias.
That’s how Newsweek works now.
what’s the news here? They are basically using the same arguments the US used to not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Minors being the parents property is still an almost uncontroversial position in the US even if people don’t phrase it like that.
See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.
Every last one of those places needs to be burned down, the staff and investors should be hanged.
The news is that USA is still a disgusting labor camp. Always has been.
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There’s I think a dollop on the brassero program that details a past program where they’d ship high schoolers to farms for the summer in an attempt to reduce migratory workers. The program failed immediately. Conservatives are insane in the literal definition of the word.
I haven’t listened to the dollop in a minute but I’m pretty sure that same episode is literally about the first wave of illegal immigration propaganda in the US, talks about how the borders changed in the 1930s.
I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.
The fact that “how it used to be” in your childhood produced a scumbag like you is a compelling argument to not let people’s childhoods be like that anymore.
I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.
Also, this is complete and utter bullshit. I’m older than Ron boy, and child labor laws predate me. The folks picking crops in the fields in the 80’s and 90’s were the same immigrants that are (or were, I guess) doing it today. And anyone who attended Yale almost certainly wasn’t out picking crops as a kid. Like most members of the GOP, he has zero attachment to reality.
“I was beaten as a child and I ended up fine” says man who beats children.
Brand new sentence???!!!
…what about DeSantis Dachau?..plenty of labour there…
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
Paw… I think I got the black lung
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What is this comment supposed to mean?
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So what has changed? What’s outdated here?
(jfc why do i waste my time…)
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this is !nottheonion, not !news, so who cares the fuck about a few weeks. and noone had to dig for this because the internet is NOT structured like the trashheap next to your computer.
I can’t wait to be out of Florida
Best decision I ever made
Next step: to the jails and concentration camps for slave labor.
Good thing the north left a loophole in the constitution after the civil war just for a situation like this.
Some things never change.
You should pay more attention because we’ve already been doing that this whole time.
Also, anyone who wants to access government services. Want Medicaid? Work in the fields. Want Social Security? Work in the fields. Want Food Stamps? Work in the fields? Want Medicare? Work in the fields. Etc.
If you already have a couple of jobs, send your children to the fields. It’s not like they’re getting a useful education anyway. Most of it will be MAGA propaganda about how much better it is for kids to work in the fields instead of the classroom, because it keeps the evil foreigners out of our country.
Not surprising. They didn’t plan ahead whatsoever and thought “it’ll all work out” as if Conservative promises held more weight than the hot air required to speak them.
Well, the reason it didn’t work out now is obviously the Democrats somehow.
lol do American politicians seriously try to frame child labor laws as taking away parents rights?
When I was a kid, my mom was outraged that somebody made the statement, “children aren’t their parent’s property.”
So, yeahCurrently every politician making a name for themselves will frame anything they can in any way they can. Words have little meaning lately so you just say whatever the fuck you want and worry about the angle later.
It’s just embarrassing for people that this works on. So stupid.
Of course! Especially those from the party that wants crops to be picked, but doesn’t want anyone who would actually do it to exist or survive in our country. And because the term “child labor” in general is unpalatable to most people. For good reason…
Sounds like a right nightmare ya got goin on there bud
Yeah, it’s not great here… Unless you’re a billionaire and want to exploit people!
In ancent rome there was a law,that went something like “you cannot sell your son into slavery a third time”. Americans would see that as a violation of parental rights
Third? The fuck did someone do to cause that?! Was there some dude who sold his son into slavery and then said son got out of slavery at least three times so the Romans had to pass a law to keep that from happening again? Why do I get the feeling Crassus was involved.
part of the conservative ideology is that children are property and should be molested, not heard.
