• LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    immediately seeing comments with 100s of upvotes blaming these kids for having “zero work-ethic” and no “grit” and how they’re being given too much grace blah blah blah

    Yeah! Why won’t these checks notes infant children pull themselves up by their own bootstraps!? what-the-hell

    • Marxism_Sympathizer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      12 hours ago

      these particular commenters were going off middle schoolers/high schoolers i believe, however i wouldnt be surprised, they were complaining about the amount of “handholding” in society keeping kids from doing sports or whatever. it wasnt all bad, there were a few commenters accurately pointing out that it was more likely how expensive it was and wealth inequality, and even a couple pointing out that the “laziness” people are seeing from kids is actually probably rational apathy towards the system’s obvious decay that they can see every day on their phone screens, but those comments arent shitting on some of the most vulnerable members of society so they arent getting showered in 100s of upvotes

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          11 hours ago

          should i blame the government for forcing huge classrooms of working class children on me instead of either increasing their parents’ wages or instituting universal pre-k? thinking-about-it

          no, it’s the parents fault for being evil (because they’re poor!!!) i-am-adolf-hitler

          • average “teacher” on r/teachers

          (god i hope 99% of the commenters on there arent actually teachers)