• TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    “paternalism”

    I’m a father myself and if my kid was out on the street, you can bet your ass I would be too, because as long as I have a roof, so do they.

    How did paternalism come to mean patronizing those who are less capable and treating them like subhuman chattel, instead of treating them like someone we love in our care?

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      5 days ago

      It was a critique of the idea that the Great Men were doing the childlike savage an immense service by taking over their lands and setting up the complicated systems of bureaucracy and industry that they were too infantile to grasp. And, of course, when any child speaks out of turn or acts out, they must be punished.