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https://xcancel.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1934661884046921876

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

new news same as the old news in some ways. it's interesting how the medium changes, and that's probably what's new to analyze here, but the content is still the same as it has always been. within living memory, kids were running around their cities unsupervised for 12+ hours a day playing "cops and robbers" or the much more genocidal "cowboys and indians" and it has always had this exact same social dynamic. the kids are essentially acting out what they correctly understand to be the defining social dynamic of class society in the dying empire of a continent-spanning-and-genociding settler colony, and they always have. much of the work of schooling is to teach you to rationalize that which the children can act out without need for rationalization. the notion of digital protest against ice is also something that strikes me as novel here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have a theory that games like cowboys and Indians was invented by adults to reinforce the genocidal/oppressive mindset; then again if similar dynamics exist in games in non-Imperialist countries then this would be demonstrably untrue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I don’t think it’s that deep. A child’s dad will say something about “chasing off the Indians” and their first instinct would be to make a game out of it because they like to run around. Children are like sponges, they’ll pick up anything in their environment without needing strict indoctrination.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

pretty sure chasing games exist everywhere and are very old, unsure if "cowboys and indians" predates cowboy movies, or "cops and robbers" predates similar media

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I just watched a live interview with Taylor Lorenz. She said that everyone in the article was children between the age 11-17. She said that many of the children knew people who had been victims of ICE and some of the children were re-enacting things that they experienced.

She also said that one child was shouting "No human is illegal" and shooting at ICE in roblox.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

based antifa kid

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you link the interview please?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2488008145?t=02h43m44s

The interview starts at 2h43m. She mostly talks about promoting masking and covid vaccines. The part about the roblox article starts at 3h40m.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

promoting masking and Covid vaccines

I knew vaccines caused autism!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Oh dang, big pharma btfo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you think you've found a way to make kids stop making light of horrible shit then I have a bridge to sell you. It goes over the bay in Arizona

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

What's wrong with Ring Around the Rosie?!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Also on a more basic level I think kids are always going to find a power dynamic to replicate, because the ultimate goal is to create two sides in a game where one can give chase and the other can run away

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh good, I don't need to type out a comment of my own, that's basically everything I wanted to say.