The support groups for this stuff are cavalcades of horror stories. I hope for the sake of everyone involved that I’m just too close to the situation personally to see it clearly, but I fully believe the way we treat foster kids in the United States will be remembered much like we now look back on places like
As someone who’s been involved in the foster care system in the United States, the vast majority of Americans have no idea what it looks like for a government to shove children through its rusting bureaucratic machine. How do you make sure all of the kids are properly documented? What infrastructure do you have to keep them safe until you can find a more permanent placement? What sources of truth do you have for which parents have which kids? If they conflict, what do you do? How do you make sure the people volunteering or being paid to orchestrate the logistics of this system aren’t joining specifically to have more access to young children who will be hard to get justice for if they’re trafficked? How do you provide resources to the kids so they’re not living in squalor under your care? How do you audit those resources so they’re being used properly?
None of these are easy questions but they are all ones which the US has answered again and again for decades. With immigration policy, with Child Protective Services, with custody disputes, with juvenile detention, with educational discipline. They have been answered over and over again. If you’re curious, the answer tends to be abuse, neglect, and underfunding. It’s not too much of an ask to fuck over families of color, though.
But I’m not surprised that Americans react in horror at seeing what it looks like to relocate large amount of children in the middle of a war. They have no idea that these same problems are happening every single day where they live and that their government is FAILING constantly. These people are the runoff and we’re trained to not pay attention to runoff. And I mean REAL attention, not reading about them in an article or watching a TikTok about them and then immediately putting them from your mind. I love that people care about human suffering. It tears me apart that that empathy is so easily manipulated into supporting destruction.
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
You don’t understand! We were giving the infants to 12 year old girls for safe keeping! They were just throwing the babies in sacks and tossing them across the border, presumably!
I’m tired of seeing people accuse us of being nationalists and then going off about how Russian orcs are subhuman and deserve to die for the crimes of their leaders. It’s still nationalism when you use national affiliation to excuse the loss of life.
The adults is interact most with in my life are my wife, her sister, and their mom. All three of these women are jumpy as fuck. I’ve gotten into the habit of entering a room really loudly so they know I’m coming and half the time they still jump when they see me. It’s giving me a fucking complex.
It looks like most of that’s because we haven’t been federated long enough to see the rest of the fediverse’s big posts. But comparing the list to lemmy.ml’s list, we still have 9 out of the top 10.
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Something exciting about it for sure