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2026-07-10 19:24 UTC

We really need to recognize that kids are a marginalized group of vulnerable people who are, as a class, oppressed by adults, as a class. I think there's really no shorthand around it, we just need to subject anything that targets kids to a lot more scrutiny, in the same way we at least hypothetically scrutinize anything targeting a marginalized group to a greater degree. Adults who prey on children in the ways we recognize as predatory *and* adults who enforce systems of dominance and control to "protect" children are fundamentally similar, even though the latter often raises the spectre of the former as justification. Both are united by their wielding of power over children as a class. Nevermind that very often the former finds it much easier to prey on children because of the isolation and immiseration the latter subjects children to.

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@octonion@tech.lgbt 2026-07-11 16:38

@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy53s5b3xkA > I hesitate to give many concrete examples of what changes we should make for children. Because I'm not a child. I'll just be designing around an idyllic image of a child. But children aren't an idea. They're a cohort. They can tell us what they want. > We should invite children to the table and not tokenistically but with the intention of actually engaging and taking them seriously. Otherwise, we'll keep perpetuating an unfair adult framework, as Abood puts it: "If children and youth do not have a way to empower themselves and shape their communities, they will remain victims of an adult world that has continuously demonstrated that it does not care."

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