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The golden years
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Oh yes, the 8 hours of those 180 days I wasn't the explicit property of my parents, and was instead the explicit property of the school system.
Truly those are the golden years /s
Nostalgia for not having to pay bills at the expense of personal freedom and an ability to choose is an easy way for me to sus out whether someone is a fascist or not.
Are you seriously calling this person a fascist simply for looking back on their childhood with fondness?
If you look back on being enslaved fondly, perhaps you should reconsider your ethos.
If you think receiving an education is on par with being enslaved, you are so far out of touch that I don't think you can be helped. You clearly have no idea how badly some people have it in life. Get a grip, dude.
Nationalist Propaganda isn't "an education".
And just because people can have it worse than I have it, doesn't automatically make my points invalid.
That is genuinely one of the most deranged comments I've seen on here, so congrats, I guess
Is it so deranged?
I'd rather be living paycheck to paycheck, uncertain of my next meal, but able to think my own thoughts and live my own life, than to EVER go back to being a slave for someone simply because they were related to me.
I think you might need therapy. It's not normal to compare your parents to fascist slave-drivers. It's not normal to describe your childhood as enslavement. It's certainly not normal to read an all too common musing such as "remember the good ol' days when we didn't have as many responsibilities and everything felt simpler" and go off on all these bizarro tangents about fascism, freedom of thought, and slavery. I hope you can work through whatever issues are setting you off.
I understand your instinct that this is a one-off situation.
But this is common behavior in the U.S.
As I explained in another comment, this is socially enforced as well as through laws.
Typically impoverished families will be coerced into this behavior, and wealthier families whole-heartedly believe in this behavior.
Childhood isn't Freedom here. It's the years of your life in which the law requires you to be under surveillance, indoctrinated, and strictly following dress code and acceptable haircuts.
Not less than 2 months ago, a kid was punished and moved into a reformatory school because he committed the ungodly crime of having an unapproved haircut.
What? Could you explain the fascism connection?
If you say you'd rather go back to being told when to wake up, go to bed, when to eat, what to eat, what you can and can't say, what you can and can't believe, what clothes you can and can't wear, what haircut you have to have, what you can watch, when and where you could go, being required to be monitored, being under non-stop workload, and even what you're supposed to be when you're an adult...
You're a fascist and you want your kids to believe this is freedom.
This is textbook slavery. Sure, all your expenses and care are covered. But you also don't have to worry about thinking either, they do that for you too.
I went to a Catholic, private high school and it wasn't that strict. I went to a public university and it wasn't that strict, I have no idea of what you're talking about. I'm wondering if you went to a military school and/or your parents were terrible humans.
For those who cannot afford private school, we have to obey laws to the letter. And even then risk being punished.
U.S. Laws make it so that your child MUST be treated like property, and to be given as little freedom as possible. Otherwise CPS can and will be called. And everyday this continues to worsen in the U.S.
If you have money, most won't even bother. But public school teachers and officials can clearly see who has money and who doesn't. Whether or not your parents are good or terrible is irrelevant.
This issue is Systemic.
My parents couldn't afford it either, we were not rich. Private schools are stricter from my experience.