I am seeing a worrying number of caes of parents doing one of the following:

  • forcing their aEsThEtIc on their kids;
  • giving them iPads when they are young and letting the internet do the babysitting for them;
  • giving what I describe as alarming parenting advice;
  • normalizing corporal punishment (i.e. child abuse);
  • family vlogs being done for profit, etc;

Now granted these are consequences of capitalism but these types parents still need to be torn to shreds.

  • @ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
    17•7 months ago

    seen, heard.

    I saw first hand the radicalizing right wing effect the tabloid newspapers had on my small town parents. They would pull there car over and throw rocks at immigrants returning from farms working for 2-3 pounds an hour, yelling at them to return to there own country; right after reading a newspaper that had a 18 y/o’s tits out on the 2nd page and on the frontpage ‘RAPIST POLISH PEOPLE STEALING YOUR JOBS’

    Both are permantly unemployed…

      • @ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
        10•7 months ago

        It was a common rhetoric around 2010 in the run up to the Brexit vote. News papers would pump out daily stories about polish rapists and immigrants stealing housing, jobs and women; Polish people got the brunt of it as they where the most visible nationality who would come and fufill jobs working class people here wont do because they are too exploitative.

        I would work on the same farms as the polish people and talk/make friends with them; they got 700 quid a month for 6 days of back breaking labour in strawberry fields, then the farmer would deduct 400 quid a month for renting them a caravan on site they would sleep in 5-6 a peice, with a few people having to sleep on the floor; in total they would send what little money they had, usually 100-200 back to there famalies.

        Understandbly, no one but the poorest locals would do these jobs.

          • @ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
            3•7 months ago

            My perspective, I will admit is quite a unique one; I grew up underclass, born in the early 90s. This pov is from 2010 to a single abusive mother in a small town; my dad was a gang member.

            This put me on the road to socialism though, I saw from a young age the havoc and confusion that right wing governments played on my parents through the state apparatus, and the consequences of it.

  • @slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17•7 months ago

    Shitty parents will always be shitty. I believe theres a lot of collective generational trauma that needs unpacking. But also, I’m just 3 racoons in a trenchcoat.

  • @Halasham@dormi.zone
    12•7 months ago

    This is one of the extremely few cases where I’m not sure if it’s Capitalism made it worse or there was just always some proportion of parents who were thing abhorrent.

    • I’m not sure of cases of ‘aEsThEtIc’ being forced on children of times past, though it may more simply have been that their parent’s was the only option not just for reasons of authoritarianism.
    • Not parenting one’s children and instead leaving them to ‘thing of the day/age’ isn’t exactly new. I recall stories of children being expelled from the home and left unsupervised until they were expected to come home of their own volition at the end of the day.
    • Without knowing what you mean by ‘alarming parenting advice’ I can’t really comment on that but what immediately comes to mind is religious commands to murder children who were insufficiently deferential to their parents.
    • Additionally to murder beatings were also prescribed for children in the books of vile darkness.
    • This one might actually be some abhorrence unique to capitalism.