Questioning our assumptions about child labor
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Questioning our assumptions about child labor
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lol, This country has ruined my brain
I was shocked that an article titled "Questioning our assumptions about child labor" from a website called Freedom United was actually anti-child labor :amerikkka-clap:
Whoops, I didn't read far enough in it seems...at least my shock was well warranted
And most importantly, what do working children and children exposed to child labor actually want for themselves and their families?
But what if the child consents tho?
June 12 is World Day Against Child Labour
Am I missing something or is this article some weird radlib shit about child labor being good?
@DivineChaos100 did you mean to post this in dunktank or do you, like, agree with it?
Haven't read it yet, but judging by your other comment it's ancap cringe?
If it's shit i am more than happy to repost it to dunk_tank it just seemed interesting.
yes, it’s ancap dressed up as woke leftism
… you haven’t read it, but you posted it?
When campaigning against the exploitation of children, we sometimes risk falling into the trap of presenting child labor as an inherently evil phenomenon which should be stamped out entirely.
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It’s worth noting the role of the ‘white savior complex’ in this oversimplification. Many organizations and individuals who campaign against child labor are based in the Global North whereas child labor is most prevalent in communities in the Global South
:fry:
by banning children from working without addressing the factors that motivate them to work, we risk causing real harm to them and their families.
Sort of agree with this
we believe it is crucial to seek out and pay attention to the voices of people with lived experience.
This is correct… although framed extremely weird in context of the article
Existing initiatives are already platforming the voices and requests of working children from around the world. “It’s Time to Talk!” was a global project, originally initiated by German NGOs Kindernothilfe and Terre des Hommes, that consulted more than 1,800 working children worldwide.
Oh my god this is a puff piece written for a child slavery NGO group
For more on this topic, watch our webinar, Do children have the right to decent work?
Holy fucking shit
Now that most child trafficking narratives have been discredited they need a new grift. Actually solving the problem would put them out of a job so they got to address it in the most ineffectual ways. Complicating the matter of child labor is a wonderful make-work effort to maintain unnecessary bureaucratic NGO positions for failsons and daughters around the world. It's all neoliberalist drivel to make people feel good about doing less.
I have no idea what level of bullshit ideology poison a person would need to have to think this article was a remotely coherent concept
I’ve worked with actual poverty alleviation and this article has me so pissed off I’m dropping the bernie bit in this thread. Holy shit
Other “sources” sited:
“Are adults willing to listen to children on child labour? Working children have the right to policies informed by their views and best interests”
Best interests according to who? If you ask a child who is desperately struggling to help keep their underpaid family alive, then yes, they’ll say that. They are also literal children.
The scab leader from Disco Elysium shouting “Right to work!” except he’s disguised as an excessively buff toddler
was expecting a rehash of “should kids do chores”, not “was charles dickens a privileged white savior who denied children the right to die of coal lung and rare metal poisoning”
I wonder why child labor is more prominent in the global south 🧐
:eco-porky: “Must be woke sjw tankies getting in the way of empowering children to disrupt conventional industry so we can innovate with their deliciously exploitable bones”
