Aurora Sky Castner, a Texas teen who was born in jail and graduated at the top of her class this week, will be attending Harvard University in the fall
I want you to pay attention to the community this is under. “Aboringdystopia”.
Dystopia involves society wide problems. The problems with incarceration are why it was posted here.
You claimed it wasn’t dystopic, but apparently you don’t want to talk about any of the society wide issues that this story highlights. The thing is, if you want to discuss whether this story exposes dystopian aspects of society, you have to talk about those issues. You can’t just talk about “mother bad; daughter good”, because that isn’t the issue being discussed.
I haven’t said this woman was good or bad, that was you. You assumed her incarceration wasn’t “wrongful”, by which I assume you mean it was lawful. The further assumption underneath that is that if it were lawful, it must be justified. You further assumed that because the state has branded her a criminal, that she deserved to be forced to give birth in prison and then give up her baby, or at least that it’s not worth considering, even though you know next to nothing about her, and even though it shouldn’t matter, because nobody should be forced to give birth in prison and to give up their baby.
And when I tried to point out these assumptions that you were making, you admit that you then assumed I was saying the mother was somehow innocent.
If you assume that the carceral system is right to judge and treat people the way it does, then of course your conclusions won’t challenge it.
The fact you are so willing to excuse crimes against humanity just because the most heinous carceral system in history told you the person they were being done to deserved it does not say good things about you, and I suspect that’s why you’re trying to change the subject.
I want you to pay attention to the community this is under. “Aboringdystopia”.
Dystopia involves society wide problems. The problems with incarceration are why it was posted here.
You claimed it wasn’t dystopic, but apparently you don’t want to talk about any of the society wide issues that this story highlights. The thing is, if you want to discuss whether this story exposes dystopian aspects of society, you have to talk about those issues. You can’t just talk about “mother bad; daughter good”, because that isn’t the issue being discussed.
I haven’t said this woman was good or bad, that was you. You assumed her incarceration wasn’t “wrongful”, by which I assume you mean it was lawful. The further assumption underneath that is that if it were lawful, it must be justified. You further assumed that because the state has branded her a criminal, that she deserved to be forced to give birth in prison and then give up her baby, or at least that it’s not worth considering, even though you know next to nothing about her, and even though it shouldn’t matter, because nobody should be forced to give birth in prison and to give up their baby.
And when I tried to point out these assumptions that you were making, you admit that you then assumed I was saying the mother was somehow innocent.
If you assume that the carceral system is right to judge and treat people the way it does, then of course your conclusions won’t challenge it.
The fact you are so willing to excuse crimes against humanity just because the most heinous carceral system in history told you the person they were being done to deserved it does not say good things about you, and I suspect that’s why you’re trying to change the subject.