You got me for a second there.

I thought you would make a "the onion" joke of florida plan's to send cancer patient to work the fields as a "treatment" for cancer.

I'm surprised (and kinda of relieved?) that your comment is actually about a new scientific discovery.

Every one of these is always "Parent's Rights Act" and the text is like "murdering your gay/trans 10-year-old is now totally legal".

"You should be able to give your child a job at a slave wage in awful conditions. That's a parental decision.

"What if I want to give my child the opportunity to explore their gender identity? Thats a parental decision too."

"Off to the gulag with you all."

It would also have scrapped required 30-minute meal breaks

It's a parent's right to make sure their child works an 8 hour shift with no breaks! Breaks are socialism!

Funny how you never hear them say “parental responsibilities.”

~~states~~parents rights!

Why is it always about slavery?

I mean, that's one way to look at it.

The more accurate way to look at is that the American right hates migrants and people of color so much that they would force their children into hard labor just to make sure nobody who sounds or looks different receives any kind of benefit.

This country has, throughout its entire history, relied heavily on immigrants to make up the shortfalls in its labor force. A full stoppage of immigration is going to collapse the United States economy. Sooner than later.

Yes, if we remove our migrant population then we literally lose the majority of our food production workers. I think it'll also impact our construction work force, much of our factory workforce, our waitstaff, and various other jobs US citizens turn their noses up at - because those jobs literally would not sustain them and would destroy their bodies over time. Most of these jobs are sustained entirely by the desperation of immigrants trying to escape their prior circumstances.

Edit- added more detail in bold to make it clearer the the issue lies in how these jobs are conducted rather than being with US citizens.

Farms have historically used their children as free labor back when they were mostly family owned. That's why most schools here have a three month summer break. Now they want the factory farms to have that same perk, just with other people's children.

Whoa whoa whoa, teenager is already a bit old and commands more hourly

They are framing it like plucky shirtless college boys might wanna go pick cucumbers for a weekend to make a few bucks for rootbeer floats down at the soda-fountain.

One of the things that infuriates me about our species broadly is how terrible people are at visualizing actual, real systems and their scope and scale.

If you don't know anything about the factory-farming our society requires to survive, you should probably take a short tour of the massive machine we've built and depend on so you understand the scale of the problem and why even the immigrants we have/had now aren't even enough to keep the system running. This is why aging populations are a huge problem, this is a foundational cornerstone of our whole civilization, much like medicine and vaccines, and it's being waved off like something we can just swap out demographics for funsies and to give bro's trying to afford their new baseball mitts and textbooks, all good, right??

"I was beaten as a child and I ended up fine" says man who beats children.

I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.

Also, this is complete and utter bullshit. I'm older than Ron boy, and child labor laws predate me. The folks picking crops in the fields in the 80's and 90's were the same immigrants that are (or were, I guess) doing it today. And anyone who attended Yale almost certainly wasn't out picking crops as a kid. Like most members of the GOP, he has zero attachment to reality.

Like from the toilet?

Large population of boomers with a lifetime of lead poisoning, and they vote.

See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.

When I was a kid, my mom was outraged that somebody made the statement, "children aren't their parent's property."
So, yeah

The front fell off

Good thing the north left a loophole in the constitution after the civil war just for a situation like this.