Texas Girl Born in Jail Heading to Harvard After Graduating at the Top of Her Class - eviltoast
  • stoly@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This isn’t uplifting. It is sad that priorities had her born in jail.

    • TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl
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      10 months ago

      She wants you to be sad, is all about prejudice. She even uses it on herself as her introduction. IMHO I would had done my best to keep that fact hidden had it happened to me (still, how would I know what it feels). She exploits that fact. Good for her, but it’s not sad.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Why? It doesn’t say why her mother was in prison for, so it could be justified.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        You just argued that it’s good for children to be born in cages.

        • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          No - what I’ve argued is that it does not unjustify the mother’s imprisonment. I don’t think it really matters if a child was born in prison or not, as long as the sanitary and medical conditions were proper (that is - in the prison’s infirmary and not into the cell’s toilet). Growing up in prison is a different matter, which no child should be subjected to, but here it says her father took her and raised her outside.