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    The children like to work actually, and they get benefits like affording housing and food. If it weren’t for child labor they’d just laze about all day starving in the streets for a lack of will to sustain themselves.

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        It’s the tiny hands, it gives them a sense of pride in their work that they have an edge on adults.

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      What the actual… for a moment I thought you were trying - and failing - to be sarcastic - but this reads too much like a real opinion.

      edit: ok i see now that other comments are attempting a similar style of sarcasm, but this here just doesn’t work for me. I guess it’s different if you’re being taught precisely this type of nonsense…

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        Holy shit it’s wooshing still, i really tried. It’s parroting the pragerU statements on chattle slavery but transposing to child labor. Or was it TPUSA? idk.

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          Dropping a /s would be nice. Without an obvious tone it hit a little too close. But then you really nailed that roleplay, so…

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          pragerU

          Considering some schools actually use their materials ig you have a point. Maybe add a little context next time, if - like me - you don’t like to use the /s