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   Ericka Simone (erickasimone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 15:31:51 JST Ericka Simone

   To the ones with children.

   Race and racism. Financial responsibility and capitalism (and taxes. And owning your own business). Reproductive responsibility. Gender expression. Societal communication. How to be genuinely kind. Humanity.

   I pray you teach your child about all the facts of life. I pray that you are not scared to have the difficult conversations with them. I beg of you. Teach your children the basic life skills they need. No one else will.

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     andrei! (andreimoment@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 15:57:42 JST andrei!

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     @ErickaSimone I am concerned about the parents who believe that not speaking about these things is the *virtuous* thing to do, and see it as a part of “protecting the children”.

     People who live in a polished world of normalized cruelty, extreme racism, oppression/erasure of nonbinary sexuality - with a permanent porcelain smile.

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     Ericka Simone (erickasimone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 15:57:51 JST Ericka Simone

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     • andrei!

     @andreimoment it’s wild how delusional some people are. The “protect their child’s innocence” to “incompetent humans who can’t function” pipeline is direct.