Fox News Says We Should Teach Poor Kids a Lesson by Letting Them Starve
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Aren’t you just so tired of all those “irresponsible” poors just pooring around and getting their irresponsibility all over our school systems? How irresponsible of them—being so poor! And right in front of the normals! All those poor children irresponsibly demanding food to fuel their poor brains, when their irresponsible parents couldn’t even be bothered to “remember” to pay their reduced-fare lunch bill? Nice try, poors! Luckily, some fuckin’ guy on Fox & Friends has the perfect solution: Just throw those poor kids’ food in the garbage, right in front of all the other kids. That way, everyone knows which kids are poor and which kids are responsible, and everyone will finally realize that they fucked up when they chose to be poor. Poorness is abolished! Next stop: A FOOLPROOF GALT’S-GULCHIAN RESPONSIBILITOPIA.
No, but seriously, this guy really thinks that. Here’s Amanda Marcotte at Slate: