7. If you think about it for a moment, you'll realize that without exception all children are criminals.
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8. Public mischief and disturbing the peace are crimes. Have you known a non-mischievous child? One that doesn't throw tantrums?
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@corkingiron And their thug culture! Why just last week gangs of them pounded on my door and demanded free stuff!1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes -
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10. I had same experience last Friday: masked children, threatening "tricks" extorted "treats" from law-abiding citizens.
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@fortyfs As I said, proper parental response would be to tell a child who does this to stop and teach them about boundaries.
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@fortyfs But what I'm wary of is way childhood acts get spoken of in the language of adult criminality. That's dangerous.
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@HeerJeet esp for poor kids & kids of colour, but also visible in the denial or stripping away of bodily & expression rights wrt teenagers.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@fortyfs Exactly. Privileged kids like LD aren't going to go to jail for this, but its easy to imagine PoC kids being jailed.
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