Dana Fried on Nostr: it's funny because I initially read it as parody; a scathing indictment of the ...

it's funny because I initially read it as parody; a scathing indictment of the system.

The overbearing teacher abuses the terrified territories, while the Black child is forced to work instead of being educated; the foreign child is left outside in the cold; the Native child is being forced to assimilate without being given any resources; and the mostly white states sit happily ignoring all of this abuse.

And conservatives of the time saw this and were like, "that's good, actually".