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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-soup-for-you dept.

What is “lunch shaming?” It happens when a child can’t pay a school lunch bill.

In Alabama, a child short on funds was stamped on the arm with “I Need Lunch Money.” In some schools, children are forced to clean cafeteria tables in front of their peers to pay the debt. Other schools require cafeteria workers to take a child’s hot food and throw it in the trash if he doesn’t have the money to pay for it.

In what its supporters say is the first such legislation in the country, New Mexico has outlawed shaming children whose parents are behind on school lunch payments.

Source: The New York Times


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:32PM (33 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:32PM (#491267)

    It's not the kid's fault his parents are poor. Society should help the kid, not shun him because his parents, not him, were lazy.

  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:36PM (32 children)

    If by "society" you mean you'd be happy to pay for someone else's kid to eat, more power to you. If you mean they should take money out of my check for someone else's responsibility, then fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:47PM (15 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:47PM (#491307)

      Interesting concept of "society" you have. Glad I am not part of your society. (And I'm sure the feeling is mutual.)

      • (Score: 0, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:21PM (14 children)

        Yes, I'm aware of leftards views that society exists as this ephemeral overlord that must always be bowed to. It's not. It's simply a term for "a bunch of people that live in these borders". Do please bear in mind that when you try spouting what's good for "society", you're speaking for the half of the nation that hate your breathing guts and everything you stand for as well.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:41PM (13 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:41PM (#491383)

          You need to talk to a therapist. I have no idea who hurt you, but get help. Walking around with so much rage has horrible effects on your immune system, and trust me - you ain't earning enough to pay for the resulting medical bills on your own.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @12:28AM (12 children)

            No rage here, sweety. Plenty of scorn and mockery and maybe a bit of condescension but I don't get angry at fools or I'd have to be angry all day every day.

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            My rights don't end where your fear begins.
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @01:22AM (11 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @01:22AM (#491418)

              Dude, you are a riot.
              You have got to be the least self-aware person on this site.
              The lengths you go to to deny the obvious are epic.
              But the only person you are fooling is yourself.

              • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @01:35AM (10 children)

                I find it interesting that you think you know what others are feeling better than they do? Is this that fabled libtard empathy? That would make sooooo much sense given how wrong they always are on everything.

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                My rights don't end where your fear begins.
                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:08AM (3 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:08AM (#491440)

                  I find it interesting that you think you know what others are feeling better than they do?

                  I'm glad you asked.
                  To answer your question, no you do not find it interesting, you find it discomforting.
                  It annoys you that you lack the self-control to prevent others from reading you so clearly.
                  I'll give you a pointer though, maybe it will help. When you use words like "libtard" its like a spotlight on your id.

                  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @10:51AM (2 children)

                    SJWs always double down. -- Vox Popoli

                    Apparently a professional troll has better empathetic skills than our friends on the left fringe.

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                    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:59PM (1 child)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:59PM (#491738)

                      Double down on what, exactly?
                      All I see here is you repeating "no I'm not!" with different words.

                      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:28PM

                        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:28PM (#491807)

                        But he used a quote!! It was more elaborate than "no I'm not!", it was a virtue signal to the rest of his fellow Morloks to let them know they should simply dismiss anything further you might say and prepare their cauldrons for your delectable Eloi meats.

                • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 10 2017, @02:52AM (5 children)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 10 2017, @02:52AM (#491467) Journal

                  Hey, dipshit, the reason we can "read" you so well is because YOU AREN'T SPECIAL. We've seen this shit before.

                  If anything, now that der Drumpfenscheisser has convinced your kind it's safe to come out of whatever moist places under rocks you breed in, we're finding out you're probably the largest block of the population. You're the "normies," Cthulhu help us. Ignorant, self-centered, stunted manchildren like you are a dime a dozen and between however many million of you there are there is not one single original thought.

                  Your disease is as old as history. In every era, people like you arise, and in every era, you're always beaten back. Maybe we'll lose this time. Maybe you'll win. If you do, the survivors will very quickly come to envy the dead. Until then, we will fight you.

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                  I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:35AM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:35AM (#491512)

                    Hmm. So that's how rich justify beating the poor.

                  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @10:46AM (3 children)

                    It's nifty how your every argument is against a strawman of what you want me to be. Leftard empathy at its finest is apparently nothing but projection.

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                    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
                    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:34PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:34PM (#491670)

                      People used to have empathy for you, your posts used to get more reasonable responses. But over time you've shown that you are either trolling, or you can't take the heat of real discussion. So here we are, you rage out then try and tell everyone they're wrong for thinking you're upset.

                      Why do emotions scare you so badly?

                    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 10 2017, @06:22PM (1 child)

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 10 2017, @06:22PM (#491800) Journal

                      Yeah, what the AC below you said. Empathy just means being able to consider things from someone else's PoV. As such, normal human beings have a hard time empathizing with you because, and I can't stress this enough, *you aren't playing with a full deck.* You're very clearly a sociopath, and as empathy is the foundation of all prosocial behavior, it means there is naturally going to be some level of disconnect between you and fully-functioning people.

                      You don't even make an effort to be prosocial; you think this Randian brain-damage you've got is some kind of mark of distinction or superiority. Got news for ya, pal: it's not. You are pitiable.

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                      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:35AM

                        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:35AM (#492088)

                        Dude's not even a smart sociopath.

                        A smart one would recognize his own deficiencies. He might not consider them deficiencies but he'd at least recognize that everybody else sees the world differently and that civilization is where it is now due to the efforts of generations of people unlike himself.

                        Instead he's stuck in that high-school outcast mode of thinking everybody else are dummies and that they only pick on him because they are jealous of his smarts.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:54PM (2 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:54PM (#491315) Journal

      then fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

      That's our TMB! Genteel purveyor of reasoned discourse and rational debate! Defender of free speech and alternative viewpoints! And a homosexual rapist and practicer of animal husbandry. Oh, the Huge McManatee!

      • (Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:16PM (1 child)

        And a homosexual rapist and practicer of animal husbandry.

        At the same time or as individual acts? You weren't clear on that.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 4, Touché) by aristarchus on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:45PM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:45PM (#491369) Journal

          At the same time or as individual acts? You weren't clear on that.

          Neither were you, and it was your proposal. Stay away from my cayuse, you carrion vulture!

    • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:01PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:01PM (#491319)

      If by "society" you mean you'd be happy to pay for someone else's kid to eat, more power to you./quote.

      As the biggest misanthrope on this website you are the last person anyone should listen to on the topic of what constitutes a society. You live in an alternate universe randian utopia that has never once existed in the history of mankind.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:10PM (4 children)

        Did you have a point there or were you just flinging shit because you disagree?

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @01:25AM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @01:25AM (#491419)

          Did you have a point or were you just posting to assuage your wounded ego?
          Your posts are so unintentionally revealing they are like a window into your desiccated soul.

          • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @01:32AM (2 children)

            Isn't that special... You think you know how to troll. It's so cute!

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            My rights don't end where your fear begins.
            • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:02AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:02AM (#491504)

              Dude, professional standards, please! Real Trolls know when to leave them hanging. You are just verifying everything that everyone suspects of you. Epic Troll Fail, dude! Reboot! Start again.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:46PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:46PM (#492023)

              As the biggest misanthrope on this website you are the last person anyone should listen to on the topic of what constitutes a society. You live in an alternate universe randian utopia that has never once existed in the history of mankind.

              Umm, learn to cogitate? That is not even close to trolling, that is straight up "fuck you".

    • (Score: 2) by boxfetish on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:16PM (2 children)

      by boxfetish (4831) on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:16PM (#491355)

      There is one fatal flaw in your (and the most of the other Randian shitstain's) world view. We don't live in a meritocracy in any way, shape, or form. If we did, you might have a point. What's that old adage? Something about being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple?

      • (Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:37PM

        Yes, some people are born rich. You yourself I assume were born into a nation that is so amazingly prosperous that it affords you the leisure time to bitch about trivialities and How Things Should Be For Everyone. Get the fuck over it.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:51AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:51AM (#491493)

        There is one fatal flaw in your (and the most of the other Randian shitstain's) world view. We don't live in a meritocracy in any way, shape, or form.

        If you look into the origin of the modern definition of word "meritocracy" [wikipedia.org] you'll find that it was coined by someone parodying the concept.
        Turns out that a certain segment of the population that is congenitally unable to comprehend what makes for a healthy, robust society took it as an article of faith instead.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by dry on Monday April 10 2017, @02:54AM (3 children)

      by dry (223) on Monday April 10 2017, @02:54AM (#491469) Journal

      Much better that they take the money from your paycheck to kill kids on the other side of the world eh.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @10:43AM (2 children)

        Wrong again. I've no love for wars for "America's Interests" or for the good of someone else. If it's not directly to protect me and mine, we shouldn't be spending my money to do it.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:36PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:36PM (#491672)

          What else do you expect from a violently imposed monopoly??

          But seriously, you fail so hard. Try 3rd grade history, might help you understand what taxes are all about.

        • (Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:59AM

          by dry (223) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:59AM (#492073) Journal

          Perhaps best not to take any of "your" money. Your boss can lower your wage so you have slightly higher take home pay and you can spend more money dealing with a society full of people who are brain damaged due to childhood malnutrition.