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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 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.

    --
    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.

        --
        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.

      --
      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.

        --
        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.

          --
          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.