School's Kitchen Manager Fired for Giving Hungry Children Free Lunch

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24. Dehumanization.

That's the core purpose of these policies. Same with the standardized tests used to defund schools, same with the assaults on food stamps and on housing assistance. There is a constant and unending assault on the poor in our society. It's merciless and designed to split people apart. The drug wars, police brutality, and our prison systems are some of the more racialized and militarized aspects of the state's attack. It's all designed to beat the poor down at every step of their lives, never stopping for a moment.

Policies like these are effective at hurting poorer communities. The policies force the employees to choose between themselves and the children. They are stripped of their dignity and made to deny hungry children food every day in order to work. That is a heart-wrenchingly wrong thing that our society says is okay. And it all serves to change us all into little bits of labor to be bought and sold and used. Everyday brutality like this is woven in and out of our entire system. Keeps the people oppressed, tired, stressed, angry, and divided.