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Someone elsenet made a comment about the breakdown of the family unit, which they naturally blamed for our current societal ills, because "we used to take care of each other". My response relates solely to how white supremacy impacted one aspect of our current societal and economic situation so don't come at me for not writing an entire tome about it in a multitude of tiny text boxes (*):
When white people turned Black/brown people into chattel, one of the things that happened was Black/brown people raising the white children because white parents of means didn't dirty their hands by raising their own children. This also meant Black/brown people had no time to raise their own families because they were too busy raising the white ones.
The Western economic model is created on the back of breaking down the family by forcing overlong workdays/weeks, fostering an economy the requires both parents be out of the home to work, and eroding all aspects of community as well.
This idea of the Victorian/"50s family model as some kind of pinnacle is complete BS.
* This was originally several short comments left somewhere elsenet that I bound together here.