chapotraphouse

14083 readers

740 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

(CW child abuse) How the fuck does this still exist — Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, an institution that literally tortures children and is still doing it in 2023 (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Some people are still kept there even decades after becoming adults.

Special fuck-you to state rep Jeffrey Sanchez

Massachusetts state Representative Jeffrey Sanchez, whose nephew, Brandon, has been detained at the JRC since 1992, is a major proponent of the JRC and their practices. Sanchez has repeatedly blocked the passage of legislation that would threaten the center.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is unfortunately perfectly in line with a big chunk of the US. There's a whole branch of theology in the James Dobson vein that dominates the US, which holds that disobedience is a sin and that the only "loving" response is physical punishment until the disobedience stops in order to save their soul