General Discussion

as they are by people taking hats and balls from kids at sporting events.

Of course, the spate of outrageous takings is some kind of bizarre psychic displacement, a mass psychosis whereby we substitute the Meanie taking the hat, the ball for the far more serious deprivation of the world's children. And, of course, in the fairy tale version, there's always comeuppance for the Meanie, and the kid gets not just the hat or ball, but a bat, a visit with the sports star. It all works out in the end, see?

The bad faith is obvious to everyone, so of course it cannot be stated by anyone. Bad Karen! Good sports star! The kid gets the hat. The ball. The children, on the other hand, go without doctors and dentist visits, lose their IEPs to funding cuts, miss meals. Go without new shoes and coats, shiver in cold projects, get blown to pieces by drones and bombs.