Political Memes

They just want to criminalize homelessness and throw them in jail. That's it. That's all this is.

I think largely it stems from the targeted infantilization of disabled people throughout most of Western history. Adults who are stripped of rights and treated like children for the convenience of a society that doesn't feel like helping them (see: institutions) tend to start seeing parental roles in their life as sinister, because they tend to make decisions on their behalf and remove any personal agency they may otherwise be afforded.

Combine this with fundraising efforts that once again, treat disabled people as pitiable, helpless, and childlike, all to raise money that never actually goes towards helping them (see: telethon), and you have a system ripe to force people who want an actual life to push away offered help and become radically independent.

That, and unfortunately, an attitude like yours is relatively uncommon. Being patronized and dehumanized by their parents seems to be a much more familiar experience to most than being loved by them.

It was a critique of the idea that the Great Men were doing the childlike savage an immense service by taking over their lands and setting up the complicated systems of bureaucracy and industry that they were too infantile to grasp. And, of course, when any child speaks out of turn or acts out, they must be punished.