CNN —In some corners of society, there appears to be a shift in the way people talk about kids.
Every so often, a provocative social media post sets off predictably polarizing discourse about the presence of children in daily life.
The implication (joking or otherwise) is that children are a nuisance and adults shouldn’t have to endure them if they don’t want to.
The people behind them aren’t part of some organized movement nor are they actually lobbying for the exclusion of children from public spaces.
Rather, Berg understands online disdain for kids partly as a performative response to rhetoric from political and religious conservatives.
Persons:
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Organizations:
CNN, Friendly, New York Times Magazine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “, tote
Locations:
Ohio, Nebraska, Berg