[TriinT]

The kids on the article's photo look mostly Mexican. Moreover, there's no such thing as an "aryan race". This program looks a bit like Hitler's youth in some ways, but let's be pragmatic: the program gives teenagers in a rather poor area something to do with their free time, and something to look for. I think it's better to have them practising marijuana field raids (though ludicruous that is) than joining a local gang and end up in prison years later to be nothing more than mere parasites of the system.

[lesbianmonad]

Blaming those ground under the heel of the US Justice system for being forcibly made into "parasites" is almost as repugnant as encouraging our youth to side with the oppressors instead of the oppressed

[TriinT]

Prisoners live off the state. They are, by definition, parasites. Everything else is semantics.

[lesbianmonad]

The writing off mass injustice and suffering as 'semantics' notwithstanding, you might enjoy learning that 'parasite' described those in Greek and Roman society who earned their daily meals by entertaining and flattering at the dinner tables of the rich

Hopefully you appreciate the irony in the word now describing those forced to live in incarceration, to satisfy a societal elite with a fetish for moralizing and punishment

[TriinT]

Are your views U.S.-centric?