On the other hand, a child tourist like him picking up berries on the plantation and extrapolating that experience to plantation slave migrant labor wouldn’t be surprising.
Now that I’m thinking of it - it’s possible he and his classmate picked berries for fun on a school excursion to the countryside. Maybe even more than once. The best lies often have some truth in them.
![[Not the Onion] Congressman Rich Scumbag says of potential cuts to free school lunches for children: "Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field before we had child labor laws.](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/438e0459-fa8a-4f47-b64a-460086703a91.png){kind=link}
On the other hand, a child tourist like him picking up berries on the plantation and extrapolating that experience to plantation
slavemigrant labor wouldn’t be surprising.100% he got dragged to a pick-your-own-berries farm as a kid and is now claiming that makes him understand agricultural child labor
Now that I’m thinking of it - it’s possible he and his classmate picked berries for fun on a school excursion to the countryside. Maybe even more than once. The best lies often have some truth in them.
Was definitely gram-gram telling him to pick berries so she could make a pie and he threw a fit over it.
“But gram-gram - it’s soooo hot outside.”
“Put this hat on.”
“But graaam-graaam!”