"As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability."

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The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of childhood into a zone of disciplinary exclusion and cruelty, especially for those young people further marginalized by race and class who now inhabit a social landscape in which they are increasingly disparaged as flawed consumers or pathologized others.

— Henry Giroux