Mirror World political battles reduce to whether children are autonomous or parental extensions

Evidence

So many of the battles waged in the Mirror World—the “anti-woke” laws, the “don’t say gay” bills, the blanket bans on gender-affirming medical care, the school board wars over vaccines and masks—come down to the same question: What are children for? Are they their own people, and our job, as parents, is to support and protect them as they find their paths? Or are they our appendages, our extensions, our spin-offs, our doubles, to shape and mold and ultimately benefit from? — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 647

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Klein compresses a sprawl of cultural-war fronts into one structural question about childhood — this is the analytic payoff of applying the doubling device beyond the personal doppelganger. The move is elegant and genuinely reframes how to read these fights.