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We all have our own models of how the world works. This frames how we understand the meanings of content.
The phrase "baby left alone" in no way implies it's the mother's fault. It is correct, a baby was left alone, in as much the fault of the 'system'.
This meme feels more like something to instil anger and hatred than anything actually useful.
What meme are your talking about? This is just a screenshot of a social media post.
Words do have meaning. Of course you can just imaging your own meanings but then you will be misunderstood.
Left is the word that indicates that someone actively left this baby alone. They could have said baby found alone. Baby discovered. Heck, baby alone for days after mother's death. Baby left absolutely implies it is the doing, or fault, of the person who left the baby. The person who is responsible. Now who will society assume is responsible for a new baby, but the mother?
Even you. You said, hey we could just as easily blame this on society as on the mother! No mention of the absent father.
Are fathers (absent or otherwise) not a part of society?
It's seems like you're saying society and a child's parents are equally responsible for the child. A society is, of course, responsible to it's individuals, but are you actually saying you think it is a common belief that society and a child's parents are equally responsible for that child?
in fact it even says “after mother dies”
There are so many things to be genuinely furious about.
Since when are memes useful? Theyre mainly propaganda tools but when theyre useless they're called memes.
It's not even certain it's reasonably the fault of the 'system'. There's no details about how or why the mother died or why she happened to be alone with the baby for a few days. A mother taking care of a baby for a few days by herself is not a crazy circumstance without further context. At one point my wife had work and I had to take our toddler on a trip for a couple of days and no one could possibly have accused that situation of me being alone with our toddler due to some failure of the system, even if something had tragically killed me along the way.
There are so many stories about the system failing a baby or a mother, we don't need to extrapolate this specific incomplete story with such details until the actual details are available, which may or may not be consistent with the tragic failures of the system.