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Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social |
I teach in schools and I have never seen young men as radicalised by the far right as they are now. I have never been so often warned by teachers about students before taking their classes. There is a level of rage there that is startling.
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The Red Count
@theredcount.bsky.social
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It has gone unnoticed for so long because people below a certain age (the cutoff is somewhere in the mid 20s), inhabit completely different media spaces than other generations. YouTube and twitch completely changed the game.
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p.a.lapid 🇵🇭🇺🇸👾🖖🏽
@palapid.bsky.social
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daymn! for us men who identify more with left/liberal causes (very wide definitions of both), what’s our responsibility to younger boys and men about this—as fathers, uncles, cousins, brothers, peers, teachers, mentors, etc? (also as a 🇺🇸 fan of colo(u)r, love the podcast ⚽️)
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Bohnenkartoffel
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Similar phenomenon in Germany, large swing to the far-right for the youngest voters in the latest EU election. And anecdotally I really believe the gateway-drug has been misogyny
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Mir
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Teacher here too. I worked with teenagers from all over the world last summer and regardless of which point of the globe they were from a majority of the young men were staunchly right wing. Some openly called themselves fascists and did the Nazi salute. Others would quote Andrew Tate.
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Dr Emil Seidel, MD
@zbk.bsky.social
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A few of my seniors were joking about moving to Europe for the free college. One then complained about how Sweden was "infested with immigrants". This kid is the child of two refugees (but still, JFC). Fortunately, his peers shut him down before I needed to say anything.
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MJ
@texson6886.bsky.social
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I teach in a conservative/affluent district near Chicago. The boys are not radicalized as much because it's a diverse school and when they do say racists or ignorant things there's pushback. They treat MAGA as something the poor whites do not them.
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Nicole Holliday
@mixedlinguist.bsky.social
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This is also segregation and social isolation. If you never have to have an actual conversation with someone different than you at school or in the community, and then at home it's all Youtube or Twitch, there's no opportunity or incentive to rethink the worldview that targets you online.
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Botticellibelle
@botticellibelle.bsky.social
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This is what unfettered capitalism does - it leads to fascism. Governments around the world are going full fash right now, and it's terrifying.
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Charlie
@charliechazbot.bsky.social
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I don't have kids or work with kids, so I have no idea, but what do you do in that situation? Do you talk to them after class? Shut them down in front of everyone? Contact their parents? Really what could be done at that point that has any effect?
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Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board
@sidewalkslam.bsky.social
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Young boys have been like this for a long time, but they used to grow out of it. Unfortunately, google has figured out a way to make money pushing nazi crap like pragerU onto kids
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Meredith Berg
@mereberg.bsky.social
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We are losing the young men to online scammers. Hate sells. 😮💨
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Mike Wilson
@mkwilson27.bsky.social
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It’s mostly manufactured rage driven by right-wing propaganda.
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Frying Pan
@bluemirrah.bsky.social
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I am confused by this sentence, "I have never been so often warned by teachers about students before taking their classes." Were students teaching classes? Or were you warned by teachers about students in the teachers classes? Either seems odd.
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Jamie McKelvie
@mckelvie.bsky.social
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I don't think most people understand how bad it is on YouTube etc.
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Môr Leidr
@bartiddu.bsky.social
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Why is this so gendered? It is reflected in most far right protests too, where men FAR outnumber women. Isn’t it time we stopped looking just at race/poverty/religion as drivers of far-right terrorism in the Western world, and address the uncomfortable fact that maleness drives it too? Then ask why?
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MikeyT00
@devilmikey.bsky.social
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Joe Rogan devolving into a far right conspiracy nut, Andrew Tate and his thousands of imitators, the whole "grindset" shit, Incel culture and youtube funneling anyone consuming political content straight to far right channels eventually. There is an entire industry for radicalizing young boys.
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Ton Chrysoprase
@tonchrysoprase.bsky.social
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Yeah, my 14 yo, who luckily seems to have his head screwed on right, is pretty much despairing with the amount of brainwashing that has been going on. Andrew Tate and his ilk did a real number on a generation. I trust they'll snap back eventually, but until then I don't envy you.
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Gluten-free Seitan
@davidjorgonson.bsky.social
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Young right wingers are more extreme than older right wingers
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Dean Barker
@deanbarker.bsky.social
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18 yr olds have been living in a wholly abnormal civic environment for 10 of their years (counting back from FPOTUS' campaign), longer than that with social media's algorithmic rabbit holes (plus, partly, the isolation of the pandemic). Not sure conventional wisdom has caught up with this.
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Evangeline Lominster
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I did a volunteer session in a primary school assisting the local football teams community outreach branch discuss gender, etc, and what I heard from these kids scared me
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CNY Big D
@pat0615.bsky.social
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Covid and 8 years of this shit. If their parents are maga, imagine the toxic rage they hear. I'm old so I don't understand how the dating scene or socializing is for them.
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Intellectual Explorer
@driftingthrough.bsky.social
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Labor crisis plus seductive promises equals right wing resurgence. It's the economy.
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BeefReeferLives
@beefreeferlives.bsky.social
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Xitter does it too.
An interesting related article:
www.workingclassicists.com/post/the-ant...
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Nyla Smokeyface
@nylasmokeyface.bsky.social
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It's genuinely upsetting, especially because they see any push back as "the liberal agenda", so it's hard to fight back against it.
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Alfred N Montestruc
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This, YouTube guy has over very many videos, said that he is predicting a strong, right word, deflection, and younger Americans, and they strong, right deflection in the USA
youtu.be/U4dxsmlPguY?...
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Myles to Go Before I Sleep Lobdell
@myleslobdell.bsky.social
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Hopefully, some of those young men will eventually want to have sex with the opposite sex. That will have a chilling effect on some of that fascism.
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Dr M
@ivalaine.bsky.social
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But is it just a manifestation of increased entitlement in the younger generation? Are the girls showing it in a different way?
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maraleia
@maraleia.bsky.social
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They watch too much fucking right-wing YouTube channels and TikTok accounts.
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Egalitarian
@egality.bsky.social
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If we make left wing activism impossible (and it has been made impossible) far-right radicalism becomes inevitable, and we will descend into fascism because of this.
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