Social media is abuzz with a survey showing 12th-grade boys are twice as likely to identify as conservative. The reality is a little more complicated, writes Arwa Mahdawi
I’ve been saying this for a while. Young white boys hear how horrible white men are, and because they’re kids, they don’t always understand the parts that are left unsaid. They just hear that the world is ending and it’s because of people like them. Then if they have trouble finding a girlfriend they get told they are incels and losers.
And suddenly you’ve got a whole demographic of young angry people ripe for exploitation. Telling them they’re stupid and evil for listening to the right wing nut jobs doesn’t help, they’ve been told how stupid and evil they are since they were children, they’re going to listen to the person who says “we accept you as you are”.
It’s been going on for a couple of decades at least, and look where we are now.
Totally accurate. And there is a ton of hypocrisy with this situation as well. As you stated, older white men are demonized by every group out there. But you can’t defend yourself if you are one of those older white men or immediately simpletons will claim you are RaCiSt. And these young white kids see this and think their dad or uncle or cousin aren’t so bad… why is the world constantly shitting all over them?
The most hilarious (and infuriating) part of all this is that the same people (usually on the Left) who go apeshit when people generalize a certain group have zero problems generalizing all white guys together. How does that make sense? As you stated, just because some white dude can’t get a GF doesn’t make him an incel. Just because some white dude dresses a certain way or listens to a certain type of music doesn’t mean he’s some hardcore MAGAt. Yet those generalizations are perfectly fine for society to make but god forbid you state that X group loves Y food, or Z group is not good at something.
And this hypocrisy theme continues elsewhere as well. Again, the Left loves to pretend not to want people to generalize, but they will typically generalize that just because someone is white, they immediately have some kind of special privileged, and yet if you are black, for instance, you are oppressed. I’m sorry, but I kind of doubt the kids of billionaire Beyonce or Kanye West are being oppressed by The Man. On the flip side, some dirt poor white kid from Appalachia has absolutely no advantages in this world compared to his dirt poor black neighbor. They go to the same shitty school, their parents work in the same shitty coal mine making the same shitty paycheck, they live in similar shitty mobile homes. Yet only one of those kids could potentially get a free-ride to go to college by leveraging his race and getting scholarships.
Kids aren’t stupid. They might not be very worldly or have experience doing things, but they see a lot of this bullshit and become easy prey for groups that are actively recruiting them and tell them that things aren’t right in the world.
I’ve been saying this for a while. Young white boys hear how horrible white men are, and because they’re kids, they don’t always understand the parts that are left unsaid. They just hear that the world is ending and it’s because of people like them. Then if they have trouble finding a girlfriend they get told they are incels and losers.
And suddenly you’ve got a whole demographic of young angry people ripe for exploitation. Telling them they’re stupid and evil for listening to the right wing nut jobs doesn’t help, they’ve been told how stupid and evil they are since they were children, they’re going to listen to the person who says “we accept you as you are”.
It’s been going on for a couple of decades at least, and look where we are now.
Totally accurate. And there is a ton of hypocrisy with this situation as well. As you stated, older white men are demonized by every group out there. But you can’t defend yourself if you are one of those older white men or immediately simpletons will claim you are RaCiSt. And these young white kids see this and think their dad or uncle or cousin aren’t so bad… why is the world constantly shitting all over them?
The most hilarious (and infuriating) part of all this is that the same people (usually on the Left) who go apeshit when people generalize a certain group have zero problems generalizing all white guys together. How does that make sense? As you stated, just because some white dude can’t get a GF doesn’t make him an incel. Just because some white dude dresses a certain way or listens to a certain type of music doesn’t mean he’s some hardcore MAGAt. Yet those generalizations are perfectly fine for society to make but god forbid you state that X group loves Y food, or Z group is not good at something.
And this hypocrisy theme continues elsewhere as well. Again, the Left loves to pretend not to want people to generalize, but they will typically generalize that just because someone is white, they immediately have some kind of special privileged, and yet if you are black, for instance, you are oppressed. I’m sorry, but I kind of doubt the kids of billionaire Beyonce or Kanye West are being oppressed by The Man. On the flip side, some dirt poor white kid from Appalachia has absolutely no advantages in this world compared to his dirt poor black neighbor. They go to the same shitty school, their parents work in the same shitty coal mine making the same shitty paycheck, they live in similar shitty mobile homes. Yet only one of those kids could potentially get a free-ride to go to college by leveraging his race and getting scholarships.
Kids aren’t stupid. They might not be very worldly or have experience doing things, but they see a lot of this bullshit and become easy prey for groups that are actively recruiting them and tell them that things aren’t right in the world.