A whole lot to think about, who IS grooming kids?
Apr 17, 2022 5:00:45 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 17, 2022 5:00:45 GMT
This is a longer piece from the Atlantic.I am posting a few paragraphs from the begining. And then part near the end. I am not such a great editor... I found the whole piece very interesting and enlightening.
The Danger More Republicans Should Be Talking About
White-supremacist ideology is harmful to all, especially the naive and defenseless minds of youth.
By Ibram X. Kendi
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The day after Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race last November, a Wall Street Journal headline declared: “Youngkin Makes the GOP the Parents’ Party.” Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio exulted in this new party line on Twitter: “The Republican Party is the party of parents.”
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Experts know—and white supremacists know—which white kids are most vulnerable to grooming: kids seeking a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging; loners and excluded kids; and depressed kids. And depression among “white teens seems to be rising faster than among other groups,” Derek Thompson recently reported in The Atlantic.
13-year-old boy became depressed and isolated after being accused of sexual harassment, his mother wrote in Washingtonian magazine. Sam, as she referred to him in the story, transferred to a new school mid-year, but felt all alone. “I counseled patience, naively unprepared for what came next,” his mother wrote.
Sam soon found online communities on Reddit and 4chan filled with white supremacists who indoctrinated him with ideas like all girls lie, “feminazis” are killing families, and Islam is a fundamentally violent religion. These white supremacists told this Jewish boy that Jews run the financial world. He started Googling these ideas and found what he thought was proof. “Each set of results acted like fertilizer sprinkled on weeds,” his mother explained.
It is important to remember that people actively produce the toxic fertilizer that’s feeding the weeds of bigotry in young (and old) minds, preventing the flowering of truth, of communion across human difference. The Patriot Front is “responsible for the vast majority of white supremacist propaganda distributed in the United States,” according to the ADL. Based in Texas, the Patriot Front split from Vanguard America after that group participated in the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017.
A recent leak to the media collective Unicorn Riot revealed that the Patriot Front “preys on teenagers, recruiting members through the internet who are still legally minors, indoctrinating them with white supremacist ideology and even encouraging them to lie to their parents so the group can transport them across state lines for fascist events,” the group wrote.
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/white-supremacy-grooming-in-republican-party/629585/
The Danger More Republicans Should Be Talking About
White-supremacist ideology is harmful to all, especially the naive and defenseless minds of youth.
By Ibram X. Kendi
***
The day after Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race last November, a Wall Street Journal headline declared: “Youngkin Makes the GOP the Parents’ Party.” Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio exulted in this new party line on Twitter: “The Republican Party is the party of parents.”
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Experts know—and white supremacists know—which white kids are most vulnerable to grooming: kids seeking a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging; loners and excluded kids; and depressed kids. And depression among “white teens seems to be rising faster than among other groups,” Derek Thompson recently reported in The Atlantic.
13-year-old boy became depressed and isolated after being accused of sexual harassment, his mother wrote in Washingtonian magazine. Sam, as she referred to him in the story, transferred to a new school mid-year, but felt all alone. “I counseled patience, naively unprepared for what came next,” his mother wrote.
Sam soon found online communities on Reddit and 4chan filled with white supremacists who indoctrinated him with ideas like all girls lie, “feminazis” are killing families, and Islam is a fundamentally violent religion. These white supremacists told this Jewish boy that Jews run the financial world. He started Googling these ideas and found what he thought was proof. “Each set of results acted like fertilizer sprinkled on weeds,” his mother explained.
It is important to remember that people actively produce the toxic fertilizer that’s feeding the weeds of bigotry in young (and old) minds, preventing the flowering of truth, of communion across human difference. The Patriot Front is “responsible for the vast majority of white supremacist propaganda distributed in the United States,” according to the ADL. Based in Texas, the Patriot Front split from Vanguard America after that group participated in the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017.
A recent leak to the media collective Unicorn Riot revealed that the Patriot Front “preys on teenagers, recruiting members through the internet who are still legally minors, indoctrinating them with white supremacist ideology and even encouraging them to lie to their parents so the group can transport them across state lines for fascist events,” the group wrote.
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/white-supremacy-grooming-in-republican-party/629585/
