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One thing that I hope eventually happens as conservatives become more delirious is that the children of these parents are apprehended by CAS and taken away. As someone who has a big interest in extremists and spends a lot of time in their spheres, I can say without a doubt that most of them are very dangerous for their children. They are unvaccinated, uneducated (they literally prop them up in front of conspiracy theory YouTube all day under the guise of homeschool), malnourished, unregistered in any legal sense much of the time, and don't socialize with others, as well as being physically disciplined. The guy who killed his kids in Mexico for Qanon reasons illustrates how dangerous these people are to children, as well as the guy who killed his kid for almost being vaccinated (this is much less well known and heartbreaking: https://longreads.com/2023/04/06/a-vaccine-dispute-turns-deadly/)
Yeah it's frightening that there's literally a cult developing of home schooled zealots brought up on the wackiest conspiracies on YouTube. I was friends with a guy that was brought up by intese Jehovah's witnesses and even though he stopped participating and believing it took a long time for him to understand the stuff they'd taught him was crazy - like he was shocked that I believed in evolution because as far as he knew it was long since disproven.
The real problem was critical reasoning skills and learning skills, he had no idea how to verify information or seek out out from reasonable sources. I think we're going to get a lot of people in the same boat, except a lot more violent and terrified of the world.
Sorry, source on that guy in Mexico? Haven't heard about it
It happened in 2021.
NPR Source
This is a good in depth piece about it; https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/matthew-taylor-coleman-qanon-children-killing-1239151/
An apparent non paywall link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmjzq/matthew-taylor-coleman-santa-barbara-qanon