For the life of me I can't figure out why young people are right leaning so much. Gen x we hated the wealthy and authority and especially the religious.
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They aren't. High school aged kids are being twatty edge lords as always but statistically the younger generations lean left.
I don't know man. There's a lot of 7-12 grade kids that are far right. Or part of that toxic manosphere
Yeah they also can't vote yet and by voting age the statistics are and have been for like a hundred or so years shifted left towards 60 and back right after that.
But there's a lot of sympathy in college campus for things like turning point. Pre 2014 those people would have been ran off campus and sometimes were. Now you don't see that
Yep. Gen X here. Things like the Young Republicans were treated like lepers pretty much.
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Because to the naïve, far-right nonsense feels edgy.
And I don't get that. To me being against wealth, nuclear family, religion is the non conformist route
I suspect there has to be a lot of indoctrination involved. Note how these edgelords are also deeply religious, or at least claim to be (not getting into how they do or don't actually follow the tenets of their religion).
Musk (edgelord extraordinaire) said publically in a recent post that he just couldn't bring himself to attack cops in a video game. I guess violent video games are a problem again. It's all the same tired conservative nonsense but it's been sold to a generation that doesn't have the backstory.
And it's so weird. When I was a teenager it was the democrats who led the fight against violent video games like mortal Kombat and GTA. Hated them for that
I mostly blame online creeps like Andrew Tate and Clavicular deliberately targeting vulnerable tween and teen boys who then carry the toxic ideology with them into adulthood.
Millennials in general and Gen Z women are mostly left wing, though, especially ones who aren't white.
I feel like everyone "acted" right leaning when we were teenagers.
We used "gay" as a derogatory. I recall friends and I using talking points that in hindsight was very incelly. Mocking idealistic lefties etc.
But I don't think I truly felt that way, and I know my friends I've kept in touch with post high school don't/didn't.
I think a lot of it is performative, to fit in. And now I'm an openly raging lefty
I hope it's the same case with kids these days
There are 2 types:
- my parents are dumb as shit and so am i
- "i made fun of piss kinks and made piss jokes so many times that i now have a piss kink" adjacent
It's hard to see outside your bubble
Privledged kids with self employed parents that will pass down the business to the kid, so they immediately don’t want progressive tax
It's because of 4chan
we hated
According to https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/age-generational-cohorts-and-party-identification/ every single decade birth year associates with Gen X associates with R+x to some extend (in particular with men).
I think your use of the past tense is appropriate.
Technically I'm a xenial. To young for gen x to old for millennial. Born 78
Your perspective seems to fit with the data then. Millenials seem to be the turning point.
I still do
There are certainly plenty who agree with you, just unfortunately not the majority.
I had a friend who wasn't allowed to wear his Beavis and Butthead shirt because it said butt on it. So his mom took yellow paint and painted over the "butt" making it Beavis and Head which was hilarious and A-Okay with school staff.
On 9/11/02 I woke up late and forgot about 9/11.
No one would believe my "bad cop, no doughnut" shirt was a coincidence or that anyone would forget 9/11.
My attempts to ask what making fun of bad cops had to do with 9/11 in the first place didn't help, but I got off of school, which was pretty cool...
On 9/11/02 I woke up late and forgot about 9/11.
How could you?! Alan Jackson would be very disappointed.
"bad cop, no doughnut" shirt
I forgot about those!
Yeah, I got called out immediately after making the time to take the "scenic route" that morning as well.
But anyways, it is a good example of how context needs to be part of it.
I didn't have any ill intent, but I'd have spent all day explaining that and derailing every class I walked into.
Like, people had been joining up on their 17th birthday and waiting to graduate to deploy for a year by then, someone probably would have tried to fight me.
People don't understand how crazy shit really was right after 9/11.
Really seems like the school district was doing those boys a favor. Can't think of something more lame for middle schoolers to wear than matching Let's Go Brandon sweatshirts. They saved those boys from their mom's political boomer humor.
Imagine the yearbook comments.
When I was in middle school we couldn't wear Levi's 501 'Button Your Fly' shirts because it drew attention to the crotch.
One day, after Pee Wee's Big Arrest, I wore a shirt that said "Hey Pee Wee, Button Your Fly" and I made it all the way to 4th period before I had to turn it inside out. My 4th period teacher asked me who my first 3 teachers were for the day, because she couldn't believe I'd made it that far in the day... and when their names all started with "Mr." she just rolled her eyes and said "Figures."
Students are citizens with rights. But rules about profanity are reasonable measures for good discipline.
If a student wore a You Can't Lick Our Dick button to class, what teacher do?
Minors don't have the same rights adults do, especially when it comes to schools.
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Amazing mom, that one.
/s
I'm sure that mom is a real Karen.
These people are morons but trying to ban a sweatshirt is just as dumb.
If they don't have any problems banning books then they should STFU about banned shirts
Because I have problems with book bans I also have problems with sweatshirt bans. A nation with fewer first amendment rights isn't one that favors those out of power. We're not one election away from instituting a "good" authoritarianism.
So being critical of the case, let's ask what exactly does the statement "Let's Go Brandon" mean to you? Who is Brandon to you? Personal friend?, are you an advocate for them? what does it mean to support them, i.e. "Let's Go"? If these words and phrases can't be giving legitimate answers, then it's clearly understood what it is meant within the conservative cultural. Fucking Duh!
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