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The kids are not alright (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 16 hours ago by commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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I had the opportunity to speak and interact with younger University age people over the past few days (18-24 range) and I can only say that I am shocked by how it's almost universal that they're either irony poisoned fascists, genuine racists, or reactionaries of another sort. Pretty much politically as right wing as it gets.

I worry that the younger people in Gen Z may be potentially the most susceptible to fascist belief in a very long time, due to the combination of terribly bleak prospects and disillusionment, ease of access and exposure to all manner of online extremist pipelines (video game culture, red-pilling), and the overall deterioration of social skills from growing up hooked up to tech.

If we have any comrades around this age group, or with a lot of experience with them, do you find it to be similar where you are? Or am I just unfortunate to have a particularly sour batch where I happen to be?

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[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 15 hours ago

I blame covid, I saw it in real time lol.

High school pre-covid you'd be ostracized for being a cringe right winger, even though I was a transfer student to a petit-bourgeois-filled area, it was still the norm to not be a POS. Not saying they weren't reactionary, plenty of anti-communism and "muh trans people in sports" going around, but kids would still get punished by the community for being racist or misogynistic.

Same was the case for college, except the pandemic hit and we went to online classes soon after. Once we got back to in-person classes I could see the shift, pandemic lockdowns forced people to be terminally online, and depending on where the algorithm sent you dictated how you would become as a person.

I also talked to some younger guys not long ago and they were all pieces of shit as well. No decency, making fun of people right next to them, saying racist shit without a care for getting called out.

The other day I went to korean bbq and held the door open for these high school kids as I was leaving and I got clowned by them. Being nice to people means you lose "aura", I guess.