I think it helps to have a nuanced opinion and make sure we don't spiral into an echo chamber. For my example, I've found that lefties are able to identify a lot of the right problems, it's just that they think gay space communism is the solution to it.
For instance, I completely agree that North American cities are really stupidly designed. The car-centric nature of them means you're stranded if your vehicle breaks down. The fact that you have to go into debt to buy this big stupid box to navigate your own city is ridiculous in the first place.
But when it comes to their solutions for this they can't separate their stupid idpol nonsense from it. My local city government keeps talking about "equitable solutions" to traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Typical "world ending, women most affected" type stuff.
Plus they keep droning on about high density housing which absolutely no one wants to live in. in their utopia we'd all live in depressing Soviet-style block apartments.
Kids learn more by what they observe than what they are explicitly told.
If a man tells his son don't hit women, but he's constantly hitting his own wife, the kid will likely grow up thinking it is okay to hit women, and to do it himself.
So, parents don't have to tell their kids "those games are just pretend", they just need to not act violently in real life to get the message across.
I'll just be blunt, a lot of black kids are raised in fatherless homes. I think it's something like 50-85% depending on how it's defined. So they only have games/TV/celebrities as a reference.