Came across another good substack today on my internet travels:
original: https://dennisonwrites.substack.com/p/why-your-son-is-right-wing
archive: https://archive.is/6Idmx
We trapped these kids in an ideological straight jacket against which they were not allowed to resist. Against which resisting made them evil. Then we gasped in horror when they aged out of our stewardship and decided that, actually, they’d had rather enough of all that.
Not to be hyperbolic, but what we did to these guys was something like abuse. What we did to their childhoods was something like theft. And we would have no trouble - none at all - understanding that if it had been any other group on the receiving end. We caused them to come of age in a world that hated and blamed them, and that never missed an opportunity to remind them of just how much.
10 years. For 10 years, we did this.
We also ruthlessly punished any liberal voices that dared extend them comfort or encouragement. Thus ensuring that the only supportive voices they could hear from were the toxic ones who’d made “cancel-proof” edge-lording their whole brand.
I know this is a bit long, but I think it is very good.
Don't forget sjw.
I picked up on these inconsistencies in behavior from a young age and they gnawed at me as I got older. After getting derided for being the best in my grade academically and refusing to say women are better than men I realized it was all a scam. I was probably 12. This was before 2010
Yeah I was picking up problems with it in middle school myself, though I was certainly too scared to speak up on a lot of the problems, sans the gender one. Plus there was that youthful ignorance of "let people do their thing" regarding a lot of it.
Which is why I take a lot of issue with people acting like "omg, how could we have known it would get this bad? I voted for Obama three times but like I'm so totes on your side now!" It was obvious to a retarded little swamp boy who'd never even been to a city, how could anyone not figure it out?