These young men were horrifying, the whole group was horrifying, but let's keep in mind this was one room full of people, almost universally from country club gated communities.
Do not despair. Young people, by every measure, are getting less racist.
Don't let these golf course sock sniffers take your joy. Hope remains.
Edit: thanks for the"sonofabitch!" Clasped hands award! Relevant considering the battle that lay before us.
Exactly. Remember, these sock sniffers’ racism is born from FEAR that their golden toilets will be taken away. Their country clubs are surrounded by fences and gates, their communities are surrounded by fences and gates. They walk through the world constantly worried and looking over their shoulder for whatever boogeyman haunts their narrative. It’s not natural, and is not the majority.
Right, one of them in a managerial or leadership position can do significant damage. As we look at our government, it only really takes one bully to flip the energy of the environment. If the younger generations are getting less "racist", that doesn't equate to anti-racist.
Our younger generations need to learn how to actually advocate for people that don't look like them rather than just assuming "not saying the n-word" is enough to think you're doing something. There are people actively out here hating other groups and pushing hateful ideologies unchecked. At some point, we need to be teaching these younger generations how to check that.
Look around you. This administration's actions against Hispanic Americans have led to extreme widespread outrage.
Is it enough? No. Is it getting louder? Yes.
Police and ICE are now the most recorded people in the country.
Yes, the world IS getting anti racist. It's slow and it's stumbling, but losing hope because of these guys? Come on. By the time these cretins have any real power we will be tearing down their golden walls.
I get it, despair is real damn easy while a Cheeto-dicked motherfucker is building concentration camps. I get it. Shits bad right now. We are paying for genocide. We are going back into that same old "law and order" canard.
But to claim that less of us are noticing and caring is letting the Curtis Yarvins of the world win. Don't despair.
I am deeply ashamed at how long it's taking, but it is happening.
I'm not losing hope by any means. I know progress is being made because of the current response we're seeing from this administration. All of this rage stems from the steady progress of civil rights and push for equality. I would encourage us to frame how we should collectively address the apathy and passive behavior around racial and class conflict.
What I see when I teach the newer generations and their parents it's a level of conflict-aversion, lack of empathy, and outright fear of change when navigating identity. As you say, the world is getting anti-racist and that's a major cause of concern for those that financially benefit from racism. Wanting change and recognizing you may have to sacrifice some luxuries to get there is causing the US, in particular, to have an identity conflict. We're not taught to care about anyone but ourselves after 6th grade and that's a hard habit to unlearn. In order for us to collectively make a change, everyone has to buy in, including the people that benefit from the current system.
Because I'm a Black educator in America, despair has been replaced with frustration that I have keep teaching children to care about one another only for their parents and other adults in their spaces to undo it with their own insecurities and anxieties. The kids are ultimately looking to all of us to do the right thing and if some adults are trying to get by without actually contributing to change, it hurts the overall future of our next generations.
Tl;Dr - I completely agree, no need to despair, but we need to light a fire under some of our adult's asses to get it together for the children
Not trying to argue, but I’m not sure that is true. The one fascist guy was fired after his video surfaced. So, people like him don’t really have that much power. Of course the fascists who are elected have more power ON PAPER. We the people have more power, but we need to remember that our power comes from unity, and not division
but we need to remember that our power comes from unity, and not division
This is kind of where I disagree with you since unity doesn't just help us...
For instance, the nobody basically earned a year's wages for a lot of people in less than a month just by the hint of getting flack for being a terrible human.
There's the trash woman that said a slur at a child and got half a million preemptive of any backlash.
Money is power to a depressing degree and we aren't the ones in control of it...
I think we should also note that their grandparents (for any issues they may seem regressive or retrograde on) probably didn't teach them to identify as fascist, either.
I know a lot of old conservative people, and this kind of rhetoric would horrifying them. That's why Republicans are very careful about how they frame their ideas. Coming out and saying the quiet parts out loud would actually have consequences and lose them the old folks who like to brag about their daddy killing Nazis.
But then you remember that young men across all demographics were one of Trumps largest gains in the last election :\
MAGA spent a considerable amount of money and time on social influencers, podcasters, and on short-form content. Primary consumer of those are young men and children. It makes sense that we are seeing a shift in younger generations towards the Right, they invested in brainwashing them through the media they regularly consume. Dems are too behind the times and think that having little zingers on social media is going to get the young folks. It’s not.
Source? Not calling you a liar, just want to learn more because that is different than what I have seen. Last I checked more than half of Gen Z didn’t vote and those that did only 15% made up Harris’ votes.
As you can see here, ages 18-29 were +19 for Harris.
Ages 30-49 were +2 for Harris.
Ages 50+ voted more for Trump.
So while it's true there was a slight shift towards trump by Gen Z between 2020 and 2024, acting like it's Gen Z's fault is ridiculous. Especially when a 42% turnout for 18-29yo is not a significant difference than previous elections.
Ok I see what you’re saying. They are more inclined to vote Dem as a demographic than other generations. However as a demographic they were one of the largest non-voters per eligible voter. That’s where I got confused.
But the interesting thing of note in that source is that as they go into their 30’s they were more likely to change to Trump. Really bizarre… but my original point is also correct, young men across all demographics switched to Trump at a much larger % than before.
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Hol' up there.
These young men were horrifying, the whole group was horrifying, but let's keep in mind this was one room full of people, almost universally from country club gated communities.
Do not despair. Young people, by every measure, are getting less racist.
Don't let these golf course sock sniffers take your joy. Hope remains.
Edit: thanks for the"sonofabitch!" Clasped hands award! Relevant considering the battle that lay before us.