White teenage males are bad
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That was written from the standpoint of one whose sense of victimhood informs his whole life.
Middle class white teen males go through the same secret feelings of inferiority and not knowing one's place in the world as any other teen. And I guarantee you that while I grew up in a two-parent family, I did not grow up privileged in any significant way. The black kids I grew up with who did the right things to make a life for themselves did fine. Did they experience racism? Probably. Did it stop them? Nope.
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Most notably, “white replacement theory,” or the fear that white people are in danger of becoming this country’s minority, is the foundational framework of conservative pundits. And it’s the reason mass shootings—like the ones in Charleston, Pittsburgh and El Paso—are becoming more and more frequent.
I assume that everyone in the entire world realizes this is nonsense.
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@jon-nyc said in White teenage males are bad:
Now they tell me, my white son turns 13 in a couple of weeks.
Ask him what he's going to do with all that luck.
It's never too soon to have him start checking his privilege and hating himself for something he can't control.
(and happy birthday, of course!)
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@Ivorythumper said in White teenage males are bad:
@jon-nyc said in White teenage males are bad:
Now they tell me, my white son turns 13 in a couple of weeks.
Ask him what he's going to do with all that luck.
It's never too soon to have him start checking his privilege and hating himself for something he can't control.
(and happy birthday, of course!)
One thing I’ve seen, which gives me hope, is an anti-woke backlash among the (quite) young. The usual pattern of kids rebelling against the prevailing orthodoxy is serving us well in these coastal blue state schools.
I imagine your kids have a different experience going to catholic schools, they’re not exposed to this particular brand of nonsense like my son is.
