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While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a "matriarchy." However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

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[-] sculd@beehaw.org 73 points 1 year ago

Maybe kid watching too much Andrew Turd or Lobster cult? That's why de-platforming is so important. These people are genuinely harmful to the world.

[-] thekbob@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

Grifters are a symptom, not the cause. I agree with getting rid of them, but more will follow.

[-] Boinketh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As long as young men and boys see that they are discriminated against, devalued, and excluded, there will always be grifters ready to convince them that their problems are caused by some other group of normal people instead of the people actually doing the discrimination and steering the values of society.

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