is it social media/redpill content’s fault? I’m kinda clueless here.
I think later millenials and early gen z caught that perfect timing of the internet maturing.
Though after that, the internet got massive and consolidated into these social media bubbles, which have been easy for bad actors to control. And with smartphones then becoming a device people cant live without, its contributed to a downward spiral, where it’s easy to spread hatred.
The red pill content to repulsive personality to social rejection to isolation to even more extreme red pill content to lather rinse repeat pipeline
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If you read the actual article youll see that its not that gigantic a change actually. It’s pretty slight on the whole, and makes sense as American Neo Fascism has expanded massively in the past 10 years.
There are no more young moderate conservatives, they’re all Nazis instead
Those are mostly the same thing. For my entire life conservatives have coalesced around hurting as many people as possible. The Christianity nonsense? They only care about the parts that hurt people. Economically? They only do things that hurt people. Socially? Oh boy…
It just seems like Gen z has just dropped many flimsy facades.
yknow, my older gen z friends say there is a sharp divide between older and younger of their generation. we came to the conclusion that it is a culmination of many things but primarily the dismantling of the education system and focus on standardized testing, and the reliance on smart devices and dependence on social media. modern parents are more hands off as a rule, largely to make up for overbearing parents or abusive childhoods, and because of that the favoring of devices to aid in parenting is an issue. my friend told me that younger gen z really struggles academically and socially, and that they’re prone to emotional instability when challenged. additionally, i have seen several teachers in videos discussing what teaching is like nowadays and it honestly sounds like a nightmare merely dealing with students alone. some of these children can read the words in front of them but not connect them logically. it’s as if they know what the shapes mean without meaning. they know how to pronounce them and to read them. what the absolute hell is that? lol
there’s other crazy shit but the point is even gen z is worried about gen z and younger. they’re more far-right, more intolerant, more racist, more queerphobic… it sucks. they are dumber and get their information and entertainment from an echo chamber. it’s worse the younger you go according to teachers. idk what the hell we’re going to do.
They made thinking machines so we wouldn’t have to think for ourselves. What you’re describing is the natural outcome of that. AI is only making this worse. The brains of children go unused as they merely sway in the winds created by AI-generated online influencers. AI says jump, the kids ask how high. Just accept it and eat your tidepod or whatever the new fad is… :/ We who see are deemed too woke, too old, and bothersome to listen to, like the generations before who tried to teach us what they knew.
Men under 24 have largely lived in a world of higher gay acceptance than previous generations. (broadly speaking about western society, not places like saudi or fundamentalist sects)
There’s a lot more intolerance to stigmatizing gay people, cops prosecute crimes against gay people, gay people aren’t as openly discriminated at work like in the past. Homosexuality is more accepted in 2026 than in the 1990s.
I wonder if living in a community where they haven’t seen violent gay intolerance makes them unaware of what they are advocating for.
Same thing could be said for anti-vaxxers. Never had to live through polio, measles, or other diseases running rampant and wreaking havoc on the population so they don’t have the perspective to immediately see the benefits that vaccines have afforded us.
Edit: before anyone points it out, yes I’m aware there was a pandemic a few years back and anti-vaxxers were coming out of the woodwork. But by that point there were politically manufactured anti-science movements with troublingly eugenicist undertones in full force. COVID was most lethal towards the sick and elderly, which a lot of conservatives wrote off as “acceptable losses,” measles and polio affected children who were otherwise healthy.
I’m so happy I turned 24 last month, my boyfriend wouldnt take it well
Extremist individuals on the left have been pushing more radical trans ideology despite not being well received. Many people on the left, even the progressive types I know—including myself—are routinely called MAGA supporters by members of the party they align with the most by people claiming there are no biological differences at all between a man & woman, despite hundreds of years of science to the contrary.
So, when it gets brought up in their family, and they all agree that there needs to be rational rules when it comes to things like endurance sports to ensure fairness, then there is a small but vocal minority so quick to call them bigoted Trump supporters. Sometimes it just comes down to semantics, where people that have respect for all individuals, don’t like words with historical context rooted in biology & science being co-opted. So even those who have been respectful & supportive of trans individuals are met with extreme hostility if they won’t go further & say trans people aren’t trans, but that they are truly the sex of the gender norms they associate with.
That then leaves them feeling politically homeless, and often times they will end up exploring all kinds of theories as to why there is this inorganic culture war being pushed on them and if it was used elsewhere. Obviously, some of them just realize there is a culture war but other times they will end up finding refuge by people looking to exploit their questioning.
I think it’s more generic than that, although trans issues are one of the most common ways this phenomenon currently manifests. It seems to me that the left (in the monolithic internet culture sense of the word) has completely forgotten the difference between tolerance and active support. Everyone acts like if you’re not out there leading a protest, or at least loudly broadcasting your opinion on every issue in an effort to prove that you hold all the Good Beliefs™, then you’re one of the bad guys.
That’s not what tolerance is. Tolerance simply means I’m not doing anything to impede your ability to live your life the way you see fit. I don’t need to be involved in your movement at all to be tolerant of your lifestyle. Forcing people to virtue signal about being on your team isn’t helpful. It alienates a lot of people and drives at least some of them to choose to be on the other team because they feel like they don’t have any other option. Let them be allies in a different fight instead of forcing them to pick the other side in this endless all-or-nothing war some of us seem intent on waging.
