IMHO, it made McD’s look like health food. The salt and fat content of those… “meals”… is astronomical. There is a reason they so damned cheap, and it ain’t because Kraft is so big hearted.
While these are just observations within our own high school, we believe that this is happening across the country. Young, well-off white boys from liberal families are being tempted by conservatism simply to protect an archaic idea of masculinity that guarantees them inherent power. It is not as if they are against abortion, or care much about the economy or immigration, or even feel remotely attracted to the rest of conservative dogma. But clearly, a shift back toward traditional gender roles is resonating with them now as progression toward female empowerment threatens their already delicate self esteem.
So how do we address this, going forward? How do we ensure that young boys practice critical thinking instead of falling victim to Trump’s rhetoric with its focus on recommitting to gender stereotypes that we believed had finally been eradicated?
Parents, we urge you to be aware of this growing phenomenon and teach your children about the dangers of calculated political movements designed to further one politician’s agenda. Until we do so, it is likely this pattern will continue. Boys in our school as young as eight are beginning to exhibit these same misogynistic tendencies that we never remember noticing when we were their age. And the most dangerous aspect of this is how little it’s talked about in mainstream media and how easily it has been overlooked in progressive communities. In fact this is an epidemic that will continue to spread rapidly until we start talking about it.
Here’s a big part of the problem:
Spotify Top Podcasts:
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- The Tucker Carlson Show
- This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
- Shawn Ryan Show
- Story Time with K (kids story time)
- Candace (Owens)
- The Charlie Kirk Show
- The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
- The Megyn Kelly Show
- REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Numbers 1, 3, 4, and 7 all appeal to young men and all are right wing. Numbers 2, 6, and 9 are also right wing even though they don’t specifically target young men. Only the Jon Stewart show is on the political left. At this point, between podcasts, FoxNews/NewsMax/OAN, and social media, right wing propaganda has become ubiquitous. It has, for the time being, won the information war. The left just doesn’t have the same level of presence in people’s lives. This is the thing we need to focus on fixing. This is the problem.
Yeah, in part because it’s deeply profitable… It’s much harder to make facts and leftist politics profitable, because it’s rarely based on click-bait types of outrage content…
Speaking of social media, my YouTube recommendations are starting to show a ton of right wing content. I have never, every consumed any right wing content. There is no reason why any of this stuff should be getting recommended to me, but it is. I mean Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson bullshit. I really don’t want to start buying into conspiracy theories, but I can’t think of any reason why this content would show up in my recommendations.
That’s right fucked up… every now and again, I’ll see some right wing bullshit on mine, but for the most part it’s still heavily weighted towards the left or centrist news outlets… But I think that the algorithm has long been fucked and isn’t as neutral as they like to portray.
thankfully you can tell YT to never recommend the video or more specifically a channel
Trump himself has repeatedly promised to eliminate the Department of Education. As he promised in 2016. Reagan also promised to eliminate it, and it was just created the year before he took office. I’m not sure if either Bush promised to do that, but it wouldn’t surprise me. The problem they always run into is that the President cannot eliminate an executive department. Only Congress can do that, because it’s Congress who creates them.
Have you been watching progressive content that is criticizing any of the MAGA BS? My spouse watches a lot of videos discussing toxic masculinity but still gets recommended videos that are praising Jordan Peterson and such. He thinks it’s to tempt him into rage-watching the right wing content
Umm…some, but nothing more lately than normal. Actually, since the election, I’ve been trying to avoid political content at all because I just can’t right now.
Cross-posting
With a trifecta it can certainly be done. I am guessing there’s also nothing stopping an education Secretary from using any funding to do nothing more than pay for vouchers or some other bullshit.
I’m holding out some hope that R’s in congress aren’t so short sighted to see how zeroing out funding for education hurts their constituents and how for red state R’s that most of that education money comes from blue states. I have a feeling defunding public education in their state or paying for it through increased state taxes won’t be popular.
As fucked as things are looking, nothing would surprise me in this day and age.
LinkedIn suggested I follow Jordan Peterson and Vivek Ramaswamy this past week FFS
There is nothing in my minimalist profile that would suggest any overlap.
Same
When Sam Brownback was governor of Kansas, he gutted public education in the state, along with a lot of other public programs. He basically went full austerity. Today, Kansas has a Democratic governor and overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion last year. These things are not unconnected. The results of Brownback’s governance proved enormously unpopular. This is my hope. That the same will happen now on a national scale. But the right wing propaganda machine is a lot stronger than it was even 4 years ago.
I know someone who did their undergrad there (though he’s a science guy)… 
They’re gonna bring in more adjuncts to teach those classes, so that won’t be an issue, for the short term.