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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce
I feel for our youth and that of the Anglosphere at large. The deck is very much stacked against them and the lockdown has only made things worse.
On top of that, we tell them from a very young age that their countries were built on the backs of slaves on land stolen from indigenous people. Everything about their homeland and its history is toxic and corrupt. It is a stain which we are not allowed to scrub from our past.
In a world where redemption is impossible, I can't understand is why anyone under a certain age wouldn't want to blow it up.
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Kind of related phenomenon. There's less social mobility and greater social stratification. This will be the first generation to be poorer than their parents. And given our ideals of meritocracy (whether perceived or actual), that leads to self-blame and resentment. Emphasizing contingent historical factors like the exploitation of the Indigenous undermines the elite within this meritocratic structure. It's a way of fighting back.
I've seen an increasing trend of completely shutting down an interlocutor by merely pointing at their immutable characteristics. E.g., 'you should sit down and stop commenting because you are a [man / cisgendered / heterosexual / white]'. It's no longer permissible to use the reasoning abilities and empathy to make sense of a situation; it's all about lived-in experience. Basically, it's increasingly becoming about who you are rather than what you do / know.
Not sure what stance to take, but perhaps best not to take a stance and just lay low during the cultural revolution. Just roll with it. Engage in some performative wokeness to avoid any suspicion from the mobs and their network of informants.
Best of luck, comrade.
#BlackLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #CHAZ
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