young people on tiktok now like Osama Bin Laden

[Anonymous]

I'm starting to think that the doomsayers were right about TikTok - and also that the conservatives who said our decadent society was going to crumble were maybe onto something, too.

I'm a moderate D - I still support Biden. I am as middle of the road as they come. And I'm starting to understand why older people are so dismissive and wary of the youngs.

The Guardian took down the letter because it was getting too much traffic after going viral on TikTok

[Anonymous]

I can't stand TikTok after they banned me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't stand TikTok after they banned me

What in the world did you do to get banned - say you support Israel and don't like Bin Laden?!

[Anonymous]

What’s next? idolizing and justifying ISIS and claiming they were right?

Critical thinking skills are lacking in young people whose brains haven’t finished developing and who seemed easily swayed. Also radicalization isn’t reserved for Qanon lovers; it’s happening to young affluent liberal people (particularly white) who seem to need to quickly latch onto some idea with no real world experience or struggles.

The dots connecting that Bin Laden was ends justified the means because American citizens paid taxes that funded a government that had foreign policy that supported Israel or that supported oil rights in the Gulf is dangerously close to saying theories that would support blowing up China (as an example).
or the eugenic positions that were used to build “a better and stronger Germany) 80-90 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s next? idolizing and justifying ISIS and claiming they were right?

Critical thinking skills are lacking in young people whose brains haven’t finished developing and who seemed easily swayed. Also radicalization isn’t reserved for Qanon lovers; it’s happening to young affluent liberal people (particularly white) who seem to need to quickly latch onto some idea with no real world experience or struggles.

The dots connecting that Bin Laden was ends justified the means because American citizens paid taxes that funded a government that had foreign policy that supported Israel or that supported oil rights in the Gulf is dangerously close to saying theories that would support blowing up China (as an example).
or the eugenic positions that were used to build “a better and stronger Germany) 80-90 years ago.

I am OP - and yes, to all of this. It's terrifying watching young people getting radicalized like this. I honestly don't know what to make of it - or what we can do. It makes me want to check out, to be honest, and I don't think that's the best response. But what is? What is HAPPENING? And what comes of this? Is this no different from when we put on our Che t-shirts in the 90s - or is it different in some important way?

[Anonymous]

Tik Tok is like fentanyl for our youth.
China is laughing their asses off.

[Anonymous]

Is it any wonder we have millions of young people protesting the war in Gaza and justifying what Hamas terrorists did to innocent Israelis?

[Anonymous]

There are posts on dcum from 2015 articulating how bin Laden won

From 2021, nymag and New Yorker both had retrospectives on bin Laden strategic victory

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

This is a natural outcome of the right, who have been preaching violence towards opponents is a viable solution to political differences. The GOP has normalized violent rhetoric.

[Anonymous]

I wonder what in the letter touched them so much?

Maybe it was the homophobia?

Or his blaming America for AIDS?

Or his desire to see America become a Muslim nation?

Silly me -- it's the Jew-hate! Always good for uniting people.

Needless to say, none of these Tik-Tokkers would survive under the rule of the Taliban or Al Quaeda or ISIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s next? idolizing and justifying ISIS and claiming they were right?

Critical thinking skills are lacking in young people whose brains haven’t finished developing and who seemed easily swayed. Also radicalization isn’t reserved for Qanon lovers; it’s happening to young affluent liberal people (particularly white) who seem to need to quickly latch onto some idea with no real world experience or struggles.

The dots connecting that Bin Laden was ends justified the means because American citizens paid taxes that funded a government that had foreign policy that supported Israel or that supported oil rights in the Gulf is dangerously close to saying theories that would support blowing up China (as an example).
or the eugenic positions that were used to build “a better and stronger Germany) 80-90 years ago.

Perhaps you should stop for a moment and ask yourself why groups like Isis and Hamas exist? They were not created in a vacuum.

[Anonymous]

Liberals cannot control the beasts they raised and created.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it any wonder we have millions of young people protesting the war in Gaza and justifying what Hamas terrorists did to innocent Israelis?

You can keep repeating this but it doesn’t change the fact that young people are waking up to the truth. Palestinian Muslim, Christians and Jews lived side by side peacefully prior to the creation of Israel in 1948 (which was created with the help of Western powers like Britain).

[Anonymous]

Do they know he's dead?