young people on tiktok now like Osama Bin Laden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberals cannot control the beasts they raised and created.

Liberals? Who has cornered the market on violent rhetoric? Conservatives! Please see J6.

Or the Weather Underground fifty years ago. Oh wait, they weren't conservatives.

50 years ago? Why not bring up the dinosaurs or the Romans? Conservative openly and repeatedly call for violence against the Dems today. They also acted on it on J6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberals cannot control the beasts they raised and created.

Liberals? Who has cornered the market on violent rhetoric? Conservatives! Please see J6.

Or the Weather Underground fifty years ago. Oh wait, they weren't conservatives.

50 years ago? Why not bring up the dinosaurs or the Romans? Conservative openly and repeatedly call for violence against the Dems today. They also acted on it on J6.

Sorry, Weather Underground is very much something that plays into today as members highly influenced at least one recent president. Those members are boomers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you suggesting that allowing a hostile foreign power to directly influence our county’s young people via a widely used platform is a bad idea?

This. China is laughing all the way through the self-destruct sequence they initiated.

[Anonymous]

It's one thing to disagree with Israel's response, I do disagree. It's totally another level of mindfu$$ to acknowledge that Osama Bin Laden made sense, I mean really??? The horrors of 9/11 will forever live with me, the first responders, NYPD and so many families destroyed by that heinous act. I may not remember what I did yesterday but I remember every single thing about the day of 9/11, every.single.thing. This is the problem with getting your information from social media, typically it has no context, no history to educate you fully. Just soundbites to get more clicks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's one thing to disagree with Israel's response, I do disagree. It's totally another level of mindfu$$ to acknowledge that Osama Bin Laden made sense, I mean really??? The horrors of 9/11 will forever live with me, the first responders, NYPD and so many families destroyed by that heinous act. I may not remember what I did yesterday but I remember every single thing about the day of 9/11, every.single.thing. This is the problem with getting your information from social media, typically it has no context, no history to educate you fully. Just soundbites to get more clicks.

Same, but we were there. The young adults of today were not, or were babies.

[Anonymous]

This is OP - and if it's any comfort: I was speaking at a college class today - not about social media, but since I was there, I asked the kids if they'd seen this OBL stuff on TikTok. They all said no. I don't know if they were just telling me what I wanted to hear, but they all did seem genuinely surprised to learn that Bin Laden's become a viral hero right now. So I guess #notallyoungs.

TikTok really needs to be banned. *Then* our problems will be over.

This whole thing - this, and the Gaza protests, honestly - feels like these young people are about to go helter skelter on all the older people they see as insufficiently, I don't know. Insufficiently anti-western, I guess. I don't want to drag Israel into this conversation, because the threads about Israel are so gd toxic - but it does feel like these things are connected. Not 100%, but in some ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberals cannot control the beasts they raised and created.

Liberals? Who has cornered the market on violent rhetoric? Conservatives! Please see J6.

Or the Weather Underground fifty years ago. Oh wait, they weren't conservatives.

50 years ago? Why not bring up the dinosaurs or the Romans? Conservative openly and repeatedly call for violence against the Dems today. They also acted on it on J6.

I officially declare that history starts when it is convenient for my philosophy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP - and if it's any comfort: I was speaking at a college class today - not about social media, but since I was there, I asked the kids if they'd seen this OBL stuff on TikTok. They all said no. I don't know if they were just telling me what I wanted to hear, but they all did seem genuinely surprised to learn that Bin Laden's become a viral hero right now. So I guess #notallyoungs.

TikTok really needs to be banned. *Then* our problems will be over.

This whole thing - this, and the Gaza protests, honestly - feels like these young people are about to go helter skelter on all the older people they see as insufficiently, I don't know. Insufficiently anti-western, I guess. I don't want to drag Israel into this conversation, because the threads about Israel are so gd toxic - but it does feel like these things are connected. Not 100%, but in some ways.

I agree

[Anonymous]

No, banning TikTok will not "stop our problems." That's crazy.

I also don't like the OBL crud, but this is a very fringe number of young people talking about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, banning TikTok will not "stop our problems." That's crazy.

I also don't like the OBL crud, but this is a very fringe number of young people talking about this.

I was obv being facetious about it solving all our problems

TikTok sh** isn't that fringe, I don't think, unfortunately

[Anonymous]

I’ve been saying Tiktok is an alternative universe.

I’m not surprised these kids are saying this. Many weren’t even born or were toddlers during 9/11 so they don’t truly understand the horrors of that day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's one thing to disagree with Israel's response, I do disagree. It's totally another level of mindfu$$ to acknowledge that Osama Bin Laden made sense, I mean really??? The horrors of 9/11 will forever live with me, the first responders, NYPD and so many families destroyed by that heinous act. I may not remember what I did yesterday but I remember every single thing about the day of 9/11, every.single.thing. This is the problem with getting your information from social media, typically it has no context, no history to educate you fully. Just soundbites to get more clicks.

Same, but we were there. The young adults of today were not, or were babies.

just like the young adluts today have no real touch to the Holocaust and as such don't understand why Israel is considered such a valued partner.

This is why education and history (cough for all of the STEM adherants who say humanities have no place in colleges cough) is so important.

[Anonymous]

Humanities is so much more important than STEM. Being able to place and understand posturing like this is crucial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberals cannot control the beasts they raised and created.

Liberals? Who has cornered the market on violent rhetoric? Conservatives! Please see J6.

sorry but I am willing to bet most of these kids are not conservative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TikTok is largely a highly successful psyop campaign by China, which combined with a lack of rigor (from the left) and funding (from the right) in public education. When both the left and the right conspire to weaken public education, it leaves room for hostile foreign entities to take its place. Nonsense like this results.

We all of course know that most of the loud and dumb voices on TikTok supporting Bin Laden would be the first immediately executed in the radical Islamist caliphate that he envisioned, assuming they are actually normal people and not foreign paid agents. But this is a group of people without basic education. Keep in mind a lot of the loudest voices here lost 1-2 years of schooling at an absolutely critical juncture in their education.

The US doesn’t value education any more, across the board politically. This is the result.

Don't disagree, but as a Baltimore resident, I can assure you that more school funding is not the solution.