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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think todays kids are fighting back about the policing of language and calling everyone a racist.[/b] 
What did they specifically say?  Was it actually something racist or just a generalization about a specific race?  There is a difference. [/quote]

This. We see it a lot in our kids’ friend groups—a very specific kind of eye-rolling/mocking tone about the fixation on race, sexuality, etc. among older liberals. It’s clearly meant not to be racist but to make fun of the excesses of the DEI policing they’ve all been subject to since birth.

This is a fairly diverse group—at least racially (though all are UMC teens and tweens in the same neighborhood). To the point where we’ve had to talk to our own kids more than once about how what they say could be perceived by people outside their friend group. But we do this solely for their own protection… they are 100% about the absurdity of the speech codes they’re mocking. [/quote]

I agree with this.  It's common.  They're rejecting the tone and the tone policing because it is developmentally normal for them to react against their parents and authority figures in their life.[/quote]

Yup, that's exactly what it is.  I don't think they are taking some moral high ground.  It's more that, at this age, anything their teachers/parents do is considered silly or lame, so they will do the opposite.

So the more we police language, the more likely they are to mock how strict the language police are.  [/quote]

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