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?