not my point. I'm a zoomer and I went to high school too. kids my age are clueless.
What did zoomers mean by this?
Jace Gomez
Caleb Lee
It literally always was
T.compsci graduate
Matthew Edwards
it gets better right?
t. 18yo zoomer
Christian Cox
I might be one of the older people here and by that I mean I rember when George W. Bush's approval ratings were 90 percent among the general public and he'd win the class elections at my school in a landslide. The idea that the youth are more fascist now doesn't really seem credible to me.
The main thing that I see that's different with the zoomers compared to millennials is more gender bending. Like, millennials are cool with gays (I am gay) but homosexuality is still stuck in the gender binary. Zoomers are playing around with gender in more radical ways.
Jaxson Allen
Also there are these alt-right groups and so on, but my city had actual, scary neo-Nazi skinhead gangs in the 1990s that came close to having their own hoods they controlled. Most of them went to prison though and I think they started getting beat out of town by other punks which changed things considerably.
Carson Walker
The only teens I know are relatives (it'd be weird if I knew any others) like my cousins, and they are pretty lefty in a broad cultural sense. Tolerance and equality are big things with them.
I was watching Death of Stalin with my Trump uncle over the holidays last year and it was fun explaining internal Politburo politics with him. You know, right-wing people can be fun to talk to and I think a lot of them see actual no-shit Leninists as enemies they can respect in a way if you really hit them with Georgy Zhukov's armored divisions. My zoomer cousin wandered in and mentioned there's a table full of "history nerds" at her high school that go around joking about Stalin and putting people into gulags lmao
There are racist kids who show up to class wearing Waffen SS uniforms and so on, but I remember a lot of that when I was growing up too, and a friend of mine ended up becoming a neo-Nazi skinhead, which made me sad because he was a nice guy – he had a broken, messed-up background. He flunked out of high school and funny enough used to cross dress and wear makeup. I went to goth clubs with him when we were 17 years old where he'd be wearing nothing but women's lingerie.
Anyways, there is some young guy here who formed an alt-right / neo-Nazi group and I came across some of his high school classmates talking about him on Twitter, and they were all like "ohhhhh that guy, yeaahhhh he was really weird and creepy." Those kids have always been around, but the broad masses of people out there including among the youth are not Nazis and it's pretty obvious if you just walk around and observe, and it seems like there is much more racial co-mingling among the youth than even my generation and I'm squarely in the millennial cohort.
Jonathan Mitchell
You can smell the desperation.
Christopher Morgan
the only reason you stop playing video games that much is if you get a full time job. unless you become a neet
t. 27 year old boomer
Brayden Young
Feels good I guess?
t.wizard
Joseph King
Zoomer here, and yes, many have had their brains rotted from consuming too much internet content. If you engage with any young conservative you will quickly realize that the only thing they have the ability to do is repeat the catchphrases of their favorite talking heads and be racist. They almost all harbor extreme distaste for the world as it is, unless they are the spawn of the ruling class, and even then, some of those are too empathetic to offer full support for the status quo. Almost all that I know got into being reactionary from wanting to be edgy. Most cannot offer any encompassing ideology, instead offering a bizarre mix of everything you listed alongside name-brand US conservatism. A lot of them will grow out of it in time, but probably into mellower liberal-conservatism and not into leftism unless something is done about it.
They dislike the prominent online leftists due to their adherence to idpol and political correctness and refuse to engage with any actual materialist analysis or marxist theory as a result of both this and the denigration of leftism in essentially all forms of US education. The best thing that one can do is make videos that explain leftism in a way they can grasp it, which is easier said than done, accounting for the fact that most of them fail to even comprehend the manifesto. As much as youtube types are disliked on here and other forums, I do think that people like Contrapoints have the right idea. It is crucial that someone with a similar style to hers with a heavier focus on marxism enters the youtube ecosystem. Having 90% of marxist youtubers and online personalities be non-native speakers of English with horrible accents who have a 30 video playlist defending Pol Pot does not help the cause.
Owning reactionaries on forums doesn't help in the same way debate with reactionaries doesn't really help. If you were to argue with someone who saw the entire world through a Zen-Buddhist view it would be equally productive. There is no common ground on which to base an argument, and so these things inevitable devolve into disagreements over the definitions of basic terms like "law."