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[–] 34 points 9 months ago (3 children)

is it social media/redpill content's fault? I'm kinda clueless here.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago*

    I think later millenials and early gen z caught that perfect timing of the internet maturing.

    Though after that, the internet got massive and consolidated into these social media bubbles, which have been easy for bad actors to control. And with smartphones then becoming a device people cant live without, its contributed to a downward spiral, where it's easy to spread hatred.

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    [–] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If you read the actual article youll see that its not that gigantic a change actually. It's pretty slight on the whole, and makes sense as American Neo Fascism has expanded massively in the past 10 years.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    There are no more young moderate conservatives, they're all Nazis instead

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Those are mostly the same thing. For my entire life conservatives have coalesced around hurting as many people as possible. The Christianity nonsense? They only care about the parts that hurt people. Economically? They only do things that hurt people. Socially? Oh boy...

    It just seems like Gen z has just dropped many flimsy facades.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    yknow, my older gen z friends say there is a sharp divide between older and younger of their generation. we came to the conclusion that it is a culmination of many things but primarily the dismantling of the education system and focus on standardized testing, and the reliance on smart devices and dependence on social media. modern parents are more hands off as a rule, largely to make up for overbearing parents or abusive childhoods, and because of that the favoring of devices to aid in parenting is an issue. my friend told me that younger gen z really struggles academically and socially, and that they're prone to emotional instability when challenged. additionally, i have seen several teachers in videos discussing what teaching is like nowadays and it honestly sounds like a nightmare merely dealing with students alone. some of these children can read the words in front of them but not connect them logically. it's as if they know what the shapes mean without meaning. they know how to pronounce them and to read them. what the absolute hell is that? lol

    there's other crazy shit but the point is even gen z is worried about gen z and younger. they're more far-right, more intolerant, more racist, more queerphobic.. it sucks. they are dumber and get their information and entertainment from an echo chamber. it's worse the younger you go according to teachers. idk what the hell we're going to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    They made thinking machines so we wouldn't have to think for ourselves. What you're describing is the natural outcome of that. AI is only making this worse. The brains of children go unused as they merely sway in the winds created by AI-generated online influencers. AI says jump, the kids ask how high. Just accept it and eat your tidepod or whatever the new fad is... :/ We who see are deemed too woke, too old, and bothersome to listen to, like the generations before who tried to teach us what they knew.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Men under 24 have largely lived in a world of higher gay acceptance than previous generations. (broadly speaking about western society, not places like saudi or fundamentalist sects)

    There's a lot more intolerance to stigmatizing gay people, cops prosecute crimes against gay people, gay people aren't as openly discriminated at work like in the past. Homosexuality is more accepted in 2026 than in the 1990s.

    I wonder if living in a community where they haven't seen violent gay intolerance makes them unaware of what they are advocating for.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago*

    Same thing could be said for anti-vaxxers. Never had to live through polio, measles, or other diseases running rampant and wreaking havoc on the population so they don't have the perspective to immediately see the benefits that vaccines have afforded us.

    Edit: before anyone points it out, yes I'm aware there was a pandemic a few years back and anti-vaxxers were coming out of the woodwork. But by that point there were politically manufactured anti-science movements with troublingly eugenicist undertones in full force. COVID was most lethal towards the sick and elderly, which a lot of conservatives wrote off as "acceptable losses," measles and polio affected children who were otherwise healthy.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    I'm so happy I turned 24 last month, my boyfriend wouldnt take it well

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    [–] 118 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's one way to interpret the fact that the past generations have spent billions promoting and normalizing homophobic views for decades, tailored specifically to young males.

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    We can reasonably correlate this with the rise in racism and the wideninig wealth gap. The usual simple solution, blame anyone different.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Except the billionaires. Don't blame them. They really really truly rooly care about each and every one of us, which is why they pay politicians to help them.

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I mean, that's wild because the 80s and 90s were pretty homophobic too. So even worse than then? Just great...

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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    There was progress for a few years from 2005-2015.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Knows as the Fabulous decade.

    There certainly should be a lag there, from the influences and efforts to the result, from teenagers growing under that to then becoming adults, and from what I see everything rooted in the 90s got it's lamplight in the 00s and 10s with more acceptance, while the reactive bigotry of 10s gets realized in 2020s. And the lag is getting shorter because our attention span and effectiveness of social media does too.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I'm sorry guys I missed the deadline by 2 months I'm homophobic now

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    these generalizations are always annoying. it suggests in some group homophobia went away and is not coming back. its a thing like racism that is always going to be present to some degree or another. I deally we get to a point where there is little to none. The real problem is things like censorship and making things not allowed to be discussed in schools or such.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    For fuck sake, so long as they're consenting adults, who *cares *who people love?! Jesus, some people like to stick their nose into nosephobic group meetings!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen this plot enough times to know anyone who is a homophobe is just suppressing their own gay desires.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Sadly, this will reflect (political) swings to the extreme right. Currently an American finding, but I suspect similar here in the UK with Farage and friends having a popularity bloom.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    where this can come from ? i though we had cancel anybody that didnt praise the lgbtqia2+ movement

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    So you bought into the right wing propaganda and believed a lie?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    what propaganda ? the experience of you treating ppl that doesnt alllign at 100% with your wolrdview ?

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