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🗓️ 23 February 2018
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0:00.0 | which means they're taken seriously by the media in a way someone like Erica Garner is not taken seriously right |
0:06.0 | yeah which i mean it's it's yeah that's obviously a fundamental hypocrisy in society but otherwise |
0:11.3 | i mean i i think we should encourage this kind of activism from high school students |
0:16.5 | well i think we should absolutely but also you know that the whole from the mouths of babes thing is |
0:23.1 | is flawed because also young people can be reactionary of course and and two like |
0:28.8 | they can't just be mascots they are kids you know like they they do need the support of a larger |
0:35.2 | or multi-generational community of activists this whole idea that we're gonna have like this like |
0:41.5 | you know 17 to 22 year old vanguard is like first of all we've tried that many times second of |
0:48.1 | all it doesn't work and third of all it hangs them out to dry it's really unfair to them and a |
0:52.0 | thing about like i've seen this like since well before the the kids now with this shooting |
0:58.4 | just the general take like oh you won't believe how lefty you know gen z is they're gonna save us |
1:04.4 | they're gonna save us by the way has been the refrain of the left for about 50 fucking years |
1:10.2 | and not just young people they're like oh demographics is destiny like as soon as as we got that thing |
1:15.6 | too that thing so fucking stupid because now like they they now believe the idea fully of |
1:22.0 | racist biology yeah they don't get that you can just extend whiteness to ever to maintain some |
1:26.6 | sort of reactionary order but which we have sense is that it to prove is happening right but with |
1:32.6 | with the kids it's like first of all just those polls on kids are difficult for a lot of that |
1:38.2 | can kind of metric reasons they're literally dying of tide poisoning while they're being poll but |
1:44.0 | but but also like you can't really judge them on like a complete left right continuum kids have |
1:49.6 | confused politics because they're not fully formed yet the kids now are influenced like i've |
1:54.4 | said it before they're influenced by Jordan Peterson Joe Rogan extantossing on little pump |
2:01.2 | and like minecraft you don't know where they're at their reactionary to some things they're like |
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