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Young Restless and Red Pilt, September 13, 2023.

You're Gavin.

Thanks very much for contacting me.

I am glad that Dawson encouraged you to do that.

Dawson is a great kid, the best of relatives.

From what you wrote and from what Dawson told me, you were struggling with how you were

supposed to understand your quote-unquote whiteness.

You grew up in the public school system, which inculcated in you, a deep-loathing of your

supposed heritage, against which you red-pilled hard in your second year of college.

Your parents divorced when you were in second grade, and see a group with your mom, with

your father being always friendly but somewhat distant.

You did a stint in the proud boys, but that got old after about six months, leaving you

feeling emptier than before.

The same time, you were resolved to never go back to the self-loathing you grew up with.

Do I have all that right?

Dawson tells me that you are Christian, but that you think the church you periodically

attend is pretty lame.

He said that you told him that sermons are TED talks with a handful of limply-applied

Bible verses.

On top of that, you are increasingly hearing things from the pulpit that remind you of

all that woke stuff you learned from the purple-haired lady in junior high school.

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