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The Internet is full of.... Well.... Everyone! So yes, it's packed with right wingers but also left
wingers and everyone in between. So you're right but the counter claim would also be right. |
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Some of these schoolboys actually end up becoming meddlesome left-wing activists when they go to
university, joining extremist student unions, organizing pointless protests and idealizing Che
Guevara. Teenagers are often more likely to hold radical, partisan views, but I suspect that many of
them will become more nuanced as they become older and a bit more jaded. They will perhaps stop
seeing the world in black and white.
I think that many young boys (and probably girls as well) will replicate what their father thinks in
terms of political or social issues and will simply appropriate these views, until they start
questioning them and formulating their own thoughts. This is why you will often see 12 and 13 year
olds engaging in political debates online and expressing very strong opinions that they simply could
not have formulated for themselves, due to their young age. I remember that back in high school, a
girl who was three years my junior gave me a sermon on how she felt ashamed to be an American,
because of Bill Clinton's Lewinsky affair. There is no way that at age 14 she could have been so
morally disturbed by the adulterous president on her own--she likely heard this same line from her
parents and adopted it. |
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On television once I saw this little kid - he was about 5 or 6, egged on by his father - playing an
electric guitar. He had obviously mastered the technique. He was able to churn out all the heavy
metal guitar cliches. Despite this, he obviously had no deep musical understanding or creative
capacity. His playing was purely imitative.
Some of these right wing kiddies remind me of him. In a way, they're quite impressive. They can trot
out all the usual cliches. They know the usual retorts to the usual objections, having read
undemanding right-wing texts and mastered them, and absorbed the ideas through television and radio
productions. Beyond impressive, though, it's also a bit scary, when you think how stunted the
child's life must have been to have attained that level of technical mastery so young, with all the
other things that must have been sacrificed. And when you see how mindlessly the tropes and
arguments are trotted out, it almost makes you despair of the future. Someone has abused these
children to turn them into robots. |
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Sounding awfully like a politician, Old Boy
I am sure politician would like the rest of us to shut up once the voting is over. |
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I can't help but think that this is just a little off the mark. |
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Wow congratulations if you're a right wing school boy then everything you just stated is true. You
provide no evidence of why your statement is true you just state that it is. |
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30 Jul 2008 12:15
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