• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    There's going to be some variations and outliers in a population of 70 million people.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Oh, definitely. I suppose it was just a surprise to see how toxic GenZ incel culture got. I figured that they'd learn from Millenials that it's a dead end.

      It feels like for GenX and Millenials, incel culture and alt-right culture kind of appeared in a vacuum to the surprise of boomers, who didn't really understand the weird doomer irony poisoning. Someone could get exposed to men's rights and pick up artist entrypoints, but not see the 'sjw' side of the equation until they started brigading them and already had ideological blinders on.

      At this point it's almost impossible to interact online without running into feminist culture and talking points, so the reaction of GenZers is now to encounter those talking points as a teenager, actively reject them because it makes them feel bad, and then get drawn into alt-right/incel entrypoints. So while Millenials and up seem to fall more into centrist grillpillism and buy-in to basic neolib rhetoric, GenZ seems to be more pushing itself to the extremes of leftism and fascism.