• Hyper_red [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        5 days ago

        Genz and Gen Alpha men are often very very very far right with many being fucking neo nazis and groypers who HATE gay people, women, trans people, etc. This isn’t a yank thing only, I live in Ireland and they’re like that here too.

        I think the manosphere and shit plus the imminent demise of neoliberal capitalism and the collapse of western dominance has combined to make these young men incredibly reactionary

        • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          It seems more like younger gen z fits that description while older gen z is more “woke.” It’s spread from US social media and the obsessive use that the youth have. I say this all the time but it’s no coincidence they all have the same talking points as people like Charlie Kirk and hate the same people.

          Those generations are more left-wing in my country but the political climate here is very different from the rest of the West. Even then they still don’t like lgbt. It was just that much worse with previous generations.

          • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            I think we’re seeing a polar reversal of the old conventional wisdom that people get more conservative as they get older. Now, it’s the teens and early 20-somethings that fall into the manosphere/trad wife content hole as it provides them with this vision of being alpha/sigma, not cringe. Just follow this recipe and chad status is guaranteed. But then they reach adulthood and the reality of low wages, high housing costs, economic stagnation, plus it becomes more and more apparent that that manosphere crap is only impressive to children, and they start sliding leftward in their politics.