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i feel like a lot of these kids will probably be pro capitalism and staunchly anticommunism until they reach adulthood and enter the workforce, IE, reality. lots of the media gen alpha has access to is right wing slop that gets spoonfed to them by an algorithm and it's definitely fucking them up for now, but as we know, millennials are all broke as fuck so most of these kids will be growing up poor. they likely wont have any opportunity once they reach adulthood both because of that and because capitalism has failed so hard that even millennials and gen z currently have no opportunity and look what that did to all of us.
I know a white male coworker with a skilled full-time blue collar job who is on the edge of homelessness (living in a van) who managed to say like twenty rightwing clichés to me within minutes of first meeting him. I am white but whiteness is a hell of a drug.
what's this dude's story if he's a skilled tradesman while living in a van? or do you not know him well enough to say? i do agree that whiteness is a hell of a drug, that's another aspect that should be considered for sure. especially in white supremacist amerikkka where the idea is to make the lowest white guy feel superior to the highest person of color just by virtue of being white
Not having a union / being relatively young (30 or less) / his dad has some kind of small construction company that he intends to work for soon. He also grew up in Florida and strongly hinted that he moved to our extremely white northeastern state because it’s much less racially diverse. I just started this (my first blue collar job) a few months ago and I already have hundreds of pages of stories like this in a journal / book I intend to publish sooner or later.