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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is heartbreaking & infuriating. Trump's hate infects the next generation...
We can only hope they wake up when they're older & away from their brainwashing parents.
Link to tweet
At Trump's rally last night, these little girls said that we need to build a wall because the "Mexicans are overpopulating us".
Hate is learned. Adults taught them to hate and fear people who don't look like them. Tragic.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)All the young people who realize he's a racist and a liar for what he's doing to minorities and women and children. There will be generations of children who oppose trump and the gop forever.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)They are learning from the best
Initech
(100,104 posts)It was not who we expected. It wasn't old racist uncles. It was the sons and daughters of old racist uncles. People who are 18 - 22 that are easily impressionable. These are the Trump voters we need to worry about. Because they're just old enough to vote. And white supremacist hate groups are recruiting on college campuses like there's no tomorrow. When this generation is old enough to run for office...
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,927 posts)A couple of my friends are high school teachers and were horrified when they had students referring to themselves as Generation Zyklon. These were Juniors and Seniors in 2 separate high schools, one in Michigan and one in Wisconsin. And according to both, it wasn't just 1 or 2 outsider kids either, it was a sizable groups of otherwise normal kids. In both cases the school administration got involved, I do not know what the results were though. Both blame the internet, as that where the term originates.
Initech
(100,104 posts)I feel like something went horribly wrong in the last few years that we have a generation that now thinks Nazism is cute and funny when it really isn't. This is fucking scary.
thucythucy
(8,087 posts)kimbutgar
(21,210 posts)I wonder if their parents are brother/ sister or cousin /cousin parents or Father/daughter.