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High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo to c/politics

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While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a "matriarchy." However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

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[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

lol what are you smoking? Recess hasn't gone anywhere lmao. In fact, I fucking wish I had as cool of a playground for recess as my nephew does when I was a kid. Shit's fancy as fuck, all kinds of monkey bars, rock walls, a puke-a-tron that puts the merry-go-rounds of old to shame, etc... Mind you, he goes to school in a super liberal school district of an already very liberal state. The park district playgrounds have gotten way cooler too, one of the playgrounds at my local park has a fucking zipline now.

The fact that fucking recess is the best you could come up with, and it's just blatantly not even fucking true, says it all.

Also, girls like outdoor recess too, MORE so than boys, actually, in my experience. What a weird thing to gender.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's almost like he'd been told the opinion he was supposed to hold and then had to frantically explain why when someone finally asked him.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Relevant username.

Not everything is a conspiracy. Go outside please.

[–] circularfish 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please keep it positive (both comments above). Against my better judgment I got involved in this discussion so now it would be wrong to start swinging the mod hammer, but please let's remember this is the nice Lemmy instance. We need to keep the personal comments out of the ... comments.

We're here to discuss tough issues in good faith and learn something. Hopefully. Possibly. Maybe on Tuesday.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Right, sorry. I actually did forget which instance I was on.

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