Parents beware! Monitor what your kids are doing.
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/08/1...t-stop-them-2/
It’s time, parents of white boys, for The Talk.
Because those seeds of white supremacy, of racism and hatred, are being planted in our teenage sons right in our own homes.
More people have been killed in America by white right-wing extremists since the 9/11 attacks than by Islamic terrorists.
“Oh, but we’re not racist!” you say.
“Our family is color-blind!” you say.
“Our son would never . . . ” you say.
That’s what a lot of parents said before their kids got sucked into dark, online worlds filled with people who seemed to understand them, who validated their fears and understood their insecurities.
When her son wore a Nazi iron cross to school and counselors called her about it, one Virginia mother explained away his fashion choice and their worry that he was flirting with extremism.
“That’s just ridiculous,” the mother recalled saying in a March 2018 interview with The Washington Post. “He’s just obsessed with reading about history.”
Later she found out that her son had a vibrant neo-Nazi life on Twitter, complete with shout-outs to Hitler and loyalty to the Atomwaffen Division, a paramilitary neo-Nazi group whose members have been linked to a handful of killings and who considered Charles Manson a hero. But she didn’t make that discovery until he shot himself in the head after allegedly killing his girlfriend’s parents, Scott Fricker and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, in 2017.
He is awaiting trial for the killings, and we’re not identifying him or his mom because he’s charged as a juvenile. But the message is clear. His mom said he was a withdrawn boy who struggled with finding his place in the cruel world of teen social politics. And it was the wrong place.