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High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)
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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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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

And honestly, 'conservative' shouldn't be a bad word either. But it's been morphed into this fascist hate machine, and it's hard to see what you've become when you're on the inside.

It's not like Democrats are screaming to tear down the Walmarts and Dollar Generals, and bring back local businesses and repairable products. Neither side is all that great, it's just that one is teetering on genocidal. I'm not saying don't vote democrat, because you absolutely have to if you want to head off what's coming. But we need to start looking at this problem more holistically, if we don't just want to perpetuate it in future generations.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And honestly, ‘conservative’ shouldn’t be a bad word either. But it’s been morphed into this fascist hate machine

    The term “fundamentalist” was coined because “conservative” was a bad word, and that was over a century ago. Conservative hate is nothing new.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Source? I never heard fundamentalism was coined as an alternative to saying conservative. Fundamentalism could be described as conservative but I don't think the 1920s fundamentalists were trying to avoid that in any way.

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