This is an opinion article in The New York Times:

Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons.
Parents need to understand how white supremacists prey on teen boys, so they can intervene.

I want to curb the expansion of white supremacists and white nationalists in America as much as anybody.

The problem is that The New York Times, and opinions like this, are not curbing that expansion, but adding to it.

Raising teenagers can be terrifying. Our squishy little babies become awkward hormonal creatures who question our authority at every turn.

I expected that. What I didn’t predict was that my sons’ adolescence would include being drawn to the kind of online content that right-wing extremists use to recruit so many young men.

The first rule that needs to be understood is that extremism begets extremism.

The intensity of the rebellion is proportional to the intensity of the oppression.  I know this sounds sexist, but the stereotype of the goody-two-shoes Catholic School girl who was totally repressed in high school but becomes the town bike in college exists for a reason.  Coming from a small, Episcopalian private school myself, I’ve seen it with my own eyes.

If you are worried that your sons are going to be suckered into Right-wing extremism, that is a sign that you have been pushing Left-wing extremism on them.

The first sign was a seemingly innocuous word, used lightheartedly: “triggered.”

As my 11- and 14-year-old sons and their friends talked and bantered — phones in hand, as always — in the back seat of the car, one of them shouted it in response to a meme, and they all laughed uproariously.

I almost lost control of the car. That’s because I know that word — often used to mock people who are hurt or offended by racism as overly sensitive — is a calling card of the alt-right, which the Anti-Defamation League defines as “a segment of the white supremacist movement consisting of a loose network of racists and anti-Semites who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy.” People associated with this group are known for trolling those who disagree with them, and calling critics “triggered” is a favorite tactic.

So mom got triggered at hearing her sons joke about people getting triggered.  That seems like prima facie evidence that she is part of the problem.

It’s not just the alt-right who mock the idea of triggering.  It’s many people who mock the idea of engineered hypersensitivity.

The New Yorker covered how triggering and trigger warnings made is impossible for law school professors to teach rape law, going so far as to say that the word “violate” was triggering and should be avoided.  That is a serious problem that will damage young lawyers and hurt their clients.

At a time when the F.B.I. reports a 17 percent rise in hate crime incidents from 2016 to 2017, the most recent year for which there is data, white parents like me have had recent, terrifying reminders that we must prevent our sons from becoming indoctrinated by a growing racist movement that thrives online and causes real-life devastation.

In August, a young white man who admitted to targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart. In New Zealand, 51 people were killed when a gunman attacked mosques filled with worshipers observing Friday prayers. In the past year, a total of 12 worshipers were killed in the U.S. in two hate-motivated attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and San Diego.

In each of these cases, the killers were white men with a history of extremism. The San Diego gunman, for instance, left a manifesto on 8chan also claiming responsibility for a mosque fire. And the San Diego and New Zealand gunmen posted hate-filled online manifestoes that included internet-culture references, such as references to memes and a notorious shout-out to a noteworthy YouTube personality. Both of them mentioned or alluded to the “white genocide” — which the Anti-Defamation League defines as the white-supremacist belief that the white race is “dying” because of growing nonwhite populations and “forced assimilation.”

When I said that the Left was the alt-right and white supremacist’s best recruiting tool, I meant it.

Yes, the idea of “white genocide” is a conspiracy.

But it doesn’t help when a well-known professor from Drexel Tweeted out “all I want for Christmas is white genocide” and only after much backlash, placed him on leave.

This is not a lone example.   A popular SUNY professor wrote an OpEd that seeing homeless white people made him happy because he enjoyed seeing white people suffer.

The New York Times is publishing this OpEd.  That is the same New York Times that hired Sarah Jeong to their editorial board despite a history of anti-white racist Tweets.

White supremacists don’t need to create much out of whole cloth, they just need to take what the intersectional Left says and embellish it a little bit.

Unfortunately, extremists know how to find new recruits in the very place our sons spend so much of their time: online. And too often, they’re more aware than we are of how vulnerable young white men are to radicalization.

According to Jackson Katz, author of “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help,” it’s not necessarily the ideology behind white nationalism, anti-feminism or the alt-right that initially appeals to young white men and boys as much as it is the sense of being part of a “heroic struggle.”

Participating in the alt-right community online “offers the seductive feeling of being part of a brotherhood, which in turn validates their manhood,” Dr. Katz says. YouTubers and participants in chat forums like 4chan, the defunct 8chan and Discord “regularly denigrate liberal or progressive white men as soft, emasculated ‘soy boys’ and insufficiently aggressive or right-wing white men as ‘cucks.’”

Harvard, the kingmaker of academic institutions, published a paper titled “Abolish the White Race.”

I can’t think of a more heroic struggle than to stand up against genocide being advocated for by the most elite of the elite.

Harvard is giving the 8chan community ammunition and justification.

It also seems to me, as a mom, that these groups prey upon the natural awkwardness of adolescence. Many kids feel out of place, frustrated and misunderstood, and are vulnerable to the idea that someone else is responsible for their discontent. When they’re white and male, they’re spoon-fed a list of scapegoats: people of color, feminists, immigrants, L.G.B.T.Q. people. If they really embrace this, it’s not hard to convince them that there’s a “white genocide” happening and that these people — and the “leftists” who represent their interests — are to blame.

Maybe this mom should ask her sons how they feel knowing that there is a professor who has gained fame and fortune for writing a best selling book about how white people are emotionally fragile and closed-minded.

“The problem with white people,” she says, “is that they just don’t listen. In my experience, day in and day out, most white people are absolutely not receptive to finding out their impact on other people. There is a refusal to know or see, or to listen or hear, or to validate.”

DiAngelo says she encounters a lot of “certitude from white people – they insist ‘Well, it’s not me’, or say ‘I’m doing my best, what do you want from me?’ ”. She defines this as white fragility – the inability of white people to tolerate racial stress.

As I gather, white fragility is the desire of white people not to submit to a struggle session because progressives want to collectively punish them for their skin color.

Perhaps white teenage boys being told that they are racist because they are white, toxic because they are male, and fragile if they don’t want to accept that abuse are going to find an alternative viewpoint to glom onto, and the opposite of anti-white progressivism is white supremacism.

So what can parents do? First, we need to understand how this works.

A favorite activity for many boys is to watch gamers playing video games on YouTube. According to John Duffy, author of “Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety,” the problems come with advertisements that may appear during the videos. Kids can be exposed to dozens of ads in a sitting. They might hear about the border, or “Crooked Hillary” or a conspiracy theory on how the left works, Dr. Duffy said. Many of these spots are created and promoted by organizations like PragerU, which, Dr. Duffy notes, is not an accredited university but a propaganda machine that introduces viewers to extremist views via video. And YouTube’s recommendation algorithm offers videos that become more and more extreme as viewers watch them.

Fuckin’ Jeeubz…

Prager U has never claimed to be an accredited university.  It is a YouTube channel created by Dennis Prager.  The Jewish conservative talk show host and author.

Dennis Prager is about as anodyne as conservativism can get and still be conservative.  Most of his videos are lessons in classical conservative and family values and history showing the positives of America.

When Prager U is denounced as propaganda that opens the door to white supremacism, you know the author is far, far Left.

They may also find videos by more mainstream figures, including members of the so-called intellectual dark web like Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, whose conservative perspectives on feminism and gender are very popular among young men and often are a path to more extreme content and ideologies.

Jordan Peterson, the Canadian classical liberal who wrote a self-help book for young men.

I guarantee this mom could hear “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” coming from her son’s computer and think he’s watching a Hitler video.

Maybe the reason this woman’s sons want to watch Jordan Peterson is that they have seen the video of the Oak Park city trustee at a city council meeting yelling at white men to “shut up” telling them they are not allowed to have opinions.

Inevitably, kids who have encountered these messages will mimic extremist talking points, and those of us who find these views repulsive may be tempted to yell at them, ground them or take away their devices in a futile attempt to keep them away from this propaganda.

The problem is, punitive responses often create a sense of shame that can feed a growing sense of anger — an anger the alt-right is eager to exploit.

What really hooks many white teenagers is the alt-right’s insistence that white men are under attack in America, the true victims of oppression. If your child has already been punished for his opinions, this message is especially resonant. They find a home for their rage, a brotherhood of guys like them, and that oh-so-alluring heroic struggle — and that’s how an extremist is born.

I wonder if this mom goes to the Yoga studio that teaches “undoing whiteness.”

Perhaps the reason the alt-right and white supremacists are so good at recruiting white boys with the message that “white men are under attack in America“ is that is the rhetoric that comes out of the Progressive Left?

Parents also need to encourage our sons how to think critically about the things they’re hearing online. One term I’ve debunked in this way for my kids is “snowflake.” An insult embraced by moderate conservatives and the alt-right alike, it’s used to dismiss people who complain about racism, sexism or homophobia as laughably delicate.

When one of my kids used it, I smiled and, in a conspiratorial tone, asked him to think about this: Who is more of a delicate snowflake? The person who wants people to stop racial slurs or mocking of gay people or the person who is upset and offended by the use of the phrase “Happy Holidays” — a common talking point during Fox News’s infamous War on Christmas segments?

Ah yes “Republicans are the real snowflakes” is a great way to stop your kid from using that term.

Parents of white kids need to talk about race and racism and how they’ve played out in this country — a lot. That history includes horrors and tragedies, but as Dr. Tochluk says, it also “includes the fact that there have always been groups of white people in the United States who have fought for freedom and liberty for all.”

“In our choices and actions,” she says, “white people can align ourselves with that lineage.”

No, they fucking don’t.  Making white kids think about race all the time, then making them feel guilty because of their race and the horrors committed by other white people in the past is part of the problem.

Dr. Katz suggested, “To counteract the seductiveness of that appeal from the right, we need to offer them a better definition of strength: that true strength resides in respecting and lifting up others, not seeking to dominate them.”

“Strength through groveling and self-abasement.”

I’m working hard to instill these values in my kids. But keeping them away from the radical right is a continuing project for me and should be for any parent. I have confidence that they’re more equipped than they were a year ago to detect and reject hateful messages, but in the meantime, every time they laugh at a so-called edgy meme, I’m going to make it my mission to find out what’s so funny.

Woke scold mom has to woke scold.

I’ve adopted enough absed dogs to know this.  When a dog is abused one of two things happens to it.  It becomes a coward, scared of every human, crawling on its belly, or it becomes vicious and attacks every person it sees.

The Intersectional Woke-Left’s, well documented, constant attack of white people and masculinity is nothing short of emotional abuse.

The white males who receive it either become obsequious cowards or as they are known in the Intersectional community, “allies.”  Or they become vicious and turn into white supremacists.

The rise of the white supremacist alt-right parallels the rise of the Intersectional Woke-Left perfectly.  This new white supremacism is the backlash to the rise of the anti-white racist academic/pseudointellectual progressive Left.

If the Left was really interested in fighting the alt-right and white supremacism, they would tell the radicals in their midsts to “shut the fuck up.”

Because every time some six-figure salary professor goes on MSNBC to explain how white people are privileged and need to “unpack their knapsack” and pay reparations, some young white man who grew up in poverty in a dead rust-belt town, where the jobs disappeared when the factory was outsourced to China and has never known anything but watching a family desperately try – and fail – to make ends meet, joins the alt-right.