- cross-posted to:
- mensliberation@lemmy.ca
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
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.
Relevant username.
Not everything is a conspiracy. Go outside please.
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.
Right, sorry. I actually did forget which instance I was on.
Except the conspiracy to rob boys of recess right?
Not a conspiracy, just a natural outcome of anti-male attitudes in primary education.
“It’s not a conspiracy when I do it”.
…yes. By definition.