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scheme so it stands to reason that the deer prudence column is full of similarly geared
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okay so the first entry is literally entitled i'm afraid my teenage sons headed down an alt-right
rabbit hole oh wow let's read shall we my son 15 is taking the first steps down the alt-right
rabbit hole and i don't know how to stop him he wants to join a group at his school billing itself
as the james madison society they mostly seem to be styling themselves as free speech advocates
and rail about supposed examples of cancel culture on campus i'm old enough to know that free speech
advocate is simply a cover for alt right hate speech and that cancel culture does not exist
okay i hate to use this rather cliched expression but someone has really been drinking the kool-aid
cancer culture does exist there is no such thing as a cult accountability culture that's
just the excuse that left us used for ruining people's lives because they don't like something
a person has said often a number of years ago i guarantee you if this mother somehow ended
up on the receiving end of cancel culture because someone uncovered something she may
have tweeted ages ago that would now be considered problematic in lefty land she'd believe it exists
let's continue and naming a group after a hypocritical slave owner is simply disgusting
i've categorically forbidden evan from joining this cult initiation group or from participating
in whatever activities they do but i can't be there in his school to watch over him
and my call to his school administration had one of their people saying they wouldn't keep him
from joining a valid student organization cult initiation group i bet if her son joined some
climate change activist organization on campus she wouldn't be calling it a cult initiation group
even though let's be real some of those climate action groups come across as very culty and lol
at the fact the school effectively said calm down lady it's just a student group i love that for
them about the most i can try to do is monitor his computer usage about the subject but he's a lot
more tech savvy than i am so i'm pretty sure he'll be able to circumvent anything i can come up with
what can i do to stop him from ruining the lives of himself and others with this
vileness ruining the lives of himself and others with this vileness she doesn't even seem to know
what kind of activities the group does and she's calling it vileness it is literally enough for her
it seems that her son is expressing some political views that she disagree with and automatically
that of course means he's a vile alt-right cult supremacist person what a terrible example
she is setting for her son i mean the lack of tolerance and empathy which wokies are constantly
congratulating themselves for possessing is uh pretty extraordinary so what did dear prudence
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here is dear prudence's reply dear stymied sadly this is becoming much more commonplace nowadays
and my heart goes out to you for having to witness this in your own home no you can't
be present at your son's school to monitor his behavior but you have 100 of the control in terms
of what happens in your house first you need to determine if this is a dangerous alt-right cult
or just a group of conservative kids sharing their opinions okay i cannot guarantee you it is just a
if it's the latter then i wouldn't be too concerned about it because differing opinions
are healthy and normal however if he's using this group to be a racist and a bigot then you need to
take drastic actions if i were you i take away every bit of access he has to the internet and
social media until he agrees to meet with a therapist regularly that means no cell phone
new video game consoles and no personal laptop unless it's used to do schoolwork what's the
bet his mother does that anyway to punish him for having the wrong political opinions i mean you've
got to remember these kinds of wokies genuinely believe that anything right-leaning is racism
and bigotry the mother admitted that herself at the start she said she's old enough to know that
apparently the free speech advocate is simply a cover for alt-right hate speech she has no chill
about this at all once he's in therapy he has to agree to take it seriously in doing so hopefully
he'll realize that joining these fringe groups based on hate and fear isn't going to help him in
the long run the problem that isn't addressed is what you'll do about the other kids in his school
who are influencing you with the same beliefs depending on how serious you are about saving your
son and i'm assuming you're very serious since you sent me this letter you may need to consider
pulling him from that school and placing him elsewhere granted that's the nuclear option but it
could serve to be an effective last resort if his school refuses to shut down a potential hate group
on its campus only it's not a potential hate group if it were a hate group the school would have shut
it down the minute the mother called them you know what most teachers are like they're super
left wing i am surprised they're even allowing the kids to have a conservative styled group at
all i mean that should reveal to you how banal this group probably is fighting against this type
of ignorance isn't easy and it's going to require you to take some pretty drastic measures to do it
i know you're built for it because nothing should be more important than keeping your precious son
safe oh wow clearly this mother is a very distressed deluded human being who doesn't
consume any kind of media or information other than what is presented to her at outlets like cnn
and the new york times that poor poor kid is all i can say and prudence do better in the
advice front that was just ridiculous okay so the second entry in dear prudence is entitled
help i faked having covert twice oh my gosh now before we go any further some of you might be
thinking hey daisy how do you know this is a wokie can't it conservatives fake having covered two
to which i would reply the signage on the question is at least i'm not a covert denier that's a worki
we know that's a worki no conservative would say that that's lefty language you know it i know it
prudence knows it here we go i lied about a really stupid thing and now i don't know how to fix it
when covert first hit obviously my friends and family were all scared some of us had underlying
conditions that made it extra scary so we were all ready to obey the rules wear masks stay home etc
see definitely a wokie but a lot of my friends got sick anyway nobody died thank goodness and
while a couple were really sick they're better now my problem and the stupid thing i did is that i
lied and said i had covered two i don't know why i did i'm not usually a liar but when i kept seeing
messages about kari has it michael has it and so do his kids and all the support and love they got
i just one they said i had it too and i posted selfies of myself looking sick
and pictures of when i got better oh my gosh oh my gosh see i knew this would happen when covert
became like a massive moral status thing i have covered i survived curve and hashtag where i'm at
hashtag stay home etc of course people were going to start faking having code for clout
particularly when everyone was forced to communicate pretty much solely via the internet
it's very easy to fake things on the internet i wouldn't be surprised if more people than we think
who said they've had covert actually didn't have covered and were faking it for the insta likes
sheesh but it gets even worse once i was better i missed the attention so i said i had covered again
and this time i gave myself long covert and i've been sick for months i finally met up
with some friends in person last week and it hit me just what a nasty and stupid thing i did
no [ __ ] sherlock for some reason it didn't seem real when it was just on social media and zoom but
now i have to face my friends again and i don't know what to do confess and have them know what
a dumb thing i did or just get better fast i was faking symptoms of long cover during our in-person
get-together and keep this secret okay this person i'm guessing has some much deeper psychological
issues to address that they feel they have to literally fake covert because they were jealous
of all the love and attention people who were actually sick were getting i don't know perhaps it
is abandonment issues or low self-esteem or just classic immaturity but either way this person has
some problems so what did dear prudence think fake speedy recovery are you kidding me no absolutely
not you need to make like daniel day-lewis and retire from acting right now you must tell your
friends in person about what you've done i don't know how that's going to go but you have to do it
you must take responsibility for lying without offering excuses for yourself if i were you i
would also get to work on a plan to dig into this compulsion to lie with a trained professional if
possible your apology will seem more sincere and you will end up in a better place personally if
you go in with a solution what a caper needless to say this time i agree with dear prudence well
there you have it everyone two of the freshest capers shall we save from slate magazines very
interesting and often very woke advice column dear prudence let me know if you like this kind
of content because if you like it i will make more of it it is uh fairly fascinating to say the least
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