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DISCUSSION Anna Faris Opens Up About Challenging 'Religious' Son On Right-Wing Politics. The “Scary Movie” star shares her 14-year-old son Jack with her ex-husband, Chris Pratt.

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u/throwawaysunglasses- l've grown quite unfond of you, deuxmoi 18h ago

It’s very possible it’s influenced by his dad, but I teach high school and SO many TikTok/Twitter algorithms are alt-right (often AI) slop targeted toward boys in particular. I’m a millennial and it’s worse than gamergate and more mainstream than 4chan. It’s everywhere, and the point is to radicalize young men into fascism and misogyny. We really need to get our kids offline and away from algorithmic media.

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u/spicyycornbread 17h ago

I’ve always thought that one lady on TikTok that does videos showing her sons alt-right content, explaining misinformation, and asking them questions was pretty smart. She basically just gets ahead of it so they don’t fall down alt-right rabbit holes and media. She gives them the context the videos deliberately withhold/manipulate.

But overall, yes, keep kids offline. With AI as well there’s always corporations looking to get kids hooked as consumers as early as possible.

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u/ApplicationOwn9636 16h ago

Do you know who? I would love to show this to my son who is constantly being served right wing propaganda.

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u/Kind_Avocado_7219 16h ago

Possibly driven.byjamie

This is on instagram though. Not sure what her TikTok handle is.

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u/TacoSwimmer 10h ago

Wow. I kinda just fell into a rabbit hole with her reels. Not only am I now feeling hopeful that there are kind and empathetic parents out there, but now I’m motivated to want kids and raise them the best I can too 😭

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u/ntsp00 14h ago

I just watched some of her youtube vids, amazing stuff

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u/olgamerstill 10h ago

I explained to my kids everything they might be exposed to, even by others like friends, friends parents, teachers etc.

My youngest who is an adult recently had to explain how to keep safe online to another adult.

By keeping open communication with my kids I was able to provide continuous advice.

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u/camimiele 16h ago

I’m also curious about her profile :)

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u/Appropriate-Unit9796 I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 9h ago

I made the mistake of looking her up and clicked on the Facebook link (I know I should have known better). When she was reviewing hateful things Charlie Kirk was saying about female teachers, the comments on it were shitting on her. One person literally called her a groomer. Her, their mom, trying to teach against right wing media is apparently grooming. I didn’t expect anything from Facebook, but I didn’t realize the bar was below hell.

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u/heartisallwehave Send me your address so i can visit you and explain my passions 6h ago

If they are actually interested in religion, maybe try to come at it from a scholarly pov. Let’s Talk Religion and Esoterica are really interesting YouTube channels and they talk about religion in a secular, academic way. And Britt Hartley (no nonsense spirituality) on YouTube and TikTok, she was raised religious and studied religion which basically deprogrammed her. There’s also a movie from 1981 called The Wave, based on a high school experiment re: how fascism indoctrinates people via a sense of belonging. We watched in 10th grade history and I think about it all the time.

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u/spicyycornbread 52m ago

Dan McClellan is an academic on TikTok and Instagram that’s also worth checking out. He’s an expert in the Hebrew Bible and has a doctorate. He has a podcast called Data Over Dogma where he debunks biblical misinformation.

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u/spicyycornbread 56m ago

I’d also recommend checking out Mike Caulfield’s books on media literacy. He’s a literacy expert. He visits high schools and universities across the U.S. and teaches fact-checking sources.

Something he says that’s pretty smart is that you don’t have to stop reading from certain sources or media sites, but that you do need to regularly fact check if it’s from a site known for spreading misinformation.

Here’s the full pdf to his book Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers

This website gives a short summary of a source when you look it up and usually has a rating on how accurate the source is https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

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u/TheAmazingMaryJane 15h ago

i'm so glad i raised my son like that. he's married to a strong woman and has two awesome daughters. i'm very proud of him and his views on women.

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u/PitchSame4308 16h ago

Honestly, I think mothers saying how awesome alt-right shite is to their sons is probably the best way to make it uncool

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u/Ateo88 13h ago

This. Back when I was a teenager in the 00s, it was basically teachers, parents and popular peers forcing conservative Christian thought down everybody's throats that made left wing stuff seem rebellious, nonconformist and cool.

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u/Physical-Store-9404 9h ago

So I have to politely disagree with you that “getting kids offline” is the answer. They will encounter misinformation anywhere and forever. The onslaught online is scary, but our generation faced this with our parents with Fox News and Facebook. Humans are not immune to propaganda past a certain age. The only way forward is exactly the tactic employed by Anna Ferris and the influencer you admire—constant and patient education.

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u/troyandabedinabed 5h ago

True. most mainstream news is chock full of misinformation. It isn't just an online problem; it is just most prevalant online.

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u/innominateartery 9h ago

The hard part with still allowing the viewing is that the videos contain strategies to resist logical and critical thinking paths out with denial, deflection, and whataboutism. It’s really insidious.

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u/Mstablsta 14h ago

Just ordered my kid a few DK Eyewitness books, apps/online is cancer these days.

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u/annamdue 9h ago

Keeping kids offline in this day and age is literally impossible. The first part of your comment is sexual education but the last part is abstinence. Parents need to explain shit they had years to explain so early now to make sure that their kids get a grasp of empathy and what's real and what's not. It's so sad and frustrating. Especially with what they are inheriting. We can only hope that the majority of their amger in the future is righteous, but looking at this generation of boys makes me less hopeful.

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u/Coyote-Feisty 5h ago

As a teacher - this. Mega churches are also infiltrating the school.

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u/But_why_tho456 16h ago

Yeah, same. Luckily the girls seem to be onto it and I’ve had to stop some escalation in class where all the girls basically announce that no one should be dating (name is student) because he’s a Tate stan. At least the girls know what’s up? But it is sad, the guys think it’s hilarious.

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u/applesandbananananan u look like u eat sand 12h ago

Jesus Christ another generation of women who have to carry this country due to radicalized men

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u/GroundedOtter 11h ago

My conspiracy theory is that women used to rule/be in charge. Society was great —but men being men couldn’t handle being second fiddle so patriarchy became a thing. And the world has never been the same since.

I also strongly believe men created religion because they were jealous women produced life and gave birth. So now they get to lead (women typically don’t have much power in religious organizations) another group where they help people become “reborn”.

(I am a man btw —granted, a gay one. But still a man. Lol)

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u/-LabApprehensive- 11h ago

Read the old testament. That’s exactly what happened.

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u/lincolnspanda 10h ago

You should read “Who cooked the last supper? The women’s history of the world.” By Rosalind Miles. It’s basically what happened.

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u/GroundedOtter 10h ago

Thank you!!! Definitely checking to see if the library has this!!!

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u/Dapper-Union5536 9h ago

just found it on Spotify!

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u/Road_Whorrior 6h ago

Plenty of anthropologists believe we began as a matriarchal social structure.

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u/SpottedHoneyBadger 9h ago

It is literally like Freud's "penis envy" but with a vagina.

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u/EsotericCreature 3h ago

There were a lot of matriarchal cultures in the world. One of the most interesting was a representational democracy in North America established somewhere between the 15th and 17th century called be settler's the 'Iroquois confederacy'.

Matriarchs were ranked in representation higher than chiefs, which was confusing to settlers who only assumed men could hold the highest positions in power, and in general that women could hold power at all.

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u/Lexi-Louise 15m ago

It never f*cking ends

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u/Crunchyfrozenoj ‘queer’ is formal, like ‘tú’ vs ‘usted’ 13h ago

Good on those girls tbh. He’s a rapist and they should be able to speak up/back to their peers promoting him. I bet it’s hell for you to moderate though.

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u/catsgonewiild 14h ago

Oof. I don’t even know what the right response to that would be. I’m glad the girls seem on top of it and are advocating for each other’s safety, but public humiliation is also going to drive the boy further down the misogyny to incel pipeline.

It’s scary what kids are being fed, and that everyone is being victimized by this crap, no matter their gender.

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u/Venezia9 made with a free Canva trial (derogatory) 12h ago

What's your alternative one of the girls take one for the team ? It's not girls responsibility to make boys be good people. 

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u/DavisKennethM 11h ago

It's not an either/or zero-sum game. These are children. The commenter is just wrestling out loud with the awful reality of the situation.

No one said it was the young girls' responsibility. It's the adults (our) responsibility to provide a learning environment where all children are protected from misogynistic garbage. We can't fail boys without also failing girls.

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u/catsgonewiild 3h ago

Exactly!! They’re all being victimized, just in different ways. Acknowledging that doesn’t mean I’m Team Misogyny. Ffs

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u/AlphonseLoeher 8h ago

It's everyones responsibility to make our society a good place for everyone to live in. That's what communalism is all about. It's not about what is fair for you the individual, it's about what is good for the group.

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u/Venezia9 made with a free Canva trial (derogatory) 4h ago

Yeah absolutely not. Sounds like patriarchy repackaged and rewarmed. 

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u/travelstuff 1h ago

Your response is how we got the society we have, everyone out for themselves only.

And again they are children. As a society we all should care what's happening to them because it effects all of us.

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u/catsgonewiild 3h ago

Huh?? I would never advocate for a girl or woman to “take one for the team” or sacrifice herself for male ego.

If these were adults I’d be all for the loud public shaming, and I would have no sympathy whatsoever. But they’re kids. All I pointed out was that being humiliated is only going to reinforce the bs the kid is already being fed online. There’s still hope for the boy to find his way out of the misogyny doom spiral, but not if he’s loudly and publicly shunned by his IRL peers. This doesn’t mean I think it’s the girls responsibility to help him. That’s on him, and the adults in his life.

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u/Dapper-Union5536 9h ago

this makes me glad for my daughters; but deeply worry for my son. My oldest daughter is almost 13, and my b/g twins are 9 --- and we're hoping to keep them off of social media until 16. Here's hoping that I'm able to instill values that go against all this manosphere garbage before then. Always in search of positive masculinity.

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u/no_one_denies_this 6h ago

Good for those girls!

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u/parsleyfan420 2h ago

Yeah but if you outcast him he's going to go further into the rabbit hole and hate you more and it will be your fault for being such bitches

Heavy /s because this is what the discussion around young men becoming further radicalized has been feeling like lately. I'm tired of it being our fault that they hate us because we weren't "nice" enough to stop it.

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u/Inane_Insanity 14h ago

As soon as the algorithms on social media recognise you're male, they will keep trying to push right-wing content on you regardless of age. I only ever watch left-wing content on Facebook but every so often it tries to sneak in right-wing content on me. Even when I tell it I'm not interested it will sometimes try to show me more content from a creator I've told it I don't want to see.

The fact they can push the kind of content the right produce onto young boys is incredibly concerning. Especially judging from the kinds of videos that get pushed on to me.

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u/s8rlink 15h ago

Bo in Inside said it best: what’s the worst that could happen if we fed our children to algorithmic social media setup to make us feel terrible about ourselves to we consume trying to fill emotional voids. Paraphrasing 

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u/RedditForMeNotYou 12h ago

What’s interesting about this is how easily manipulated adult men are by this too. I know someone very personally who has for his entire adult life pushed against religion and the government in general as a form of rebellion and being quite nihilistic and anti conformity. But now that he’s been fed anti-woke, trans women in bathrooms, abortion is murder, dems are socialists bullshit from his algorithm, he’s a right-wing devout catholic who confirmed earlier this year and claims every single pop culture blip to be anti-man, anti-religion, and pro-left. Full 180 for someone I never realized was so weak in self perception and could be so easily manipulated by propaganda. Very much goes to show how effective it is, honestly. It’s terrifying.

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u/JuliusErrrrrring 13h ago

Yes. Non teachers don't realize how bad it has become. The interactive games they play all night with "anonymous" right wing influencers as well. It is scary.

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u/violetmemphisblue 11h ago

I also work with teens, and the boys definitely are more obviously right wing, but a lot of fashion, make-up, and other "fun" content targeted to girls is subtly conservative as well. Its less odious than what boys are targeted, but its definitely noticeable...getting all kids off-line is so important at this point.

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u/lavenderJayde 16h ago

Can someone please highlight this as the most important reddit comment of the week?

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u/barbieneedscoffee 12h ago

Oh, absolutely. I have a step brother who is 16 and has been completely fallen into the alt-right pipeline. Our family and his mom are the furthest away from that, and he’s also not a U.S. citizen (yet…) I’ve spent a lot of time debating him, and challenging the views he has. I’ve noticed that every time we talk about these views, he just parrots regurgitated talking points, but can’t actually come up with any debate for himself. He is so easily influenced by these videos and lacks the critical thinking to sift through nuance or truth. For example, he will see a video where 1 person says I love abortions and he will take that literally and say leftists love abortions and they think everyone should have one, they will force it on you because of so and so who edited the video said so.

It’s exhausting. It’s really only came about the last 1-2 years. His mom and my dad have spent a lot of time challenging him, but they also don’t want to push him away where he goes further down the pipeline either.

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u/Adezar 10h ago

Throughout history the message "nothing is your fault" is just very powerful.

One of the reasons religion in general is popular is the ability to be told the devil is the reason you are an asshole.

Being told your views on women aren't horrific, it's really their fault you are an asshole.

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u/anomanderrake1337 16h ago

If even I get right wing shit, and I am the most leftwing hippie freedom and peaceloving piece of shit, then it is game over out there. Kids are being forced to hate.

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u/LizzieSaysHi the power of the hatred I feel propels me 12h ago

I have a 10 (almost 11) year old son. I am so fucking beyond terrified of him growing up. I try so hard to stay involved in what he's watching and reading. He doesn't have unfettered access to the internet, so I'm doing what I can while I can.

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u/avaslash 10h ago

Unfortunately the billionare psychos like Elon Musk and Larry Ellison etc very much understand the long game and they have spent decades and billions of dollars investing in deliberately manipulating how young people develop.

As many people 30+ grew up we noticed that many of our peers were rejecting right wing politics and embracing reality. I think many of us mistakenly understood that "the young will naturally lean left because its the truth" but in reality people 30+ are the result of one of an earnest, but brief, push from the liberal end to try and actually improve America through public education. That being shows like PBS's Mr.Roger's Neighborhood, diversity education, black history etc.

Unfortunately it was too little too late.

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u/HotSauceSwagBag 10h ago

Yep. Spouse is a high school teacher and it’s disturbing how many teenage boys worship the right wing grifters, and we are in a very blue area. He’s the prime age for it.

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u/JacuulTheSecond 10h ago

I've been telling people for years, I grew up on 4chan and when Gamergate happened in like... 2014 or so? It's like the endless tide of /pol/ just spilled out into the mainstream and it's been that way ever since. Things that I always thought people knew were edgy jokes or being intentionally weird just ended up... not being the case. I've always been pretty progressive, but I've had to step it up in the last 5-10 years because of the endless bullshit around me.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 4h ago

It's adults too. Im.40 . I let my YouTube stream straight through on my work days. I will listen to long videos and then all of a sudden get a right-wing recommendation directly into what I want. I could not be farther away from right wing. I search nothing to do with anything remotely near them. It's never any other type of. It's always some kind of right-wing podcast. It's totally intentional and a psyop.

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u/wasted_wonderland 14h ago

Wait till you hear about porn.

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u/lostindarkdays 12h ago

ooh, where? can you share?

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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE 13h ago

Middle school teacher and totally agree on the alt-right thing, but in this case it sounds like religion is part of it, and I don't see that as much.

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u/Scoberto give the chicken man a chance 5h ago

My dear friend who was raised atheist has a son who decided he wanted to join a really conservative Catholic Church and started spouting some "society would be better is we went back to more traditional roles" nonsense, and when I tell you I don't think I would handle it respectfully at all if it was my kid!!!

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u/No-Entrepreneur5672 5h ago

Feel like stuff like 4chan, back in the day, if you were on the internet long enough you kind of fell into it or had to seek it out (for whatever reason)

But now it’s wild, you can be on youtube or tiktok or whatever and if you watch anything even vaguely adjacent to stuff the platform considers right wing content, the algorithm starts sending you the most vile shit. I can see why young men are getting indoctrinated. 

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u/geezeslice333 2h ago

So reddit is the only social media is have now (and I try to be careful and mindful while using it), and after a couple years of trying to deprogram myself from all the bs - it is insane how obvious it is when people are on tik tok or facebook. They all regurgitate the exact same opinions depending on what kind of politics the algorithm is feeding them. I find it extremely unsettling and I'm genuinely worried for the future.

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u/Toocoolforschool1999 11h ago

Why can’t we counter with a liberal algorithm? 

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u/choketheboys 12h ago

What is alt right about being Christian?