> Sam’s guidance counselor pulled him out of his next class and accused him of “breaking the law.” Before long, he was in the office of a male administrator who informed him that the exchange was “illegal,” hinted that the police were coming, and delivered him into the custody of the school’s resource officer. At the administrator’s instruction, that man ushered Sam into an empty room, handed him a blank sheet of paper, and instructed him to write a “statement of guilt.”
It is not surprising that it started with someone whose lack of ability to respond caused them to resort to the most extreme measures, thinking that nothing could be worse than doing too little. They have a lot in common with the disillusioned youth whose hateful ideology they were stoking.
These adults saw a child as an easy adversary and jumped at the opportunity to get a win and sing their own praises. Bureaucrats make poor educators and poorer law enforcers.
No, it is both of the antis- you specified. Specifically, it is a story about how the author believes the bad behavior of school administration pushed their sun into the bad world of the alt-right.
Oh, I don't mean to say that it is secretly uncritical of the alt-right. It's clear that the alt-right runs counter to the mother's morals, just that these morals are taken as given and assumed in the audience as well. It is not a direct critique of the alt-right.
There are tons of strange subcultures and radical groups out there looking to eat your mind and the minds of your children. "My child joined the alt-right" is far more of a catchy title than "my child joined a neoreactionary reading group" or "my child joined some communist revolutionaries." Those groups are either things no one has heard of or are has beens. The alt-right still have some energy as today's "evildoers." It's our modern "my child became a satanist," or, hell, "my child became a protestant."
All this is reminiscent of that old "Is Your Child A Hacker." Where is our "Is Your Child A Shitlord?" Of course, the entire story could be a fabrication, for all we know.
Since it's the evil of today and will surely grab some eyeballs... why not stick in some valuable reminders of how absolutely terrible being a child in the school system is?
If that was the intention in this piece, I salute the author!
> Schools should be freaking schools once universal healthcare happens. And once prison actually turns into something about reform.
Why wait? A populace that receives an actual education instead of a Kafkaesque exercise in bureaucratic absurdity will almost certainly be healthier and less prone to crime.
It is not surprising that it started with someone whose lack of ability to respond caused them to resort to the most extreme measures, thinking that nothing could be worse than doing too little. They have a lot in common with the disillusioned youth whose hateful ideology they were stoking.
These adults saw a child as an easy adversary and jumped at the opportunity to get a win and sing their own praises. Bureaucrats make poor educators and poorer law enforcers.