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Yes, you're right that the reaction to this could be very bad. We'll see. I think it could go either way. The American public has a very short attention span and this sort of thing tends to burn brightly for a while then blow out as soon as the next big story breaks.
As for the rest of what you said...so....we should be more concerned about teachers and students hurting some kids' feelings than the Republicans taking away actual things like jobs, healthcare, housing, vaccines, trade agreements, and alliances that took generations to build and less than a year to destroy.
These emotionally damaged young men need to snap the fuck out of it and realize who is really hurting them and who really killed the American dream. It's not some dumbass underpaid woke college professor. Pieces of shit like Charlie Kirk come along and brainwash these same gullible kids into thinking the Republicans want to "help them" bootstrap their way out of the same crab bucket wage slavery that the Republicans created.
There are millions of teenagers and 20-somethings who grew up listening to Charlie Kirk. For kids on the right, this is like if Joe Rogan or Mr Beast was killed.
I don't think this is going away.
I can't predict the future, and there will be some short-term fallout (potentially very bad fallout) from this. These young men will hold a grudge for sure, but I think it's much harder to say how long of a lasting imprint this will make on them.
Many of them will grow up and realize "maybe I need to work on my mental health and general qualifications as a human being and stop thinking we can bully women into being barefoot pregnant tradwives". The differences between what young men and what young women want out of life right now is truly astonishing. Check the polling data.
Part of this phenomenon stems from the unfortunate biological fact that young men don't truly mature until about the age of 35. At that point, many of them (not all of them) have grown up and obtained some maturity and perspective. They finally realize that the world doesn't revolve around me and my shortcomings and grievances. If they want to become better men, they work at providing some actual value and to at least occasionally serve others unselfishly in a non-transactional manner. Thinking you're entitled to sex and children just because "that's what real men get" is a road to rejection and solitude. Some will figure this out. Some never do.
As for CK's legacy.... lies and bullshit travel orders of magnitude faster than the truth, but the truth tends to win the marathons.
No?
But it remains that the social dynamics at play make a lot of young conservatives ripe for grooming.
It's kinda like being a socially awkward teen, and later becoming an Incel (capital I), and later believing that feminism is ripping society apart at its seams—there are pipelines that move people from childhood to adulthood. And sometimes these pipes stem from really simple things, like that modern city design and culture have made people really, really lonely.
That's like telling a depressed person to just be happy...
"Pieces of shit like Charlie Kirk come along and" address these people's issues for better or for worse, while "some dumbass underpaid woke college professor" isn't (socially) allowed to do so or doesn't want to
No, it's more like telling an addict to stop using.