From my recent Substack article, “Unplugged From Reality: How The Forces that Radicalized Tyler Robinson May Be Closer to Home Than You Think“:
Ironically, conservative parents who would never think to pay for their son or daughter to sit under Neo-Marxist professors nevertheless let their teenagers have access to Reddit and YouTube, which is a radicalization chamber infinitely more effective than the classroom because it occurs in the isolation of psychic autonomy. Of course, it doesn’t start there: no parent wakes up one day and says, “I want my child to consume a toxic diet of polarizing ideology on Reddit, while also consuming enough violent porn videos to become inoculated to brutality.” A twelve year-old with a Mac in his bedroom may initially be only interested in gaming; but gaming is so powerful an addiction that this is where weary parents usually give up the battle. After years of fighting over Minecraft and Fortnite, the parents typically back off for the sake of peace, so that by the time their teenager discovers Reddit and Pornhub, the parents have already rendered themselves impotent.