"Modern society treats men like trash. Replacement migration is real," she says. "They don't do this because they love and care for old white people or our birth rates ... They do it because they hate us and want us replaced." Her son was unwittingly liking racist, misogynistic memes that were popping up randomly in his feet. She explains the algorithm to him: If you don't fully understand it, don't heart it. Don't like it. Read it. Or if even with school drama, if I saw my kid be mean to somebody or something, I could be like, Hey, hey, hey, come here. What you wrote right there?"
A lot of IRL violence starts with online radicalization. We revisit our conversation with writer and parent Joanna Schroeder, who wrote a guide for parents about what to look out for and how to intervene.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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