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Nah, this is a thing in America and it's been something I've been around for my entire life. Older people have always talked shit about the youth. Young people also talk shit about other young people. Everytime I hear people start to say "young people these days [insert wildly dumb generalization about youth]" I want to pull my fucking hair out.

Yes, this is a thing in America.

It also seems to mix with racism a lot.

Sounds like developed countries are slowly turning into developing countries. This is something I’ve always experienced in Guatemala and hasn’t ever stopped in the cities.

My state legislature in the USA is spending an inordinate amount of time crafting legislative fixes for the recent spree of car thefts that Young Criminals are committing after seeing tik toks about how easy it is. Given the racism and fear of cities here, you can imagine the confluence of weird reactionary ideas that goes through people's minds. They think it's Chinese psyops directing the hordes of illegal anchor babies to wreck their pickup trucks.

And it's not like youth crime isn't a problem. I street park my car, and we've had break-ins and catalytic converter theft in this neighborhood, so I personally want some solutions. But there's never any thought put into actually trying to improve the opportunities that these kids have. Or to providing support for direct interventions in the lives of those kids who are most at-risk (it's usually pretty obvious which ones those are, you can just ask their teachers). Instead, we just get the usual responses: more cops, and platitudes about how the state government is going to sue Kia. Meanwhile, we continue to create a world that is utterly hostile to kids. Children of Men is an aspirational goals for these people, I swear.

youth crime was a pretty big talking point for national in last year's election (new zealand), so yeah those brainworms are here too now but idk if they're an invasive australian species or a similar native one since I don't know how the emergence of those narratives lined up chronologically.

i live in the us midwest and in my city old farts won't shut the fuck up about it either. they're really big into complaining about car joy rides here. reactionaries have always hated the kids though. i mean, even fucking "ask them questions, i know nothing" Socrates himself whined about how the advent of writing was going to make the kids stupid because real thinkers could keep it all in their heads and speeches.

But no, old people are screeching about how kids are little shits that need to be punished even more. They want to just arrest everyone and create career criminals instead of solving the real root causes behind it (poverty, capitalism, lack of society caring about their problems).

and some stupid labor governer is literally going to breathe life into these boomer rants by making prison sentences for teenage offender harsher or sthing, fucking genius

From what I hear this has been a thing in for ages.

The US also obviously has it to some degree and has horrific policies towards the kids, but I don't think its the same level of cultural obsession rn at least

Not in Australia but yeah, chuds and libs are really weird about it. Very bloodthirsty too. I often hear "the parents of those kids should be shot!"

Our local fascist here in Austria has recently suggested putting all youth criminals in camps.

I am also an Australia and yeah, I hate this shit. Like people say it and it sounds corny, but children are literally the future. I don't know why people are so dead set on hating them and making their lives worse.

We hate kids so much in America, some businesses invest in sound systems just to blast out noise that only kids can hear.

It's for sure a thing. I live around a bunch of schools and life is hard during their lunch hour cause there's crowds of asshole kids everywhere, but that's cause they all get the same lunch hour and 3 schools are flooding the same McDonald's, the surrounding area will be a problem. But whatever, kids are obnoxious jerks who dont care about the people around them that ain't new. You note that you were just as shitty and move along.

I'm glad you're seeing this because so few see what's happening before their very eyes. It IS different from the moral panics of the past and it does go past "kids these days" The west hates and is hostile to it's children. Even pets are treated much nicer.