Devorah Heitner
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2,393 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
Devorah Heitner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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on the inclusive side, like why why schools and communities and volunteer organizations need to you know say to thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year olds, like, yes, you can have a leadership, you know, position with a lot of autonomy and like
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, because these other organizations will do it and they'll make your kid feel really valued and really needed.
And that's what happened with her kid.
For in that situation, her kid then went to
A rally where the people that he'd been talking to online were quite hateful.
Um, acting quite hateful in public.
And he recognized the dissonance between what he had thought was this loving, accepting group.
And the ways people were acting, and he was able to say, I need out, like this isn't right for me.
It's scary that it got to that point, but I think that's that's what was the wake-up call.
But I think it's really important to understand that anyone who's been excluded or left out is going to be especially vulnerable to someone who has an explanation for that and has someone to blame for that, and also offers you a place where you're needed and wanted and encouraged.
The thing is a certain amount of skepticism all the way up to a conspiracy theory is going to be very attractive to teenagers because teenagers are just at this moment to where they're like, Well, now I know about climate change.
What else haven't you told me?
Like what else have you guys screwed up and left me to deal with?
And like to a certain degree that feeling is justified.
I think climate change is a good example.
Like I think if Gen Z kids are a little PO'd.
at the adults in their life to be like, oh thanks.
Like we're supposed to solve this, like now that it's 110 degrees.
That's legitimate, right?
And there's a lot of things about adolescence where you start to really put together like, oh, these are the things that haven't.
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