Devorah Heitner
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
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I think what we worry about is the toxicity of some of these spaces and the negativity.
And I think those fall into different categories.
One thing that I
wrote about a little bit for growing up in public is about sort of mental health discord and other mental health spaces and how if you're struggling with your mental health.
the best place for you might not be like to spend hours and hours talking about mental health in a mental health discord server or on a mental health reddit or in a mental health quora.
Like these might not be the most positive peers to engage in, like for your recovery and your moving forward.
So that's like one set of problems.
And then I think we've been talking a lot about the sort of political recruiting and especially
for our kids who identify as boys and especially for kids who are white identified, like these are kids who the far right would love to find your white boy child or teenager and get them on board with some very intense
thinking about women, about people of color, about immigration.
And no matter where you fall, I think on the political spectrum, the idea of your kid being indoctrinated intensively by people online should concern you.
I think it's more evident when it's really far from your own beliefs.
But I think anytime
our kids are getting out of context kind of intense persuasion about how they should act or feel about other people outside of the context of real life.
I think that should be concerning to us.
Again, no matter where you fall on the political issues that are being discussed yourself, that's really tricky, I think, for a lot of parents to even understand how that's happening.
Like where are they getting this and what is going on?
Sure.
Well, a new Pew study found out, and I'll send you the link so you can include it in the notes, because I think this is really helpful that shows where teenagers are, like as of very recently.
And I think since the pandemic, we haven't known.
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