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When kids become vigilantes: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

archived 17 Oct 2021 13:24:04 UTC

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SJW parent, presumably a mother finds her son's kill list on family laptop, a spreadsheet of his peers and their anti-progressive crimes. Asks agony aunt for advice on how to handle the situation. Is less concerned about her son obviously being a political radical at 14 and is more worried about the fact they're white and some of the kids on his list are black and a BIPOC should be doing this instead.

Reminder to discourage these people from breeding as much as possible

Dear Care and Feeding,
My son, “Jack,” 14, has been maintaining a spreadsheet that tracks all of his classmate’s problematic actions. Jack has always had difficulty fitting in, but he is a compassionate and intelligent boy. We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites, so our kids share a laptop that we monitor and control access to. We found an excel spreadsheet in Jack’s folder that listed the names of all of his classmates, as well as dates and descriptions of their problematic behavior. Some of the descriptions I saw include “has a mom who is a cop,” “no pronouns in insta bio,” “laughed at a fat joke,” “lists problematic show as one of their favorites,” “mimicked a foreign accent,” and “used cis-normative language.”
While I am pleased to see Jack taking an interest in his peers, I get a weird feeling about his spreadsheet. As much as I don’t condone the behaviors mentioned, it seems a bit creepy for him to be monitoring his classmates. I also wonder what he is trying to do with the document. Another concern is that we are white and some of the kids on the list are Black. Given the long history of white people policing Black existence, I question whether Jack is the right person to be taking on this task and whether it would be more appropriate coming from a BIPOC person.
We have asked Jack about the spreadsheet and he denies involvement, but we know that it couldn’t be anyone else. Am I right to be concerned about Jack’s list? I don’t know that it is the best way for him to engage with his peers and promote social justice. On the other hand, I am proud of how committed he is to this cause and I don’t want to stop him from bearing witness to injustices within his own community.
—Problematic or Productive?
Dear PoP,
Based on what you’ve mentioned here, his list does seem a little creepy. Kids at that age should be having fun, not documenting every transgression his peers are making. Also, the fact that he’s blatantly lying about his involvement in creating this list should be a huge red flag. If everything is on the up and up, then what does he have to hide? I would personally call his bluff and say, “OK, if this spreadsheet has nothing to do with you, then let’s delete it.” If he raises a stink, then you know that something bigger is at play here.
I respect your viewpoint about being uncomfortable with Jack policing the behavior of his Black peers, but as a Black man, that should be the least of your concerns. Your main objective is to find out why he wants to monitor his classmates in the first place. Is he trying to be a social justice vigilante in an effort to be viewed as cool? Does he want his classmates to be “cancelled” for doing things that he considers to be wrong as a form of payback for not being accepted by them? The possibilities are endless. If you don’t feel equipped to get to the bottom of it, then I highly recommend getting a therapist involved because his behavior is not typical for a 14-year-old.
On a positive note, there are far worse things Jack could be doing than this—and it seems as if his heart is in the right place by being in the corner of marginalized groups. He could use his energy to volunteer as a Big Brother, write for the school newspaper (if they have one), or look for other opportunities at school to make everyone feel included.
I just think the spreadsheet is something that could end up being bad news for him, and I hope you enroll him in therapy so an unbiased mental health professional can tell him the same thing.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Reminder to discourage these people from breeding as much as possible

This is why I have no problems with them having abortions or refusing to have families. As I see it, it’s a net benefit if they don’t reproduce.

 

[W00K #17]

Jesus this obvious troll letter has already been posted before.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Jesus this obvious troll letter has already been posted before.

Probably the reason that even though we have very few rules here, one of them is to use the exact original title of the article for the thread.

It doesn't work very well when journoscum keep doing stealth edits and changing said titles, but in theory it should make it easier to identify these reposts...

 

[Tranimal Farm]

Probably the reason that even though we have very few rules here, one of them is to use the exact original title of the article for the thread.

It doesn't work very well when journoscum keep doing stealth edits and changing said titles, but in theory it should make it easier to identify these reposts...

noted and changed

 

[totallyrandomusername]

Any kid that would "Track" the actions of his peers is a fucking creep. This kid needs to be locked in a psych institute.

 

[Drkinferno72]

Just being a good little stasi agent

 

[Dona Morte]

If this a troll by the kid I APPLAUD at the masterful trigger of his parents.

 

[Tranimal Farm]

If this a troll by the kid I APPLAUD at the masterful trigger of his parents.

if its not a troll then I'd say parent* singular. If true then theres no way this kid's dad is in the picture.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Alert; Left wing incel attempts to cancel schoolmates for laughing at Dave Chapelle special with an illegal handgun but is brought down by fat curvy black teacher who simply sat on him. More at 11.

 

[WonderWino]

If its a troll attempt its a profoundly stupid one. Anybody finds out about that and takes it the wrong way its a good way for the kid to get arrested for creating a hit list of potential targets for an attack of some kind. Parents can be real touchy about that kind of thing and schools generally have a zero tolerance policy for lists like this for exactly that reason, joking or otherwise. Doing something like this in the 90s or early to mid 2000s would have risked the cops showing up at the kids house looking for weapons

That said, the parent has to be stupider than a box of rocks to not see they're the reason for stuff like this happening

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

I don't think the kid is trolling. I don't think the kid exists. The letter is the troll.

Whoever wrote it is really good at mimicking Stage 4 Leftism, but there are some tells. It's a little too on the nose at parts, and there's a lot of pre-emptive justification of obviously harmful behavior. Leftists usually don't bother justifying anything they do because they know nobody will do anything about it.

Also, no good leftist would have an issue with policing a black person if said black person is being a problematic incel Nazi transphobe. They have absolutely no qualms with calling black cops niggers and porch monkeys. If you're not part of the cult, your life doesn't matter, regardless of color.

 

[Corpun]

This is why I have no problems with them having abortions or refusing to have families. As I see it, it’s a net benefit if they don’t reproduce.

I say cut out the middle man and take the newborn away from them while making sure they are infertile afterwards. There are plenty of non-batshit families willing to adopt.

 

[nicetry]

I don't think the kid is trolling. I don't think the kid exists. The letter is the troll.

Whoever wrote it is really good at mimicking Stage 4 Leftism, but there are some tells. It's a little too on the nose at parts, and there's a lot of pre-emptive justification of obviously harmful behavior. Leftists usually don't bother justifying anything they do because they know nobody will do anything about it.

Also, no good leftist would have an issue with policing a black person if said black person is being a problematic incel Nazi transphobe. They have absolutely no qualms with calling black cops niggers and porch monkeys. If you're not part of the cult, your life doesn't matter, regardless of color.

yeah. an attempt was made, but it's already given away by the second or third line or whatever:

We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites

lol

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

He could use his energy to volunteer as a Big Brother

Sounds like he's already doing that...