By Abdul Masih —
They grew up being told they were trash, oppressors, the detestable sewage of the West. Any other group’s sexual and racial identity was celebrated. But because they were part of the “patriarchy,” everything wrong with society was their fault. It is too hard to comprehend that these white Gen Z teenage boys fumed with acrimony?
“It was never the fault of 15-year-old Zoomer boys who understandably bristle at being held responsible for something they neither created nor benefited from,” says Konstantin Kisin, a UK pundit. “Because they are white men, nobody cares about their problems. Is it really a surprise that some of them are resentful, angry and openly rebellious?”
In a backlash against toxic wokeism, many Gen Zers have turned to Christ. Others have turned to Nick Fuentes, a black-hating, misogynistic, Nazi-praising demagogue who blames every problem on the world’s supposed cabal of Jewish elites. “Those people, when we take power, need to be given the death penalty,” Fuentes said.
For a longer list of Fuentes quotes, click here.
Fuentes, 27, of Chicago, Illinois, rages against immigration, LGBTQ and America’s involvement in foreign wars on his invitation-only, self-hosted podcast America First. His estimated 1M followers are called Groypers, of spurious etymology derived from Pepe the Frog in 2015.
Core members infiltrate conservative events, like Turning Point USA, to either disrupt or radicalize attendees. In 2019, they mounted a Groyper War to wrest power in the Republican Party. Until recently, their erratic, fringe beliefs and subversive activity was largely and correctly ignored. Tucker Carlson changed all that when he hosted Nick Fuentes on his influential show on Oct. 28.
Suddenly, the white nationalist, antisemite movement was brought center stage, where Fuentes could amplify his message, mass recruit alienated young men and instill hate, racism and fascism (Fuentes regularly says, “Heil, Hitler!” on his show).
Jewish Americans, many of whose parents or grandparents suffered in the Holocaust, reacted in horror at the resurgence of 1930s-like animosity and called for the Heritage Foundation to censure Carlson. Instead, Heritage president Kevin Roberts backed up his friend Carlson in the name of Free Speech.
Kisin doesn’t blame the young men who got mesmerized by the repugnant rhetoric. Kisin doesn’t even blame Fuentes.
“Fuentes is not the problem. He is a symptom,” Kisin says. “A quarter of Gen Z grew up without a father. They’ve had less male guidance and direction than any group of men in American history. As a result of the growing feminization of education and society at large, many young men were not taught to channel their aggression, anger and competitiveness into productive activity.
“Gen Z spent their entire formative years lagging behind women in education and now in earnings,” Kisin adds. “And for the entirety of this time, they were told that all men are trash, the future is female, and that they were to blame for every ill of humanity.
Kisin calls the disgruntled white young men The Woke Right.
“Like the Woke Left that believes in oppressor/oppressed dynamics, racial justice and a conspiratorial force that’s holding them back, the Woke Right initially blamed the globalists but that evolved into simply the Jews who are responsible for the suffering of the disadvantaged and oppressed white male,” Kisin says.
“Many of us have warned for many years that Wokeness would produce an equal and opposite reaction on the Right,” Kisin adds. “How could it not? Did you really think that telling one group that they’re bad because of their sex and skin color while celebrating and promoting other groups for their sex and skin color would not produce an identitarian backlash?”
Carlson’s shenanigans have driven a wedge between older and younger conservatives. As the older generation fears a revival of antisemitism and wants to stamp it out, the younger generation wants to preserve an absolute free speech that not only allows Fuentes to spew but amplifies his spew on a larger stage.
“They are the voice of a generation which feels ignored, mistreated and unfairly maligned,” Kisin says. “They don’t want small government. They want revenge.“
Perhaps the solution is not punishing the young men who unwittingly have become hypnotized by a hate-monger. It is more likely to win their hearts and souls with reason, patience and love. It was hurt heart that became a hate heart.
