>Almost 40% of Australian teenage boys support “right-wing violent extremism” and one-third support “White supremacist violent extremism”, new University of Melbourne research shows.>Lead researcher Dr Sara Meger, a senior lecturer in international relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences, surveyed 1,100 boys and girls aged 13 to 17, and 2,300 adult men and women, including 14 who claimed to be “non-binary”, The Advertiser reported.>Respondents were asked if they agreed or disagreed with a range of statements, including “society demonises Whiteness today, so violent resistance is the only way for White people to have a fair chance in the world”, to determine whether they supported different types of so-called violent extremism.>A quarter of boys supported every form of violent extremism identified in the survey, 39% supported “right-wing” types, followed by “White supremacist” on 29.7%, “anti-feminist” on 28.6%, “left-wing” on 28.5%, “incel” on 25.5%, “religious-based” on 21.1%.>For girls, 17% supported all forms of violent extremism listed, including 30.4% for right-wing, 21.6% for left-wing, 21.1% for anti-feminist, 19.3% for White supremacist, 17.5% for incel, and 13.9% for religious-based.>The research found that almost 24% of the 661 teenage boys surveyed exhibited radicalising intent, 18% sympathised with radical violence, and 10.4% harboured violent intent.>36.3% agreed with “misogynistic attitudes”, 40.5% mistrusted women, 29% minimised violence against women, 20.7% excused the behaviour of those who use violence against women, and 20% disagreed with the concept of “affirmative consent”.https://www.noticer.news/australian-teenage-boys-right-wing-research/ 60 posts and 6 image replies omitted.>>2638050they are liberals though? right wing liberals, but that doesn't outright prohibit them from being liberals, part of the point i and that guy is trying to nail home, neo-fascism isn't a real thing, and i don't mean right-wing populism in general, that is at least a real, demonstrable phenomena with effects on the world, actual neo-fascists are not real, they have a presence in the world, but they are typically nothing but street thugs and paraders, and those who sympathise with them, especially the youth are not genuine believers in the movement, fundamentally it is an aesthetic they put on to feel strong or tough, because they are weak, because they are uneducated, because they are unhappy, then when they get older, they typically just turn into standard right-liberals
tf is a 15 year old gonna do exactly
>>2638065get groomed by the NSN and turned into one of their thugs, it's a real problem
and to emphasize this so you guys get it, i say the NSN and pretty much every neo-fascist group isn't really a thing is because there are no successful neo-fascist movements, they are all either basically just organized crime groups, non-state death squads, or cults, the NSN falls into the third group, the NSN isn't a political movement, it doesn't protest, it marches, it doesn't advocate for real policies or real change, it advocates whatever is popular in the right wing space, and some shock on top, they haven't achieved much of anything except expanding their cult, they aren't even like the right-wing populist parties either, which also do the same vibes-based worldview but there is something concrete there, by any measure, they are similar to the manson family or fundamentalist mormons, notorious but unaccomplished, and yes, some cults are also political too, the rajneeshis did take over a town and attempted to take over a county, they at least were something that existed beyond a general vibe