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🤡Oh we're uploading charts about why teens are unhappy? And saying it's "the phones" or "the apps?"

Well, let me upload my charts!

Showing that:
* Black kids are online *much more* than white kids.
* Black kids have seen *much less* increase in depression since 2011.

🙂🙃

If you ask older conservative adjacent dudes what's making teens depressed, they'll confidently tell you "smartphones and apps!"

But if you ask teens what's making them depressed, they'll tell you "older conservative adjacent dudes."

The racist people that used to target Black teens online, in real life, at school, at the doctor's office...

...have now started targeting white teens, online, in real life, at school, and at the doctor's office.

Like we said they would. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Picture a white teenage girl posting the following on Instagram:

"Feeling blessed! I just voted for Katie Porter, because she supports reproductive rights and gun control and anti-racism! I personally don't plan to have kids. I can't afford it! And I care about the environment."

There's a good chance that she could wind up the target of several different F*x News segments or attacks by sitting politicians.

I count at least 6 issues she could be attacked for, and receive online threats of violence for.

Yeah, that might make her unhappy.

That's before we even get to the unhappiness from unhealthy comparison to others.

If your solution for increasing her happiness is "Just don't be online!" Then I don't know what to tell you. I can't even argue with that. We're too far apart to even have a meaningful conversation.

Yes, a Black teen girl posting that same thing to Instagram would receive the same abuse. Worse actually.

But your racist F*x News watching relatives have been dishing this abuse out to Black folk since forever. It's not new to us.

What's new is that the hate has now come for your kids.

@mekkaokereke

> What's new is that the hate has now come for your kids.

That was my take on what you said. Reading that (I'm LGBTQIA+) I immediately think about all the other areas that are invisible boundaries they don't see until all of us flow around them. At risk groups are always the 'canary in the mine' for these types of behaviors and they just never listen.

There is too much personal ownership. They would have to read and understand the blindness, and that hurts. Way easier to just blame the applications.

@mentallyalex @mekkaokereke Makes me think of Swedish people in the 80s who went "people shouldn't adopt Korean kids because other kids will mock them" and we kids knew that yeah those kids who would mock them are your kids, the rest of us just treat them as friends and classmates.
Alex

@clacke Oh wow - I had no idea. (I'm painfully American in some areas :blobcatgiggle: )

Yea that makes a lot of sense. We have those same struggles with non-white babies. It's harder to adopt as people want babies that they can pretend erupted from them directly.

I grew up around a few adopted people and I have non-white family members that I grew up with. They experienced a lot of unique discomfort because they were non-white living in white neighborhoods with white family members. In specific they were made to feel like they weren't real members of our family.

One of them has dealt with those issues into their adulthood and in our later adult life.

@mekkaokereke