America's Coming Mirror-Image Pavlik Morozov Cult: Parents Turning In Their "White Sons" For Racism
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The Soviet Union under Stalin created a cult around Pavlik Morozov, a 13-year-old-child Communist who was endlessly admired for ratting out his own father to the secret police.

Here’s a new NYT opinion essay:

Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons.

By Joanna Schroeder
Ms. Schroeder is a writer.

Oct. 12, 2019

Raising teenagers can be terrifying. Our squishy little babies become awkward hormonal creatures who question our authority at every turn.

I expected that. What I didn’t predict was that my sons’ adolescence would include being drawn to the kind of online content that right-wing extremists use to recruit so many young men.




In the future, the US might have a mirror image to the Stalinists’ Pavel Mozlik cult. The difference will be that we’ll honor parents, like Ms. Schroeder, who rat out their own white sons.

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