My son has gone on the march

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Hi, have been on here years but only lurk, don’t post. But today is the day.
I am in bits. My 22yr old DS is in London on this march. I am shaking and utterly appalled. We differ on politics massively and have done for some time. I work in education, have travelled and am bit of a lefty hippy but to be honest it’s becoming more about values and morals. He is fully immersed in the manosphere algorithm and I’ve always thought he is exploring himself and things and have chats about why he has the opinions he does and try and understand his point of view. I try not to belittle him but try and get him to critically think about things.
But this I can’t deal with. I am so upset that my son has gone to this, and that it is something that is so far away from me and my values, something that I thought I had instilled in him as well.
I am totally aware that it’s triggered embarrassment but that is my issue and I’m not putting that on him. He is still my son and I love him and his passion and interest in the world, just in something I believe is so wrong and makes me sad.
Please talk some sense into me.

Neighbour across the road thinks all women are inferior. His wife's only use is as a breeder, his mother in-law as a childminder . He'll only talk to my husband and other male neighbours. Thinks me uppity telling my husband to keep me in line. And yet he worships the ground his mother walks on. It's amusing because he's a rarity, it would be frightening if his views were the majority where we live.

So we aren’t overrun then? Goodo.

Virtue signalling just requires an audience, they dont need to know you 😂.

Its the path of least effort and research, and makes the signaller feel all warm and self righteous. The rest of us know the world isnt just full of goodies and baddies, and take time to find the nuance..

Is this a joke?

No it's an opinion I think.

That photo wasn't just snapped spontaneously. They chose the location. They posed. The photo was taken as the number on the bus is very clearly in shot. These things didn't happen by chance.

Well if he’s kitted himself out like that then no wonder she’s shaking.

I’ve not seen any mask-wearing counter protestors, but okay.

I guess similar to what the poor Jewish community have had to put UK with every Saturday fpr months from the hostile pro palestinian protesters...awful isnt it?

Well according to the ONS 81% of the population are white. I don’t think the 3% is correct.

Hopefully he’s not in the mob fighting police currently.

I've lived in Saudi Arabia-you abide by their rules or get kicked out. We are too soft in this country, allowing people to be fully veiled-it's not our way of life. Does that make me a racist?

Interesting that it’s the ones opposed to SYL who are most likely to say they know it. Maybe we used facts to make our judgement of him?

I asked a question, drop the nastiness. Intent for what? Don’t you think they know what they are there for?

Because that's what we've always done, marched in protest against issues we're not happy with.

You likely follow more of this stuff than others. A lot of the things people reference from X or BlueSky like names or what TR is up to isn’t something I see. I’m not on there and miss it unless repeated on here.

And as I’ve already said, you can’t possibly know that.

Hahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahhagahahahhahahahhagahahhagahhay!!! Right. Of course it is.

There's so much anti semitism coming from the pro-Palestinian brigade, that one symbol of HH is just a drop in the ocean.🤷‍♀️

The headlines I’ve seen have said 900,000, but okay, if we go with 3 million, that’s about 4% of Englands population, if you imagine the distribution of IQ across the population in a bell curve that’s probably about right for the lower end.

Superior? Absolutely!

If it's been like my experience today, I agree.

Well, we are talking about the far right. I for one have never attributed much brain power to them.
It’s a fact they use it. A PP posted a link if you want to read it, or you could google yourself.

Again as I said earlier it will depend on the news outlet as to which photos they will show.

Please stop.

What do you mean “it’s not our way of life” .. it’s very much out way of life - you can wear pretty much wear what you want, we don’t police it (unless you are specifically supporting a designated terrorist organisation).

It’s part of the liberal way of life we all enjoy .. and that these protestors say they are protecting (but aren’t)

If a woman chooses to be veiled, that’s her beeswax. I wouldn’t do it, but nobody is making me.

It’s not about freedom of speech.
We have freedom of speech.
As a left wing person I would never march with the right wing because I fundamentally disagree with their agenda.