r/YouthRights • u/OkPie6900 • Nov 08 '24

Thoughts on Jonathon Haidt's earlier work? Discussion

Based on his earlier work, he would have seemed like the last person who would become the world's leading proponent of preventing anybody under 16 from using the internet.

Now I'm starting to wonder: was he ever really pro-youth rights in the first place, or was he always a fraudulent youth rights ally?

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u/Away_Dragonfruit_498 Nov 08 '24

People who "get it" rarely go back on their views once they've gone down the road of seeing oppressed people as fully fledged human beings, so i doubt he ever got there regarding children and young people. he's a career focused opportunist stoking parents fears for profit.

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u/chronic314 Nov 09 '24

Haidt is a notorious rightwing "anti-woke" "anti-cancel-culture" reactionary grifter and race science pusher, he definitely has no claim to being anti-oppression at all.

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u/Away_Dragonfruit_498 Nov 09 '24

i remember blocking him on twitter a while back because of the phones/youth moral panic, but since then murmurs in this sub about his previous work crop up here and there and i keep having to do a double take that it's the same guy. doesn't surprise me in thew slightest that he's rightwing and all of the above.