Are anti-rights movements infiltrating high schools? We uncover the deliberate, decades-old strategy the far-right is using to target young people, weaponise their insecurities, and build a pipeline of extremist power.
In this episode of In Solidarity, openDemocracy’s Senior Investigations Reporter Sian Norris sits down with Jamie Vernaelde, Senior Researcher at Ipas. They dive deep into a chilling new report detailing how far-right and anti-rights movements are actively grooming the next generation. From exploiting economic and physical insecurities to pumping massive financial investments into youth pipelines, Jamie exposes the conservative playbook for molding young minds.
More importantly, they discuss what the progressive movement is getting wrong about youth engagement and how we can fight back by giving young people the space and resources to lead.
Read the full report here: https://www.ipas.org/resource/future-proofing-the-professionalization-of-an-anti-rights-youth-generation/
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Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 How the Far-Right Targets Gen Z
04:15 Why Young Women are Drifting to the Far-Right
06:23 The 'Tradwife' Trend: A Pipeline to Radicalisation?
08:13 Rebranding Extremism for Secular Youth
11:36 The Wellness-to-Alt-Right Pipeline Explained
13:07 Why Contraception is the Right’s Next Target
15:12 Exposing the Dark Money Behind Anti-Rights Groups
18:04 The Playbook to Weaponise the Courts
20:08 Inside the Global War on Human Rights
22:57 The 'Elite' Seduction: Recruiting on Campus
24:39 Weaponising Victimhood: The Conservative Media Strategy
28:13 The Left’s Blindspot: How Progressives Can Fight Back