Karen Amsden, the mother of one of the dozens of white supremacists who were arrested in a U-Haul in Idaho on Saturday, wasn’t thrilled to find out what her son was up to that day.
27 years old and still living at home. Yep, it fits.
We have a crisis of disaffected, rudderless, failure-to-launch white boy losers in this country.
I don’t really have any ideas.
Finally! A Karen I can like!
Hmmm. Preparing to attack a Pride parade, gay dad, I wonder.
Homosocial was popularized by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in her discussion of male homosocial desire. Sedgwick used the term to distinguish from “homosexual” and to connote a form of male bonding often accompanied by fear or hatred of homosexuality.
(ie Matt Shepherd’s killers)
I get the temptation to say stuff like this in order to throw the macho, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps rhetoric that right wingers use back in their faces. But it’s still bullshit when we say it. Times are hard and have been hard for awhile. It’s entirely reasonable for young adults to have challenges that make it necessary to live with their parents. This guy is a literal Nazi that was captured in a U-Haul full of Nazis. There’s plenty to laugh at him for without stuff like this.
When someone embodies a stereotype, we should ignore it?
Good for Mom. She also said she’s speaking out so that “Patriot” Front will kick her son out. I hope that happens; perhaps Sonny Boy will come to his senses when he realizes that nobody wants him around so he’d better get a Real Jerb stat.
I don’t think it’s a disgrace to live with one’s parents as an adult, as long as one is living with one’s parents in an adult-like fashion, that is, helping around the house, with meals, pets, etc. Something tells me Sonny Boy was not doing that.
I think one of the main points is a shared fantasy that includes hate, intolerance, threats, intimidation, violence and firearms. The fantasy includes using violence, especially using firearms, as the ultimate means to win, settle scores, or gain power.
I’m old enough to remember that at one time every bad behavior in a child was the fault of the mother. Doesn’t seem like it in this case.
As much as I’d like to laugh at these idiots pretending to be Captain America at the world’s most fascist Halloween party, the nice people of Wiemar Germany also laughed at the Nazis. Until they suddenly weren’t all that fucking funny anymore.
Maybe we need a new maternal militia?
“Stop, Mom! You’re embarrassing me in front of the Quick Reaction Force!”
‘Well, I can’t quit Patriot Front.’
Sounds like a cult member to me.
I can sympathize with those who can’t find a place they can afford on an entry-level salary (housing is REALLY expensive), or is living with their parents to save up to buy a condo or something like that. But living with your parents as an adult hopefully means you live with them as an adult, that is, being a contributing (as in chores, etc.) member of the household.
But I don’t think this is the case with these type of young men, because I don’t see many young women or non-white young men mooching off their parents and joining hate groups.
Sounds like a undifferentiated family ego mass to me (this was late husband’s favorite expression. He a was a clinical social worker).
Clinical social work is a specialty practice area of social work which focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness, emotional, and other behavioral disturbances . Individual, group and family therapy are common treatment modalities.
Re living at Mom’s — I think the guy returned home after leaving his wife and children, reportedly because of his white supremacist activities. Not much known about ex-wife and kiddies.
I might hypothesize that some of this is a lovely legacy of GWB’s forever wars. Enlistment sounds less attractive when an entire generation is fed into a purposeless grinder of meat and dust.
I know more than a few men who came of age in the 1990s who really got their shit together within the strictures and structures of military service. Maybe kids like this could have been similarly rescued rather than radicalized.
At the same time, I recognize the right-fashy breeding ground that the services can be. I don’t know how to tidily square the circle.
Wonderful Mom.
Quite randomly, I just got a like on a post from last year for which I had no memory: