Los Angeles: Joanna Schroeder not only warns parents of teenage and tween white boys but also suggest them to keep an eye on the online activities of their sons.
According to the report published in CNN, she warned that if parents failed to do so, white supremacists will do it.
Personal experience
Narrating an incident, the woman said that once she asked her son to go through his social media account in front of her. She was surprised to find memes that jokes of the Holocaust and slavery in his Instagram suggestion.
As the woman is a writer who publishes articles on various topics, she sometimes faces online trolls.
Words used by persons who troll
She was surprised to find her sons using the words which are usually used by the persons who troll online.
Joanna Schroeder, mother of three suggests parents to check whether their sons use words such as Kek, chad, cuck etc.
She said that all white teens are not viewing extremist contents, however, it seems that these contents are meant to target them.
Talking about her reaction after finding memes on his son’s social media account, she said that shaming him would have pushed him in the hands of extremists. She sat down with her sons and decoded the memes.
She suggested parents to have knowledge about how Reddit, Discord and Instagram work.