Funny how absolutely everything is “for attention” and the response from you lot is always to not just ignore, but actively antagonize and suppress. Problems with your kids? They want attention, don’t give it to them, just send them to bed without dinner.
Also funny how every time a problem you give this treatment to boils over it somehow comes as a surprise and somebody should have been paying attention.
I mean the kids? The kids you’re supposed to be thinking of? The family whose values you’re supposed to be representing? The kids you’ve pointedly ignored have become such strangers in their own homes and alone in crowds that are even less interested in their problems than their parents they’re disaffected to the point where they get pulled into gangs, cults, militant groups, or just fucking snap and gun down a school? Well all those people should have been paying attention to their kids despite the part where you kept saying doing so is bad for them. Same goes for your kids “suddenly turning gay” or “suddenly hating you” or “suddenly not being what you raised them to be” or you “suddenly” don’t know the first thing about them. The word “sudden” here really stressing the air quotes and the implication that these are comparable to actual problems like the ones you ignore containing the same amount of biting sarcasm and contempt as those air quotes.
And it’s worse that it’s more than just our kids we do this to. Race relations? Sexual predation? The slow decline of society into an unlivable state? They just want attention. Ignore them like you ignore your kids and if the difference in social power between you is great enough punish them for bothering you the same way you would the children you only notice when they displease you by being individual people and not boxes ticked off your checklist. But then when you’re afraid of riots, the people you idolized rather than the people you kept giving the stinkeye to turn out to be rapists and child molesters, and you’re in the middle of a rotting city with a rising cost of living you can’t blame on the “wrong” people moving in? That’s all a surprise. There was no reason for a riot, the victims should have said something, and are you SURE we can’t blame somebody who just moved in for having ignored infrastructure, allowed natural resources to dwindle or become tainted, laughing off environmentalists as attention seekers to safely ignore, and the police are openly terrorizing what used to be the middle class now that the gap’s so wide the majority became the have-nots?
These panics you manufacture one after another? THOSE are for attention, and I fucking wish we could ignore you but your every attempt to make yourselves the only group of relevance in the public consciousness are actively destructive.