I’m very annoyed by the insistent use of the word “teen” in reports of increased gang activity. Even conservative reporters repeat “teen, teen, teen” like crazed parrots.
The criminal in question is an adult repeat offender. In all of the videos of gang riots, most of the criminals look very adult.
Whoever invented the term “teen takeover”, with its air of playfulness supported by the use of alliteration, is a skilled propagandist. Let’s not buy into the propaganda and repeat the terminology unthinkingly. These are violent gang riots. We don’t know the age of the gangsters and we shouldn’t care anyway. If it’s not ok to mention the very obvious race of the rioters, it should definitely be out of the question to fixate on their assumed age.
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