I Found a Creepy List on My Son’s Laptop

This is a sign of mental illness in parents. Shocking. I haven't seen the equivalent of since Christian parents weren't letting their kids read Harry Potter books in the early 2000s because they discussed witchcraft.

" We found an excel spreadsheet in Jack’s folder that listed the names of all of his classmates, as well as dates and descriptions of their problematic behavior. Some of the descriptions I saw include “has a mom who is a cop,” “no pronouns in insta bio,” “laughed at a fat joke,” “lists problematic show as one of their favorites,” “mimicked a foreign accent,” and “used cis-normative language.”"

He is simply mirroring his parents worrying mental illness.

Is monitoring your kids for alt-right radicalization propaganda the new monitoring your kids for porn? Is this a common thing parents are worried about now?

When they say things like "Given the long history of white people policing Black existence, I question whether Jack is the right person to be taking on this task and whether it would be more appropriate coming from a BIPOC person." they're missing the point. It's not "appropriate" to keep annotated lists of every single behavior someone does that you don't like. This isn't adult men committing sexual harassment, it's teenagers with Instagram accounts.

Likewise, "On the other hand, I am proud of how committed he is to this cause and I don’t want to stop him from bearing witness to injustices within his own community." That's not what this is. It's a burn book.

The idea that they'd even consider support his doing if it weren't being concealed from them is absurd. This behavior shouldn't be normalized and will fix nothing.

I believe in and agree with most of the causes people consider to be under the umbrella of "social justice" (my post history will bear me out) and this is absolutely way past the mark of being OK.