I Found a Creepy List on My Son’s Laptop

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A letter to Slate's parenting advice column:

We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites, so our kids share a laptop that we monitor and control access to. 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.”

Is this for real?! My gut tells me the writer is trolling the column, but it's very hard to tell nowadays when somebody is taking the piss or not!

[Mr Daniel F. O'Leary]

The parent's concern about her child is probably real. Haven't heard about "Trying to wind the journos with fake problems" before, tbh.