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How to guide righteous anger away from destructive channels

My teenager is getting radicalized online by people who share his anger about injustice but channel it toward hate, and I don't know how to redirect his passion without dismissing his legitimate rage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent must distinguish between justified anger at systemic problems and dangerous responses to that anger when both emerge from accurate observations about injustice.

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