I'm the kid's stepmom..

I'm really distraught as to what I heard here this evening!

I was working from home and meanwhile I had 2 children yapping in my ears, one on each side..

And the older one (11) was talking about a youtuber..

And the younger one (8) suddenly went into full ragequit because "darkskinned people should not be on their tv (at their mom's house) because they should just be in their own country!" (aparantly the youtuber the 11 yo was talking about was darkskinned) and his ragequit went on for at least 15 minutes..

We live in a multicultural street in a multicultural city, we (husband and I) work with a lot of people with dark skin, we're not at all racist.. (not that the multicultural town/street/work is a guarantee, but I'm telling you, we're definitely not)

Ofcourse I told him that what he was saying wasn't nice and he should not be judging people on their skincolor, also because you don't know where they are born so our country is probably their country and he said.. Well they should just go back to the country where all people are thesame skincolor because this is OUR country😵

And I'm baffled.. He would never hear those things in our house!

So I asked the eldest (14).. Where he'd get such strong ideas.. And the eldest said he didn't know.. Probably youtube..

I mean.. I know they have hours and hours of unsupervised electronics time.. (at their mom's, so out of our control) But I can't imagine that an 8yo would watch such extremist video's on youtube? (in our house he has youtube kids, so I wouldn't know what he'd watch on regular youtube)

And I'm assuming since the siblings don't know where he gets those ideas.. They probably don't come from their mom, right? Not AS strong that he'd go into a 15 minute ragequit... (I also had to put him in timeout to have him stop)

What are your thoughts?

It really bothers me.. I don't know what to do with all this?

I'll have to talk to his dad about it either way.. But he's at work right now. (kids are in bed now so whatever will need to be done.. Is not for today..)