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I came across a twitter thread and an interesting, and sad, post about Fox News' brainwashing has effected the family relationships of lots of people. Thought it was interesting enough to share here: https://luke.substack.com/p/i-hate-what-theyve-done-to-almost-39f
And I'm happy this blight hasn't taken root in Norway yet...
Two random examples from the blog post:
And I'm happy this blight hasn't taken root in Norway yet...
Two random examples from the blog post:
the blog post said:I met my mom for dinner last night. Somehow it ends up on politics and yeah, my mom's now a big racist, shaking in her boots at the word “socialism.” We also agreed to the no politics thing, but she's a big time Facebooker. Inevitably she'll say something dumb from a meme or some horsehocky and I'll just have to go off again.
I don't think she was always like that. I know she was a Bush person, but I don't think she has always had such interpersonally toxic beliefs. It's been at least since 2014, because I remember hearing her say something ignorant about Ferguson and having a physical reaction to it.
My instinct is to challenge her and try to “educate” her but then the response is “you're calling your mother a racist?” and that type of question just makes it hard to say anything, especially to my mother.
the blog post said:I was raised by a strong pro-choice feminist mother, who now tells me “cute stories” that happen on The Five, the horsehockey Fox daytime show, loves Trump, and thinks abortion should be illegal after six weeks. Depressing doesn’t even cover it. You can’t break through that wall of horsehocky.
I grew up in a house where we openly talked politics. Now, it’s noticeably absent from our conversations. She actually said that she hopes my daughter, who is four, grows up to be conservative. When I said “absolutely not,” she seemed truly baffled. Their brains are rotting on this stuff.
I will say that whenever she spends time with my minority friends she seems to temporarily soften on the racist stuff, then she goes back to Texas and watches a few hours of Fox and it’s back to “normal.”