It is much easier to agree to disagree when your uncle isn’t voting to strip you of your civil rights
Sighs this apathy for other people’s suffering is so tiring. “It doesn’t affect me negatively so it’s not worth shunning the imperialism-enabler” is not the moral victory this person seems to imply.
I’m so tired of this, how do we change it? Does anybody have advise that has worked on helping people find a sense of solidarity?
So far, I’ve tried leading off with “Stalin did nothing wrong. Wait, I take that back – he did three things wrong. He was problematic on LGBT rights, he stopped at Berlin, and he died. But other than that…” on my dear, sweet, lead-poisoned narcissist mother, but it didn’t work. She just kept babbling on about how RFK Jr. is going to make everyone healthy by banning Takis, and she somehow thinks I’m a Republican (and not the Irish kind) because I called out Joe Biden for repeatedly walking back student loan forgiveness.
We’re dealing with some uniquely fucked up people over here.
My grandparents aren’t even originally from the US, but they seem to have this very reductive “Democrat or Republican” false binary stapled in their mind. For this reason, back when I actually did talk to them, my grandparents would assume that I approve of every single policy Biden and Obama put in place because they thought that my opposition to the Republican party meant that I was staunchly in favor of Democrats.
assume that I approve of every single policy Biden and Obama put in place
The reactionaries in my family assume because I am vehemently opposed to the Republican party, I must be some kind of SJW libslur soyboy. Their brains short circuited when I said I was against gun control and actually knew things about guns. They got really pissed when I said “Guns are tools, not toys.”
They were so flabbergasted someone is against lowering taxes to cut education funding, then turn around and call Joe Biden a white supremacist. My “Mao did nothing wrong” jokes don’t land with this crowd, either.
Sighs this apathy for other people’s suffering is so tiring. “It doesn’t affect me negatively so it’s not worth shunning the imperialism-enabler” is not the moral victory this person seems to imply.
I’m so tired of this, how do we change it? Does anybody have advise that has worked on helping people find a sense of solidarity?
So far, I’ve tried leading off with “Stalin did nothing wrong. Wait, I take that back – he did three things wrong. He was problematic on LGBT rights, he stopped at Berlin, and he died. But other than that…” on my dear, sweet, lead-poisoned narcissist mother, but it didn’t work. She just kept babbling on about how RFK Jr. is going to make everyone healthy by banning Takis, and she somehow thinks I’m a Republican (and not the Irish kind) because I called out Joe Biden for repeatedly walking back student loan forgiveness.
We’re dealing with some uniquely fucked up people over here.
My grandparents aren’t even originally from the US, but they seem to have this very reductive “Democrat or Republican” false binary stapled in their mind. For this reason, back when I actually did talk to them, my grandparents would assume that I approve of every single policy Biden and Obama put in place because they thought that my opposition to the Republican party meant that I was staunchly in favor of Democrats.
The reactionaries in my family assume because I am vehemently opposed to the Republican party, I must be some kind of SJW libslur soyboy. Their brains short circuited when I said I was against gun control and actually knew things about guns. They got really pissed when I said “Guns are tools, not toys.”
They were so flabbergasted someone is against lowering taxes to cut education funding, then turn around and call Joe Biden a white supremacist. My “Mao did nothing wrong” jokes don’t land with this crowd, either.
Four. He also supported the creation of Israel.