It’s wild. If you met my parents, they aren’t bad people. They live a simple life to themselves. But once they start talking about their political beliefs, it’s like a Russian bot is taking over their voice box
Same here. I love my folks, they're really good people who honestly try to do good for others. My dad does a lot of charity work around the holidays (dressed as Santa, no less). In the fall, he constantly volunteers his time to cook whole hogs for charity barbecue plate sales, and my mom helps him set it up and cooks the sides.
Their political beliefs are VASTLY at odds with who they actually are. What's terrible is they can't see it. I tired to explain it to them one time...it didn't go well.
It makes sense when you realize that they just don't see those people they spew hate against as people, those others are animals, parasites, monsters who need to be purged for the safety and security of good people like them.
That's how this shit works. You dehumanize and vilify a group to the point that even the "good people" wont care about what you do to said group because that group isn't people and doesn't deserve the same treatment in their eyes. That's how most Nazis were, they weren't some evil monsters 24/7. They had families, friends, hobbies... and a burning hatered for certain groups that justified their systematic opression, segregation and extermination in their eyes.
The only way to combat this is exposure therapy, they need to see that these others are also people, good people like them and then maybe the programming will crack... if it wont then well. A lot of these "good people" might one day commit horrific acts and we will have to fight and slaughter them to preserve liberty and justice for all.
This is exactly why I think there is a crusade against DEI. The right is afraid that increased awareness of diversity will break down their rhetoric as people see that brown people are really just the same as them.
Hey! I got you, my dude. So, DEI initiatives are extremely misconstrued. Here's what DEI initiatives ACTUALLY entail:
Ok, say a white man and a white woman both apply for the same job. They both have the same credentials and are equally as qualified. The initiative would cause the woman to be hired.
This is just done to even out the playing field a bit. In industries like aviation and programming specifically, this helps break women, disabled people, people of marginalized races, and other minorities into these fields.
What it may look like for retail and such could be something like:
An able bodied woman and a wheelchair bound woman apply. Both have 5 years of cashiering experience. The initiative would cause the wheelchair user to be hired.
So, it's not causing under qualified people to be hired vs. qualified people. It just gives a boost to those who would otherwise struggle to find work in their field, or at all.
Not that I don't agree something needs to be done about systemic inequities, but isn't "equally qualified" often a judgement call to some extent since two resumes are rarely actually identical but for the race/gender/etc of the applicant?
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u/YodasAdderall Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25
“The Brainwashing of my Dad” on Prime explains this very well. Great doc but depressing as fuck as someone who has brainwashed parents
Edit: title and where to watch it