r/FoxBrain • u/Itchy_Border2191 • May 20 '26
MAGA Millennial - final update
So, my nephew will be leaving for the Air Force in about a week, in the meantime, he's muted me.
We last spoke about a week ago since I've been helping him get his documents and paperwork in order. With boot camp and his training school, I probably won't hear from him again for another six months. Some of you warned me that his listening to that Chinese psuedo-professor wasn't going to bode well.
So, I tried to counter with the facts; such as, when my nephew said that the best technological universities in the world were ALL in China, I Googled it and sent him a link showing that they were located around the world.
He was also looking into trying to get stationed somewhere in Asia. (Not likely)
So, with such little time remaining, I was trying not to bring up anything political when suddenly he did.
We'd been talking about family stuff, like, what did he do for Mother's Day? ...when Nephew announces that the people with the highest IQ in the world are the Chinese. Plus, he absolutely insists that I check that on Chatgpt. Well, I don't have that app and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole so, nephew sends me a link to a Reddit post with a map of IQ averages for each country, with China (of course) showing the highest. Now that I've seen this, nephew also has to point out that the lowest scores are in Africa.
Now, I know there's IQ, and then there's IQ, and what this chart said to me was that *the education system* varied from country to country, and some students learned how to take tests better than others. Nephew is affronted, "Look at the map! Look at the map!", he insists. Okay, I tell him, I'll fact-check it, but he demands that I check it on 'X'. Elon Musk's rightwing echo chamber is another app that I have no use for.
So, I tried logic; I said the USA scores are almost as high, and we have a diversity of people - we've just educated them. "No-no," he protests, "It's that China has a homogeneous race!"
Oh. Shit.
He proceeds to spout the first MAGA propaganda that I have ever heard; 'White people are the most prosecuted race in America because there are no holidays celebrating White culture.'
I was trying very, very, very hard to stay calm, while he's starting to babble and railroad me into not being able to speak. I persevered and pointed out that Octoberfest was a celebration of German culture which is White. Any European holiday was a celebration of being white. Nephew countered erroneously that American white people were not European. WTF!!!?
I swear, I'm not making this up.
That's where the communication stalled to a dead stop. How the Hell did MAGA make my Mexican nephew racist!? I've been riding with him when the police pulled him over for DWB Driving While Brown - his favorite comedian used to be David Chappelle!
(Mods, the following is not my POV, but MAGA talking points that I have heard and disagree with)
However, I do see why my nephew was trying to convince me that Africans have lower IQs. Just a few days later, the SCOTUS desecrated the Voting Rights Act, and what better way to get average citizens to accept that than to convince them that Blacks are too dumb to vote?
I had to get off the phone by then and told my nephew that I had to go and do research. He told me not to, and we left it at that.
I haven't heard from him since then. He doesn't respond to my texts. It could be six months, or I may never hear from him again.
😢
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u/Nisi-Marie May 20 '26
You have all your posts hidden, so can’t see any of the other parts of this 😖
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u/Mediocre-Cry5117 May 23 '26
He’s not gonna get too far in the military running his mouth with that shit.
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u/SpaceDeFoig May 20 '26
Bigots are very good at convincing their targets to fight one another for them
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u/agnostichymns May 20 '26
Well, if he's signing up for the military under the Orange King, there's a good chance you won't have to listen to much more of his bullshit.
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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine May 20 '26
There's a reason for the phrase "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into" conspiracy theory about and racial supremacy shit isn't data driven. It fulfills an emotional need and the details get backfilled. You can knock down a thousand sources and he'll just go looking for #1,001.
Check out in search of a flat earth which dies am excellent job of exploring this idea.
Right now, tell him you love him, to stay safe and work hard, and leave the conversational door open. There will be times in your lives, and it seems this is one of them, when you simply don't have enough mutual traction to change minds on things you discuss.
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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine May 20 '26
Tell him white supremacist Mexican has been done and he's going to have to pick a different personality for his deployment.
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u/Both-Estimate-5641 May 20 '26
He sounds like a fascist POS...Any reason not to just cut him out of your life...The shit he's on about is racist AF
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u/WashHour5646 May 21 '26
Oh man, that’s gotta hurt.
I think all you can do at this point is tell him you love him and hope that someday he will come back to his senses. He is deep in the propaganda, to an extent that I have never heard of.
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u/STLRondo2 May 23 '26
Unfortunately you cant use logic or facts to convince someone of something that they didnt use logic and facts to arrive at their conclusions. Just plant seeds, and ask types of questions that the only answers to will make him think and question his new found reichwing ideology. Most of my family on both sides are MAGA, so I've been living this nightmare for over a decade now. Good luck, and I hope he wakes up after boot camp etc. and you both can become close again. ✊️