I have 2 GOP parents, one that voted Trump originally and one that did not. Over the last 9 years, I have watched them both travel down the MAGA pipeline to become visibly fascist. The parents who taught me racism was wrong and to have empathy for others, have become openly hostile about immigrants, Muslims, and even parrot the Nazi “great replacement” theory.
Part and parcel with this, they refuse to have any discussions about the facts – like immigrants not stealing and eating people’s pets. They won’t hear it, they won’t even engage in the conversation…they just get angry and loud the second they hear anything that doesn’t fit into the Fox News narrative. Can you relate? How are you dealing with it in your relationships with your parents?
the world is learning how important a healthy independent media cycle is, right now as it is going extinct with no sign of returning. it’s the thing that defines all of the average person’s opinions and values.
Rely depressing how so many people just…don’t think
I can’t tell you how many times I was ignorant of a topic and spent 10-15 minutes learning about it then see hordes of people on reddit or facebook asking other people about it or spreading misinformation about the most basic things cause they’re incapable or unwilling to spend 10-15 minutes learning about it.
there’s plenty of studies which point to the fact that exposure to media is indeed irrelevant to determine political opinions.
Is that the one that tried to get democrats to support the gaza genocide? Or did you have a better one in mind?
why would you think this
No, that’s not at all what they stated, or even implied, from my perception.
At this point, for example, a healthy media would be calling Israel’s actions what they have been determined to be, by experts in the field: A right wing state engaged in a genocide. Several parts of the UN have determined it, as well as a number of independent human rights organizations.
Additionally, the same would apply to all countries, just in case someone is thinking I’m just anti-Israel, or anti-US… China should be called out by all news outlets for their human rights abuses. Britain should be called out for their trampling of human rights too. Same goes for India, Canada, Australia, Germany, Austria, France, etc.
I endlessly have to correct people, both the ignorant and the malicious. I’m not pro-hamas or anti-israel, I’m anti-genocide regardless of who the victim is and regardless of who the perpetrator is.