#before hearing them parrot misinformation and shit they’ve heard from far right content creators on youtube | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

jammmbi · 5 months ago

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for a man who refuses to vote and claims to not be interested in politics past ranting about how fucked we are and how everyone in government is corrupt my dad sure does watch a fuck ton of right-leaning youtube content

#and i get to sit and listen to it ! yippee !!#another reason i need to move out #i can’t keep sitting and listening to this #and god forbid i give my two cents and add in a comment about some of the dangerous rhetoric he’s listening to #i get me with a ‘everyone’s unfairly biased’ or a ‘that’s not what he’s saying’ or ‘how is that different from this?’#insert completely different and irrelevant scenario #and anytime i try to counter the misinformation and give another perspective i’m met with basically #‘well you have your beliefs and i have mine and i have my sources’#what’s WORSE is getting hit with the ‘we’re glad you’re passionate and stand up so strongly for your beliefs’#before hearing them parrot misinformation and shit they’ve heard from far right content creators on youtube #if i get passionate or emotional they get defensive and shut me down #if i combat with facts and point out other areas to look at they brush me off #there’s no way for me to have them see my side or other perspectives fairly so at this point i fuckin give up #at this point i just can’t even be around them recreationally unless i know they’re doing something else #and MAN if i mentioned half the shit i saw and read on a daily basis ? they wouldn’t believe me or they’d doubt me immediately #but then when i challenge them im wrong and defensive #‘we’re proud of you for standing up for yourself and challenging complex ideas but not when it’s against us !’

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