Sounds like my dad after he makes some horrible fascist comment about immigrants being scared or how he thinks black women are ugly or gay people are confused or something equally horrific and I open up about how shit really is bad for people that I know personally and his granddaughters are terrified.
Civility is often weaponized by fascists. They’ll say and do some horrible things… But they do it with a smile, or do so with an air of pseudo-intellectualism. Then when people reasonably get upset, they cry about people being uncivil and redirect the conversation. It’s a tool to avoid having to defend the indefensible things they say and do.
And the sad part is that a sizable part of the population sees that as a “win” for fascism. Because it allows them to paint their opponents as angry unreasonable shrieking maniacs. Lots of people don’t actually listen to the content of what is being said; They just listen to the vibes. And that pseudo-intellectualism and civility has the vibe-listeners thinking that the fascists are the reasonable ones.
in the case of interviews, these people often try to avoid answering straightforward questions.
the good thing is, they don’t have to give an answer. the absence of one also says something. the question is, what do the people think? they have to make up their minds.
“I just wanted a light-hearted conversation talking about my horrible views towards marginalized people and you’re over there bringing the mood down!”
My best friend’s dad will just randomly bring up the weirdest and most unrelated to the conversation attacks on even centrist institutions, like a joke he thinks is funny, but you mention something connected, especially if it’s in a more serious tone, and he’ll be like “what does that have to do with anything?”
Sounds like my dad after he makes some horrible fascist comment about immigrants being scared or how he thinks black women are ugly or gay people are confused or something equally horrific and I open up about how shit really is bad for people that I know personally and his granddaughters are terrified.
“Can’t we just talk about the good stuff?”
Fuck fascists
Arm yourselves they want you dead.
Civility is often weaponized by fascists. They’ll say and do some horrible things… But they do it with a smile, or do so with an air of pseudo-intellectualism. Then when people reasonably get upset, they cry about people being uncivil and redirect the conversation. It’s a tool to avoid having to defend the indefensible things they say and do.
And the sad part is that a sizable part of the population sees that as a “win” for fascism. Because it allows them to paint their opponents as angry unreasonable shrieking maniacs. Lots of people don’t actually listen to the content of what is being said; They just listen to the vibes. And that pseudo-intellectualism and civility has the vibe-listeners thinking that the fascists are the reasonable ones.
yeah, that matches my experience quite well.
in the case of interviews, these people often try to avoid answering straightforward questions.
the good thing is, they don’t have to give an answer. the absence of one also says something. the question is, what do the people think? they have to make up their minds.
“I just wanted a light-hearted conversation talking about my horrible views towards marginalized people and you’re over there bringing the mood down!”
My best friend’s dad will just randomly bring up the weirdest and most unrelated to the conversation attacks on even centrist institutions, like a joke he thinks is funny, but you mention something connected, especially if it’s in a more serious tone, and he’ll be like “what does that have to do with anything?”
Methinks your dad’s a wee bit bi
Me too tbh
Is he hot?
He’s old now but he used to be real good looking
Oh come on… Sometimes they\re midly funny: https://youtu.be/-iegYa6wTeg
Or not, come to think of it…
Looked at the comments. About what you’d expect.