No, children are learning this from their parents, but society as a whole is moving on from this, and some insular communities are getting butthurt over it. This is part of what’s fuelling their xenophobia, actually.
LillyPip
joined 2 years ago
No. I was legitimately shocked the first time I heard these things, as I switched schools.
I stayed shocked until today, though I’ve had to keep hearing it in my small town. For a while in the early 2000s, it got a bit better, but starting in 2016 it ramped up to 1980s levels again.
As a designer doing advertising work, a local bakery rebranded themselves and asked me in 2017 to redo their logo to Kathy’s Korner baKery, for instance. Of course I wouldn’t, but nobody would have asked me to do that before.
Back in the 80s/early 90s I would have seen shit like that, but not in the early to mid 2000s.
From my (very white girl) perspective, it seems some people have hit middle age and desperately want to return to their teens when that abhorrent behaviour was okay. Their personality has become wrapped up in it, and they think being asked to care about others is a judgement on their soul (it is, and they’re awful people), so they’re lashing out.
They don’t understand they can learn and grow, and instead feel everyone has turned against them, so they’re doubling down. It’s actually sad.
Ha, yeah, definitely not right wing. Pretty much the opposite.
He’s an evolutionary biologist. Here: Forrest Valkai YouTube.
He has many great videos on science and is really good at making science accessible. He’s fun to watch and is also a very kind and empathetic human being.
The GOP has spent decades and billions of dollars making sure most Americans have grown up not knowing how any of this works.
Everything is gonna come tumbling down very soon. Brace, y’all.
ICE is just going for their Glory to Arstotzka achievement.
These lunatics actually believe these fairytales about antichrists, demons, angels, end times, etc, and are powerful enough to get us all killed over it.
It’s bad enough they’re not willing to help humanity, they’re actively against doing that because of their stupid bronze-age fantasies. They could do so much good if they lived in reality but no, they’d rather use the most powerful positions on earth and more resources than anyone has ever controlled to fuck us all in the name of cultish idiocy.
It’s infuriating.
She drank the kool-aid.
This is what you get when you recruit ‘regular’ people into your fascist movement – they buy the bullshit that you’re ’for the people’ and ‘want to make things better for everyone’.
You get people who don’t know those are lies to appease the masses, and think you actually are for those things.
She really doesn’t understand what her party is for, and instead takes it for its facade. And she doesn’t understand this means she’s a circus clown.
Same. I haven’t seen him in much (Umbrella Academy most recently), but he seems to be a decent actor. Nothing to get excited about, but not a bad actor by any stretch. He’s better than average, imo. I don’t understand the hate.
Looking at his profile, I didn’t even know there was a Flatliners remake. Gonna have to go watch that now.
Those arms are clearly useless for anything but hugs.
I guess this is good, though it’s annoying that it’s unique enough to make a headline. This should be completely uncontroversial.