• GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    I know people who got more bigoted when their brains stopped working well. Everything else aside about how horrific this whole thing is, it just wouldn't work. But I guess that's liberalism for you.

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      My grandfather was an old-school theory-reading M-L and when we listened to the news on his kitchen radio he'd always have good takes about world events, strongly internationalist and anti-racist.

      When he was no longer able to take care of himself he moved to a nursing home, and dementia took away his reasoning, made him distrust the non-white nursing staff, for example.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        exactly. I've heard old people who were kind of racist go to full Muslims can't be let in the country levels when their brain just stops being elastic.