I've known plenty of 
but when it comes to being scratched about it, it has to be my old neighbor that lived just down the road at the intersection, one of the first to buy (and performatively loop around the neighborhood with) a Te$la.
I had the misfortune of running into him at the bookstore, and he had this sort of eager "oh boy I'm going to blow your mind" look on his face as he saw me at the tables by the obligatory coffee shop inside.
"Isn't it insane what's happening out there?"
"What?"
"The looney left! They're out of control! I mean... you know it's bad when the most philanthropic human on the planet says they're out of control."
"Oh..."
"Yeah that's right! ELO~N has to take a stand or no one will! I don't want to be stuck living in a mud hut just so I don't hurt someone's feelings!"
"Oh it's your turn. She's trying to take your order."
Anyone who is ostensibly for socialist policies but turns into Little Hitler about homeless people.
Damn right.
Same deal with smug Euros (and Euroboos) that present themselves as enlightened progressives but then lose their shit about Romani people.
My mom is a Jewish Russian-American, 3rd generation, granted, but she regularly brings up her Russian heritage in weird self-flagellation shows of devotion to the State Department. If anything reminds her that Putin exists, anything at all, she goes on long genocidal rants about how Russians are evil and there's something wrong with their brains - to prove she's not a hypocrite she then says she'd volunteer to be executed herself if that was the only way to get rid of all Russians.
I pointed out that she is - verbatim - repeating Nazi rhetoric about people they tried to exterminate, and my mother, who, again, is Jewish on top of ethnically Russian, starts going in circles about how no, PUTIN is the next Hitler, because Russians are evil, we're evil, oh my god we're so evil, what is WRONG with us?!
Rachel Maddow has turned my mother into a hysterical gibbon and I don't know how to fix it.
My mom has the same heritage, but her internalized shame isn't as bad as your mom's. I try to explain that the things she doesn't like are largely a consequence of capitalism being imposed on the former USSR, but it doesn't really stick.
A boomer who had spent the past half hour of the car ride talking about how much he related to Buddhist concepts of compassion mentioned that he thought the homeless people behind his house had stolen his telescope, so he wanted to give them IV drugs coated in rat poison
A boomer who had spent the past half hour of the car ride talking about how much he related to Buddhist concepts of compassion mentioned that he thought the homeless people behind his house had stolen his telescope, so he wanted to give them IV drugs coated in rat poison
Oh wow, just hear this thing!It's less severe than that by far, but I remember one particular book store coffee lord (the kind that sort of come there to sit around with overpriced coffee all day to lord over everyone with their very smartness) that said something like "I have visited my shaman enough times and have received enough ayahuasca to know that there is a piece of ultimate truth in all world religions... except boody-hism."
That's what he called it. Boody-hism. Not sure why he singled that one out for not having any ultimate truth in it.
That should be a sitcom.
"You say you relate to Buddhist concepts of compassion."
"Yeah."
"But you want to poison people with rat poison."
"Yeah. The homeless people behind my house stole my telescope."
"Do you see the problem?"
"What problem?"
"Let's start again. You say you relate to..."
I had someone tell me that I am not voting for Kamala Harris because
thankfully I'm not AmericanI don't care about politics and I've led a comfortable life free from hardship and marginalisation.Wanna know my lore? [CW: child abuse, animal abuse, violence etc. ahead]
I grew up poor. Never poor enough that I didn't have shoes on my feet or food in my stomach but enough that keeping the house at a comfortable temperature was often a luxury.
I'm queer. My dad is a violent homophobe who used to be part of a neo-Nazi street gang that would beat up gay men for sport in his younger years. You better believe that he would grill me and conduct minor inquisitions to "ensure" that I wasn't gay. He used to be addicted to heroin and as a young person would torture animals for fun. He also came close to some big charges for violence later in life. So, zero empathy to speak of with this character. If that's painting a very particular picture then yeah.
Suffice it to say that it wasn't a peaceful household I grew up in and it wasn't a safe one either.
As for my mum, being married to someone like that, you'd have to be pretty messed up and that was certainly the case for her who very much has an undiagnosed personality disorder. There was low-moderate grade medical abuse coming from that side of the nuclear family. Never enough to be at that threshold for direct outside intervention but definitely enough that it wasn't just a few little whoopsies which happened over the years either.
On top of this I went undiagnosed for ADHD and autism for all of my childhood, well into my adulthood, and I've had to become my own case manager and advocate and (if you've ever seen me post about medical stuff then you're probably already aware) my own armchair physician too. Autistic monotropism has its perks, I suppose. I got dealt a pretty bad hand but I'm extremely fortunate that one of the cards I got dealt was to be intelligent because that's been just about my only saving grace.
I had a very-near miss with homelessness not too long ago as well.
I'm not trying to make this a pity party or anything but I'm just illustrating that my life has been an ongoing struggle and to tell the kid who grew up with the very real prospect of either facing homelessness, as the good outcome, or the credible threat of being provided a swift dirt nap if their dad ever found out about their sexuality that they have lived a cushy life free from marginalisation and oppression which is why they don't take politics seriously... that's pretty absurd.
The instinctive urge for this scratched liberal to immediately presume that because I'm not Blue MAGA that therefore I've never done it tough is kinda wild because it was an attempt to strip me of my identity and to deny the struggles I have faced. Their ability to empathise or even just to listen short circuited the moment that they deemed me guilty of the highest treason, of holding a differing opinion.
This sort of dehumanisation and vilification of a person simply because they don't agree with your particular brand of politics is peak-scratched liberal imo.
I don’t want to be stuck living in a mud hut just so I don’t hurt someone’s feelings!
Wut? What does this have to do with political correctness?
The talking heads to get their CHUD audience into a frothing blind rage do so via "implication." They don't outright state anything too specific that will happen with "woke wins" but they will let their audience use their imaginations to come up with the worst things they can think of.
Wut? What does this have to do with political correctness?
I saw something like that brought up on Youtube comments for "Whitey on the Moon" recitations: white techbros have this belief that if society has the slightest consideration for disadvantaged people that it will somehow catastrophically halt and reverse all technological progress.
continues that claim daily on Le Epic X and claims DEI will destroy society accordingly.
I've had libs/chuds/suburbanites very confidently tell me that everyone who lives in cities would die in an apocalypse because the rural farms wouldn't, like, give them food, etc. Very obviously false if you've ever worked in rural health or rural anything honestly. If I get the chance again I'll ask why they think cities are where they are. I usually disengage or deflect right away though because it's basically a convo about zombie movies.
"Dae what is your zombie apocalypse survival plan?" memes were cryptofascist signaling all along and I hated that fad.
My hippie-turned-Christian-fundamentalist mother re: gay people
I'm not sure I'd count christian fundamentalists as liberals no matter how they got there
She used to be tho. She kind of is the clown putting on makeup meme in reverse
