This isn't a joke either, they genuinely believe this.
In the words of my dad "you were predestined to care too much about basically everything"
Anyone else have similar family "explanations" for their leftist views?
This is a dumb post but I'm stuck in bed sick and feverish, I have to kill time somehow.
Teach your kids empathy and equality
Continue to be shitty and greedy
Kids become communists
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So do they consider your "caring too much" a negative trait?
What does that say about them, and also, that's fucked.
So do they consider your “caring too much” a negative trait?
This is known as "The South Park Ideology"
The "logic" is that if you care too much that you spread yourself thin and shit. Like the fact that you care about multiple things means you are disingenuous, idk but that's how ghouls think. Caring about one or two things and giving those token efforts is good, but caring about all people makes you unreasonable and irrational.
Worst ever reddit Am I The Asshole post was the guy shaming and gaslighting his girlfriend for wearing Magic School bus style dresses to the school where she taught, with prints that related to the subject she was teaching.
Some people just don't appreciate what they got huh
That's such a cool thing to do even. I had a teacher in third grade where we read Rohld Dahl's The Witches and she implied throughout the year she was a witch and even dressed book appropriate for one (no opened toed or pointy shoes cause witches have square feet with no toes in the book etc). She fucking ruled and made at least two people from her class want to be teachers. Doing that extra stuff sticks
I had some pretty dope high school teachers, I adjusted to just treating them like people at work instead of an oppressive force and it really helped and got me a lot of leeway. Junior high was the bullshit years
My parents didnt want me to absorb liberal indoctrination in public school, so they sent me to a private high school where all the history teachers were explicit marxists and we read Huppert.
Based parents stopping you from becoming a liberal.
Also, what tf kind of school was that? Did they just happen to hire a bunch of Marxists?
Lib theology catholic school, most private schools in italy, summerhill in the uk, democratic schools in the us, etc.
Half of my family are fundamentalist Christian types who believe the rapture will happen in the next 10 years. They blame my political views on my "wealth" (I don't live somewhere rural now) and actual demons beguiling me. They also blame CNN, MSNBC, and Oprah even though I've never watched them.
The other part of my family is completely apolitical and doesn't perceive me as being different than a typical Democrat. My mother occasionally sends me text messages of stories from CNN and FoxNews about Biden doing this or that and she'll say "Look! He's a socialist just like you :)" (she means well but she's very confused).
My father says I'm a leftist because I liked playing with UFO toys as a kid. In his words it "expanded [my] mind."
Some of my coworkers think I'm in a phase that will subside by the time I'm 40. One thinks I'm the same thing as a qanon style conspiracy theorist because I've mentioned distrust in the CIA and stuff like Operation Northwoords and Rex 84. All my coworkers blame my liberal arts degree.
Some of my coworkers think I’m in a phase that will subside by the time I’m 40
I had a coworker tell me this one time. I was ten years older than him.
I was a goofy not very political libertarian type and then I moved to California and became a liberal. Then the internet made me a leftist. My family all think it was "Kommiefornia" and it's hilarious because I can't fucking stand how liberal California is now
I can’t fucking stand how liberal California is now
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Oh gosh, I hadn't thought about it but I bet my dad has incredibly condescending and dehumanizing explanations for why I am the way I am, eugh
You alright comrade? hope it's not covid, stay safe <3
I never understood the boomer attitude of not caring. Like holy shit dude, can you not see see that "not caring" is why the world is burning down around you? I will never get how they can be so devoid of taking any social responsibility for anything. Blows my mind.
Caring is what makes you human. Don't become a jaded drone that turns their brain off.
I heard a great argument recently that it's because they were born and raised during the peak of the cold war and told every day the world might end and they're all gonna die, and then nothing happened and their life went great so why give a shit ever
That makes sense, mine tend to say "it will all work out in the end" when confronted with anything too worrying. I see it as a way to avoid having to think or change anything. They got theirs, they're too old to deal with anything bad now so they just look after themselves and hope for the best. Sadly that attitude fucks up their kids futures and they don't want to acknowledge that, so they have to tell themselves that it will all magically be fine in the end.
I never get people who, when you talk about societal issues, say you "care too much". Like what? And you don't care? Or you think it's fine or normal to care less about things? That seems more obviously like the problematic stance to me?
My family says something like that. They believe there's a inherent balance between caring about yourself and caring about others and it can only work like a see-saw. Caring about others too much means you become gullible and you get taken advantage of, so you have to balance that out with only caring about others enough to a certain degree of scrutiny.
They also believe most people can get by with far less, less food, housing, etc.
i have the stronger political conviction of my whole family and i am mean as fuck talking so my family does not say that
hello me.
I yearn for a Thanksgiving where my family actually gives me the opportunity to shut down a shitty belief or conviction one of them holds but they're all spineless liberals
like my close family is fine but my extended family are kinda shitty but i have two sisters and my cousins and we make a united bloc if someone says some dumb shit on the table it is nice like they are outnumbered i will take all the heat because what the fuck they gonna do to me and we have to listen to way less sexist shit on the table on christmas which i enjoy a lot
My mum is a self-avowed communist (though she's only read Das Kapital - but that's more than most of you libs) and she's said loads of times that that must be the source of my own leanings.
I think it had the effect of instilling the socialist ethic in me as a child - treat others as yourself etc. - but I feel largely that my politics emerged from study - I was always reading stuff as a kid: boring encyclopaedias, scifi novels, history books yadda yadda.If anyone reads a sufficient amount, I reckon they asymptotically converge on historical materialism - actually then reading Marx and other theorists is what takes you the rest of the way over the threshold.
In college I became convinced that it's almost assured that if one does enough studying, eventually you have to confront Marxism unless you deliberately avoid it. The concepts and citations arise so frequently within history, literary studies, sociology, etc that even a cursory glance at them will at the very least skim the surface. So then you end up either confronting Marxism and finding it solidly irrefutable (or at the very least convincing enough to keep in mind), or you become like Jordan Peterson and confront the topic through a filter of right wing cranks
I always laugh at the "Marxist professors" line from conservatives. Had to take literary theory as a prereq and there was only the briefest, most facile discussion of interpreting via a Marxist lens. This was the semester after I had waited two hours in line to vote for Obama in 08 and was super stoked that he won. The quick disillusionment in Obama combined with some arguments with that professor got me thinking about leftist issues.
Biggest argument was when she said that the wizard/muggle thing was about race. When I suggested it was about class (Rowling was famously poor, wizards have all the power, basically have their own world, look down on non wizards, even people who make it in on their merits like Hermione aren't really accepted, etc, and also British books are always about class), it clearly had never occurred to her, and she just flatly dismissed it.
Tl;dr: arguing about Harry Potter put me on the path to leftist politics.
I know. They act like this is some rosetta stone for my life and everything I believe.
Apparently I subconciosly based everything on thr first show I ever liked, which means I'm also incredibly easily influenced.
My family thinks I was subtly brainwashed by secretly Marxist teachers (which, considering the school I went to, lmao)
Ah, mine has a side of ableism to it - I have been spending too much time with the mentally ill, and now their conspiracy theories have infected me!
That damn conspiracy theory about how society treats mental illness like shit and we can take better care of each other
It's pretty horrendous how much our culture hates people with mental illness.
I also watched Captain Planet as a kid and am a leftist, there might be something to it.
Same here. And if I'm being honest my first important exposure to the concept of ecology, as a kid, was definitely that show. That and possibly a few episodes of The Magic School Bus.
