I probably will. They know I think it after many discussions but I haven’t said it. They are so dug in they won’t change or actually hear me. I’ve publicly called out their covid is a democrat conspiracy Facebook posts and unfriended (before leaving Facebook myself). I have told them to remember that I warned them 12 years ago that they are going down a path that’s on the wrong side of history
I get it, I’ve cut contact with my mother quite a few years ago.
She always was into wild conspiracy shit and there’s a history of mental issues but I did not realize fully how antisemitic it all was until the refugee crisis started and far right disinfo was absolutely everywhere. Here in Germany you basically cannot go into any comment section of a video or news article of certain topics, without it being completely brigaded by far right trolls pushing their narratives.
Needless to say that she got worse and worse since then and eventually I noticed how much it affected me and my own mental health to experience this, so I had to look after myself and basically cut her loose, since I struggled with my own issues already.
I can’t take care of her and somewhat “ground” her in reality when it takes such a heavy toll on myself, while she still continues to go down that route. It’s sad, but ultimately you can’t help those who do not really want the help.
“Loyalist” would probably hurt more. Especially once you remind them that the loyalists were fighting against the patriots, thereby excluding them from being patriotic Americans.
Seems likely it’s similar. Aquote from a book I think everyone should read has been stuck in my head for years:
In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off.
By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.
Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
Is this what the Nazi Germany looked like in the 1930s?
I’ve come to realize that my parents would be Nazi supporters in 1930s Germany
Tell them to their face.
I probably will. They know I think it after many discussions but I haven’t said it. They are so dug in they won’t change or actually hear me. I’ve publicly called out their covid is a democrat conspiracy Facebook posts and unfriended (before leaving Facebook myself). I have told them to remember that I warned them 12 years ago that they are going down a path that’s on the wrong side of history
I get it, I’ve cut contact with my mother quite a few years ago. She always was into wild conspiracy shit and there’s a history of mental issues but I did not realize fully how antisemitic it all was until the refugee crisis started and far right disinfo was absolutely everywhere. Here in Germany you basically cannot go into any comment section of a video or news article of certain topics, without it being completely brigaded by far right trolls pushing their narratives. Needless to say that she got worse and worse since then and eventually I noticed how much it affected me and my own mental health to experience this, so I had to look after myself and basically cut her loose, since I struggled with my own issues already. I can’t take care of her and somewhat “ground” her in reality when it takes such a heavy toll on myself, while she still continues to go down that route. It’s sad, but ultimately you can’t help those who do not really want the help.
“Loyalist” would probably hurt more. Especially once you remind them that the loyalists were fighting against the patriots, thereby excluding them from being patriotic Americans.
No, the Nazis were better dressed
noopnoop said “got dayum” to that one.
Seems likely it’s similar. Aquote from a book I think everyone should read has been stuck in my head for years:
Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45