Sounds like my dad after he makes some horrible fascist comment about immigrants being scared or how he thinks black women are ugly or gay people are confused or something equally horrific and I open up about how shit really is bad for people that I know personally and his granddaughters are terrified.
“I just wanted a light-hearted conversation talking about my horrible views towards marginalized people and you’re over there bringing the mood down!”
My best friend’s dad will just randomly bring up the weirdest and most unrelated to the conversation attacks on even centrist institutions, like a joke he thinks is funny, but you mention something connected, especially if it’s in a more serious tone, and he’ll be like “what does that have to do with anything?”
Civility is often weaponized by fascists. They’ll say some horrible things… But they do it with a smile, or have an air of pseudo-intellectualism when they say it. Then when people reasonably get upset, they cry about people being uncivil and redirect the conversation. It’s a tool to avoid having to defend the indefensible things they say.
in the case of interviews, these people often try to avoid answering straightforward questions.
the good thing is, they don’t have to give an answer. the absence of one also says something. the question is, what do the people think? they have to make up their minds.
Sounds like my dad after he makes some horrible fascist comment about immigrants being scared or how he thinks black women are ugly or gay people are confused or something equally horrific and I open up about how shit really is bad for people that I know personally and his granddaughters are terrified.
“Can’t we just talk about the good stuff?”
Fuck fascists
Arm yourselves they want you dead.
Oh come on… Sometimes they\re midly funny: https://youtu.be/-iegYa6wTeg
Or not, come to think of it…
Looked at the comments. About what you’d expect.
“I just wanted a light-hearted conversation talking about my horrible views towards marginalized people and you’re over there bringing the mood down!”
My best friend’s dad will just randomly bring up the weirdest and most unrelated to the conversation attacks on even centrist institutions, like a joke he thinks is funny, but you mention something connected, especially if it’s in a more serious tone, and he’ll be like “what does that have to do with anything?”
Civility is often weaponized by fascists. They’ll say some horrible things… But they do it with a smile, or have an air of pseudo-intellectualism when they say it. Then when people reasonably get upset, they cry about people being uncivil and redirect the conversation. It’s a tool to avoid having to defend the indefensible things they say.
yeah, that matches my experience quite well.
in the case of interviews, these people often try to avoid answering straightforward questions.
the good thing is, they don’t have to give an answer. the absence of one also says something. the question is, what do the people think? they have to make up their minds.
Methinks your dad’s a wee bit bi
Me too tbh
Is he hot?
He’s old now but he used to be real good looking