My parents aren’t actually terrible people or anything, but I noticed some funny habits whenever I tell them about something I’ve been studying. One illustrative example was when I was telling one of them about COINTELPRO and the assassination (and character assassination) of multiple Black Panther Party leaders, they went like “oh I think there’s a movie about that”. This happens very often whenever I talk about some interesting historical event.
We are not even US-ian, but it feels like things have only happened to lots of people if Holywood made a movie about it. It is probably weirder for me because I don’t really watch any movies or TV.
Feels like “sure it is very interesting that some important historical event happened and led us to this current point in time, but did it get an Oscar?”
What are some weird capitalismpilled habits of not-horrible people you know that you have noticed?
And most of those movies rehabilitate the actual bad guys. Still, if you’ve also seen the movie, you can add a little, ‘and this is what really happened’. Or insist (with examples and am explanation) that these events cannot be understood I’m isolation. One of the propaganda functions of movies is to make it seem like capitalist atrocities are one offs or committed by a bad apple. Just don’t fall out with your family over it.
To answer your question:
- Seeing politics exclusively as party politics
- Thinking that either nothing can be done or that the solution is electoral
- Thinking that reforms will solve our problems
- Refusing to understand that Stalin is dead (I know, it’s hard to accept 😥) and so could have no control over a revolution today – i.e. they insist that socialism cannot work because they dislike the only example they think they understand; and fail to understand that a revolution means that they will be in power and can take whatever decisions they like.
Maybe these aren’t that weird. But they are tedious and annoying.
I feel like lots of liberals I know think a majority of homeless people are drug addled hopeless causes. They don’t hate them, but don’t think they can be helped. Won’t think of rent hikes as the larger cause, or the reality not a huge percent of people between homes are on drugs
Yes exactly. Partly I think they see homeless people as “not like them”, as “deserving causes” to be helped. Most of the time the reality is that homeless guy could have been their next door neighbour but for something awful that happened in the past.
Exactly. Most people don’t realize you are infinitely closer to being the homeless person than the billionaire exploiting them. A few bad events and suddenly the street is your best option. A few good events and maybe you can buy a house instead of rent
Meanwhile, most of the liberals I know are hooked on oxys, vicodin, tramadol, xanax, and everything else you need a crooked GP to over-prescribe for you.
Oh yeah, I know plenty of people abusing adderall, mdma, coke or what not, then turn around and judge some others for having the bad luck to get addicted to the wrong drug
My mother is a decent person but she thinks the Fr*nch shouldn’t protest the age of retirement increasing because “we did it” where I live. I explained that she’s still working with a broken body at her advanced age because of that decision and she just looked blankly at me. She couldn’t process how she’s actively getting fucked by the system because she can’t imagine any other way of operating the economy.
