It’s so sad
This is definitely a real thing for the boomer brainworm crowd. They scream that anyone to the left of Marco Rubio is a pedophile and then are shocked—shocked!—that their kids don’t want to expose their grandkids to that.
My boomer parents are wisely playing both sides. For example, they brag that their grandkids are getting homeschooled. They get Facebook Social Credit from their friends who are so happy that these kids will be avoiding the Woke Agenda. (Ha, haha, ahahahahahahaha)
“Don’t worry, we’re not teaching them any of that liberal shit” (because the curriculum is communist )
Why was Salvador Allende overthrown by popular revolt:
A). Because he rigged the election
B). Because his corruption was exposed
C). Because his socialist economic policies caused long lines, destroyed countless businesses, and made wealthy or middle class Chileans to flee the country.
Correct answer is C.
It’s strange isn’t it. Did I grow in up absolute privilege or have things changed that much? By privilege, I mean, all my grandparents were normal people. They likely had some crap takes and we had mild disagreements over the years. But they didn’t go around swearing and using slurs (not just not in front of children) and there was a consensus that Nazis are bad and maybe racism and bigotry are bad too (albeit couched in liberalism).
It’s crazy to see what western material conditions from circa 1950–2003 did to western minds. For anyone who needs evidence of the overdetermination of the economic base, this might be it.
Yeah I genuinely lack the imagination to picture parents who aren’t saying slurs every other word. It seems like every white person around my parents’ age is like that with incredibly rare exceptions.
I’ve seen it come in two varieties, ambient and active. My dad is ambient. He’ll complain about black people and the state of the world, but it’s incoherent and when pushed on it, he’ll shut up, but it’s still there in him. My mother is active, every 5 minutes she has to complain about the existence of Latino people or how Trump should be king of America. She’ll bring it up no matter what is going on. She taught me the n-word before I had ever seen a black person for the first time. Actually deranged people.
“my kids became adults, realized im a shit human, and now i can’t see my grandbabies! and that angers the narcissist in me because I only had children for selfish reasons.”
my kids became adults, realized im a shit human, and now i can’t see my grandbabies!
I mean, I wish this was more the case. But as often as not, its simply because the Millennial generation has needed to move across the country to find good work. I know more than a few chud grandparents who get plenty of grandkid time purely on the basis of free childcare being worth its weight in gold. I know more than a few based woke grandparents who never see their grandkids simply because they live on the east coast and the grandkids live out west. Increasingly, you’ll see grandparents move halfway across the country to be closer to family. Or you’ll see kids moving back in and forming extended households, entirely because of the cost of real estate.
Even the worst politics can be forgivable, even the best negligible, when material conditions are a concern.
i was just working off the meme and the grandparent who made that probably is a shit person if they have to “make up” with their kids. Obviously there are other reasons a grandparent can’t see their kid for valid or geographical reasons. My own parents are stupid as fuck conservative catholics but they aren’t complete twats about it so they see their grandkids and kids with no problems. Their debates they would have with me(the only commie) would anger me in the past, but now it just makes me laugh.
the grandparent who made that
Idk, man. That could easily have been cooked up in Ben Shapiro’s basement.
My own parents are stupid as fuck conservative catholics but they aren’t complete twats about it so they see their grandkids and kids with no problems.
That’s generally the norm. Political views vary but families tend to stick together purely because they know and empathize with one another more than phantom third parties that they pretend their personal politics impacts.
My adoptive parents bought me so my adoptive mother would have control over my wedding/baby shower and what children I have and she wouldn’t risk being alone on holidays when her biological children (all sons) get married.
They’ve been so much worse to me after I told them I’m not having kids because now they wasted money on buying and raising me
“Transactional” thinking, such as seeing people they’re supposed to nurture and raise and protect out of love and see it as some kind of “investment” with expected returns, is poison, the death of love and meaningful emotional connections.
I wish there was a way to see it a long ways off to avoid those empty-inside fucks, forever.
Man I fucking feel for you guys in this thread. My parents are just well-meaning libs who immediately cave when I apply pressure. Like when JK Rowling was first getting onto her bullshit and I whipped out an “actually my friend is trans and you knew her pre-transition” it basically blew the transphobia out of them like a shotgun blast. I’d rent my parents out to you guys if I could so you could have a couple old academic libs to very lightly dunk on with the understanding that they are still trying to figure out a confusing world even in old age.
Edit: I should add that I empathize because growing up in the South, most of my friends had the parents you describe and I was pretty familiar with how unstable it made them feel at home.
Yeah I’m literally in the process of trying to figure out how to stay in contact with my father but cut off all communications with my mother. She’s gone off the deep end. Any conversation with her centers around her racist hatred of Mexicans. She always wants to tell me highly exaggerated and likely fabricated stories of encounters with Mexicans she’s had. The woman carries a switchblade and always grasps for it in her purse if she sees someone with too dark of a complexion. I can’t be in public with her because if she hears a single word of Spanish around her, her eyes get wide and she’ll start muttering to herself about how “Mexicans should all go back.”
We live in Texas, so often these people aren’t even from Mexico. It’s just Latinos, mostly people born in Texas in the first place.
She’s super into Trump as well, obviously, but she’s one of the odd ones who is also pro-vaccine, so at least she has that. She worships the British royal family too…and is also somehow an advocate for Irish decolonization (she claims we have Irish ancestry even though as far as I can tell our family came from Poland)
I already disowned one outright fascist parent (as in, actively and out loud wishing murder-by-police on for even existing in the same city), but while trying to maintain contact with the other, that enabling parent tricked me into meeting with the fascist parent again after years of no contact.
Oops, two disownings.
Absolutely based but it’s still sad. I wish your parents didn’t suck so much that it’s necessary.
I never wanted that but I’m much happier with my in-laws so there’s plenty of company for the holidays.
That’s so funny LMAO these people are real?? Like I know people that are casually racist or two-faced racist, but I’ve never met someone that goes berserk at hearing Spanish. I’d want to see her if she wouldn’t stab me 😂
