My mom is…I’ve talked about her before, and she’s not the brightest person…or best person…its a long story
But anyway recently she asked me if I was forced to talk about racism in my stem classes. Beyond a bit in the syllabi basically saying they try to be equitable or whatever its literally never come up. And then somehow she started getting pissy at me about it not being true. Like idk what to say to you.
Another bit, she read this book that i guess said there were like…social justice warriors or something trying to manipulate students…I think…idk my head started to hurt.
Like i try with her but she’s always convinced she’s the smartest person in the world when she’s very much not. I understand I inherited that too [at least to a certain extent] but its really hard to know where to start with her on stuff like that.
Edit: its “social justice fundamentalism,” from time urbans “what’s out problem?”
And I know I know i should be educating her but we dont exactly have the best relationship, especially around politics
God man, I hope your mom can turn around on it. It got my dad, and by proxy my mom, some time ago. Their Twitter addiction has turned them into some of the most hateful, poisonous people I know. It’s really incredible. Years ago, my dad was completely in favor of the BLM protests, wore shirts publicly showing his support in the deep guts of multiple red states. Said things like “Black people should be allowed to burn down cities they were forced to build” and “reparations are the only way to make us truly equal.” He was always hardline anticommunist, but there was at least real potential for him to become an anti-imperialist type. Once he installed Twitter it was over and he became mecha-hitler.