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
If your parents are Gen X, as are mine, and they grew up in either a poor urban environment (or just anywhere in the third world), odds are, that they are (through no fault of their own) very likely LITERALLY not as intelligent as you, purely down to childhood lead exposure. From all the research that’s been done, it results in people who are generally less intelligent, irritable, arrogant and argumentative, and I personally have dealt with this in likely some of it’s most extreme in the case of my family. My parents generation are all abhorrent, whereas my grandparents, and my siblings/cousins are all remarkably level headed and empathetic people. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but I’d rather it be out of my control than for me to waste my energy getting 50+ year old racists, transphobes, and zionists in my family to come around.