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.
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.
“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?”
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.
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.