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My mother, the only family that I have left that I will talk to sent me a text asking if any other cities will have a "radical Islamist" mayor. I ignored it because I could not find the words to explain that what she described isn't a thing without destroying the one connection to my family I have left.
"You really will believe anything they tell you"
Has 24-hour TV news cycle running in the background during phone calls
Fox News isn't TV news...
By their own admission, they're "entertainment".
Lol "radical islamist" who supports LGBT rights?
(actual "radical islamists" would be anti LGBT)
Yes just like radical Christians, radical Muslims don't like anything gay, female etc. There is a reason in some Middle Eastern countries women can't go outside without a man "protecting" them.
And attends pub crawls.
Oh the right wing have a response to that. Its a Muslim tactic called Takia, apparently. You deceive and manipulate people to push your sharia agenda or something. PBDs friends were coping about it:
40 mins in
(My spouse is a professor so the full spectrum of media gets played. Some of its awful, sometimes I feel my brain leaking out of my ears)
He's a "radical, Muslim" not a "radical muslim" :D
I’m so sorry about that.
It's always strange to me whenever I hear people describe their relationships with their family members the way you would describe an ongoing argument with a troll baiting you in a youtube comments' section.
I mean... she sent that to you apropos of nothing? Not even "How are the kids/How's your job"? Just to get a reaction out of you?
I don't understand modern-day American nuclear "family" dynamics at all...
That's fucked up and sad. But maybe try to engage in an educated discussion to change her mind?
If a TV was able to "educate" her on what "radical islamist" is, surely a daughter should be able to convince own mother, with educated facts, on what it isn't.
Shutting down discussions like this lets propaganda win and spread.
Your mom is gonna spread that shit to all her contacts, but if you put at least a small doubt in her mind, she might decide to keep it to herself at least.
Fucking bitch.
Drop that nazi bitch and find a better family.
Sometimes in the real world, there's this thing we have to exercise called "nuance." She is 85 with heavy dementia and has nothing to do but watch TV in the nursing home. No, I won't drop the only person that still gives a shit about me because her mind is mostly gone and is stressed that she is being told that she won't have anywhere to live in a month. I'm going to be in that situation myself in a couple weeks.