I'm sorry you have to deal with this but it's really interesting to see this stuff. Really she's just down some rabbit hole like any other. It's like with anti-vax, they really genuinely believe vaccines are dangerous. It's not like they want people to get sick and die and they're misrepresenting
One line in that reel is interesting: "there is no context". But then going on to say that Islamists have been "colonising for 1400 years". If you have no grasp of the history, and deny there is any historical context, you're going to be misled
I once had a friend who was v. left wing but had no interest in Palestine He conceived of it as just being religious people fighting over territory and they'd always been doing it. We were all mystified but I guess he was just speaking from ignorance.
The things which seem obvious to us aren't obvious to the average person. It actually takes a lot of work to understand what is happening due to the complexity and amount of misinformation. I think even most people who are definitely anti-Israel would struggle to articulate why in a debate
i have to deal with this with my mom and i don’t know how to explain in a nice way that she’s kind of stupid but she had a brilliant neurodivergent son, thus we aren’t really on the same playing field intellectually and i don’t put much stock in her political acumen so i usually just don’t
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does she know these things happened