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I blame facebook for a lot of that. I see it as a symptom of that website, rather than a symptom of my parents true underlying beliefs.
Sure, everyone has some racist/conspiracy bullshit that they shamefully believe to some degree, but facebook heavily normalised it and echoed it to make them believe that it was okay to believe these things.
Oh definitely it's terrifying how good the algorithm is at sucking people in and dumping them in an echo chamber where only those awful views are normalised.