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People whose parents have become fascist, how are you dealing with it? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I have 2 GOP parents, one that voted Trump originally and one that did not. Over the last 9 years, I have watched them both travel down the MAGA pipeline to become visibly fascist. The parents who taught me racism was wrong and to have empathy for others, have become openly hostile about immigrants, Muslims, and even parrot the Nazi "great replacement" theory.

Part and parcel with this, they refuse to have any discussions about the facts -- like immigrants not stealing and eating people's pets. They won't hear it, they won't even engage in the conversation...they just get angry and loud the second they hear anything that doesn't fit into the Fox News narrative. Can you relate? How are you dealing with it in your relationships with your parents?

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[โ€“] 19 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

i only have my father left, but both my parents were always latin-american leftists and so were most of my siblings.

most of my siblings married maga-white people and their children (as well as their children) are maga and my father and siblings have become maga-sympathetic as a result.

only my sister and i remain leftists and i'm convinced it was entirely because we were the only ones to marry other latinos. we both keep our distance for the rest of our family. it's been 10 years since she's seen the rest of the family and i decided to do the same thing last xmas. we only visit cousins/aunts/uncles that have maintained ties with our latin-american origins and that luckily happens to coincide with our politics.

my father still tries to maintain our relationship; but i suspect that it has more to do w my aunts/uncles prodding him to do so and it didn't start happening until i told them about my decision last xmas.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck man, that sucks. Hang in there.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    i appreciate the well wishing, but i don't need it. my closeted grand nephew (assuming that my gaydar is right) and my grand nieces need it.

    their parents are several fold more homophobic & sexist than my parents ever were, so i feel sorry for whatever maga/christo-fascist torture that my nephews/nieces will inflict upon them and this is coming from someone who was disowned and dis-invited from the family for years when i came out of the closet.

    i was lucky in that i was an adult when it happened and also lucky that i remained employed the last time the economy when to shit like this in 2009, so it forced them to come grovel to me for financial assistance under threat of losing their homes from prolonged unemployment and that forced the lines of communication to open back up again.

    i fear that my grand nephew and nieces will not be so lucky.

    it's also a bizarre to recognize that the younger generations are so much more conservative than the older generations; the maga influence has infested white american culture like a sickness and it's growing since americans are too indoctrinated in american capitalism and ethos to fight it.

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