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I watched Judas and the Black Messiah with my ultra-lib mom and I think it is slightly radicalizing her! (hexbear.net)
 

My mom is one of those people who just cannot take in information that clashes with her world view and just shuts down if you say something negative about a Democrat (unless they’re progressive).

About halfway through the movie, we had to pause because my brother had to use the bathroom and she talked about growing up in that time frame she was terrified of the Black Panthers because all she knew about them was that they wanted to “kill whitey.” The movie helped her realize that she only read propaganda in the newspapers and misinformation from the FBI. She had never heard of Fred Hampton before the movie.

This morning she sent an article to the family chat about how a former cop confessed that the police and FBI were involved in Malcolm X’s assassination.

I’m not a history buff, so I don’t know how sanitized the movie is, but I think it pretty unapologetically shows cops and the FBI as villains and gives context to when Panthers kill them that keeps the Panthers as the heroes. I think we need more accurate biopics about radicals, libs love these kind of movies. Unfortunately, we’re far more likely to get another Sorkin Chicago 6.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

To be fair to her, if this is how he teaches her to use a can opener, she probably is really behind in other areas.

I imagine she hasn’t made it very far teaching herself how to read.

Also her dad called her stupid a lot in the tweets and I’m sure she’s internalized that.

40% of Americans Believe in Creationism in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Going to sincere-post for a bit.

I attended a Jewish preschool and elementary school and obviously was taught religion in addition to normal school subjects.

I never even heard about a creationism vs evolution debate until I was in high school. We were taught the creation story from the Torah in my Judaica class and about dinosaurs/the Big Bang in science class. They never seemed like they contradicted each other.

Maybe my school was just not as shitty(still ton of Israeli propaganda though), but I always got the impression that part of doing Torah study is making interpretations to explain the contradictions and that when you read 7 days and 7 nights that wouldn’t necessarily mean days the way humans experience it. Like it just seemed like it made sense that dinosaurs happened on one of those earlier days and they fucked it up so god started over with Adam and Eve or even “God created man” could mean god created an organism that would eventually evolve into man.

Idk my elementary school brain could make it make sense, I don’t know why it’s so hard for fundamentalists.

Matty Yglesias is doing an AMA, let's fuck him up in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Hi Matt,

Urbanist-related question here. We clearly have a housing shortage issue in this country. How would you propose that zoning and NIMBY-ism issues be addressed?

In addition, along with the coming internal climate migration that is predicted, what proactive urban planning suggestions would you give to those cities mostly likely to grow (such as those in the Mid-west)?

Answer:

The best thing to do is to link federal transportation money to housing reforms.

Yes let’s make it so places that don’t want to house poor people also have incentive to cut public transportation.

Why do so many people have such a strong parasocial relationship with a judge? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (3 children)

I think it’s kind of the same thing we saw with Kobe Bryant.

RBG was instrumental in a lot of legal wins for women’s rights and also was a very prominent, powerful woman in a male-dominated profession.

But there’s also a lot of shitty things about her that the people who lionize her don’t want to hear.