• cdipierr@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I can second this. Every time my parents have expressed a political view, it came from some shock-news spin of how America was a murderous wasteland on the brink of disaster (not because there are more guns than people, but because of all the non-white people who live here).

    When I told my parents I was going to New Orleans for a weekend vacation, they were terrified I would get murdered because they had been barraged with news about it being a lawless Democrat-run warren. (Not to downplay the actual violence that has taken place in NO, but their response still made it clear they had seen some first-class fearmongering).

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      1 year ago

      Oh for sure. There are people who literally think Portland was physically destroyed by Democrats and antifa in the summer of 2020, and that it’s now a post-apocalyptic wasteland.