My mind keeps thinking back to a brief exchange I had with my mother about a year ago. It was sometime in the late fall/early winter of 2020 and my mom was watching some local news channel that was showing a segment on the state of pre trial detention in the U.S., and my mom turned to me and said something along the lines of "That's terrible! Did you know that some people are spending over a year in jails just waiting for their trial?"

(I don't remember the exact words said in this exchange but I remember the jist of it)

"Mom, you know I spent the entire summer yelling at cops. What makes you think that I didn't know about the terrible things they do?"

"Well, this doesn't have to do with cops because this is just the justice system not taking care of these people's cases fast enough"

Now normally I try and educate my mother about the bullshit in the world but that answer was so blatantly intentionally ignorant that I was just fucking speechless. It took me a couple seconds of complete bewilderment before I could ask the very, very obvious follow up question of "WHO DO YOU THINK PUTS PEOPLE IN JAIL???"

At that point my mom just threw up her hands and just gave up. I'm pretty sure she even realized that what she said was completely absurd. But I keep going back to this exchange in my head because it's such an eye opening view into the liberal mind

Anyone else have any good stories like that?

  • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I know, they will always deflect when I point to things like this and vaguely gesture at political capital or offending moderates before midterms. Even for things related to immigration like "Biden could just reverse Trumps revoking Haitians temporary asylum or reverse the 'COVID measures' preventing any asylum applications. Remember when Democrats cared about asylum seekers?"

    This batch of libs I am talking to are against student debt cancellation because "I had to pay it back, it is only fair that they do". Even after I point out that they had parents help them pay so most of them only had $1-5k. The same people that kept complaining that I never went out with them and was a hermit saving money, because my parents didn't pay so I had significantly more. I got all of it paid off and am still in favor of cancellation, you damn hypocrites.