Many folks here in North Carolina still don’t think that #ClimateChange is real, even though we keep experiencing 1,000-year rain events and our roads, bridges, homes, businesses, farms, and livelihoods are getting washed away. What do you think might help convince them that it’s real, and that Republicans will halt all progress on protecting us?
@cassandra17lina
For MAGAs, belief is belonging.
The question is akin to how do you deprogram a cult with 100 million members?
I think it starts with them believing in something greater than MAGA, but I can't see what that could be
@BrentSullivan @cassandra17lina
Multi-generational racism.
@LnzyHou @BrentSullivan @cassandra17lina Yes. The South never surrendered. Not really. They passed on their racism to their children's children's children and current affairs are the result.
@danielbsmith @LnzyHou @BrentSullivan It’s not just a southern phenomenon. The Tea Party concept of “I’ve got mine; screw everybody else” has been weaponized nationwide. The cruelty is the point. Follow Dear Leader who makes it okay to vilify women, immigrants, the disabled, the poor, veterans, LGBTQ folks, anyone “other.” The haters never imagine that one day, THEY’LL be in the crosshairs.
@cassandra17lina @danielbsmith @BrentSullivan
Exactly where they will find themselves on November 5, 2024.
@danielbsmith @BrentSullivan @cassandra17lina
My white Detroit-born parents passed their racism off to their kids. Blacks & Jews alike.
Didn’t work with me. From a very young age, I wouldn’t let anyone say N word or other disgusting names depending on race they were maligning.
I view my northern family as white trash. No matter how much wealth my siblings have, their ignorant racism nullifies any success in my eyes.
Oh and let’s add in MAGA.
@danielbsmith @LnzyHou @cassandra17lina
True to a point. Some of us escaped.
I think I escaped when I grasped that ability is evenly distributed while opportunity has gatekeepers.
My grandparents were unconscious racists--ie they weren't aware of their racism
My parents were conscious of their racism and worked at reducing it.
I'm occasionally aware of vestigial racism in my attitudes and work against it, trying to be anti-racist, as Ibram X Kendi puts it
My kid only others bigots