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Okay this is gonna probably make absolutely zero sense, but I'm gonna try and explain:

(This might cause some brain damage and you might lose a few braincells from reading this)

For context, most of my family are US Citizens, we were all born in China.

My mom (and my dad, somewhat) is just so big on "Tough on crime", whenever there were alleged lootings during protests, my parents would be okay with them getting shot to death. Constantly blame "Democrats" for crime and the "migrant crisis". Also love their Wechat and constantly play (Chinese) nationalistic songs and other propaganda on the fucking speaker. Also, if you are dealing with severe depression, and temporarily can't work, they call you a "廢柴", basically the cantonese term equivalent of the term "useless eater".

My brother is into some crazy conspiracy theory that the Chinese Government is in a conspiracy to replace Han Chinese with, not only Chinese ethnic minorities, but African Migrants (like wtf dude), basically the equivalent of the "white replacement conspiracy theory" but in China instead (yea it sounds insane, doesn't it? Like... buddy, China doesn't even give permanent residency to foreigners, what the fuck is this insane conspiracy theory? Also, he's a US Citizen, why the fuck does he care?). Simultaneously, he opposes racism from white people in the US (... some crazy hypocrisy, isn't it? 🤨).

Tell me this isn't just me with the most insane family in the world.

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[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

My family mellowed out a lot after the parents of the baby boomers died. The boomer generation gets a lot of flak online but for us it was the prior generations who were problematic.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Welcome to dangerous bullshit awareness. Strap in and start reading, it's going to get worse.

Naomi Klein has a bunch of nice contemporary books to start to get a grasp on it. I don't know^*^ of a book that's specific to your case, but I hope that you'll understand that you're case is not that specific.

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

Doppelganger is great. Quite a long read but all of it is worth it.

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 6 days ago
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