Bad town fox muffler scenes1/27/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() I wouldn’t have thought so back in the day, but I guess it was always there simmering under the surface. It just sucks because I know the people he hates so much are basically the same people as me. Maybe he was always like this, but lacked the exhaust chamber to say out loud what he was thinking. When I’d press him on where he heard it and how he knew it was true, he’d just shut down. But right around the 2008 election, he became a Fox News talking point machine, saying some awful shit I never knew he believed. Growing up, my dad was the one person I knew who taught me to be a critical thinker and to educate myself on topics before I spoke about them. Here’s a collection of the stories people shared. ![]() I asked some of them to share how it felt. I mentioned the idea of losing family to Fox News brain on Twitter the other day, and unsurprisingly, a lot of people had their own similar stories. That doesn’t make seeing someone you care about slide into the myopic bubble of rightwing propaganda any easier. It’s also important to point out that “My parents watched the bad TV and got racist off it” is clearly a much less serious problem than being someone whose life is put at risk by the type of stuff Fox News promotes. To be clear, Fox News didn’t invent the white supremacy and racism at the heart of America, but the channel has definitely supercharged it. ![]()
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