Mine hit me with the “We’re spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
My relationship with them was already in very thin ice due to repeated trust issues over the years, but what finally sealed it was my coming out to my dad and his response being “it’s all because of this woke generation”. Coming from someone who I thought had a very left leaning stance, therapy over the following years made me realize just how shitty and homophobic they really were. Turns out I’m probably more bi than gay (also ace), but it still stands.
I had moved away a few years and my mother was homeless due to her own choices and lack of effort to do anything. My wife and I were in town visiting her family, and we decided to take my mother out to dinner. During the meal she was (rightly) complaining about the perils of being homeless and having to watch out for the pigs. I suggested that she look into getting into some government housing. You know her response?
“I don’t want to be the light in he dark.”
If you’re as confused as I pretended I was, she means she didn’t want to live with/around black people. Which was really fucking surprising to me, considering we had lived with, around, and had been friends with all kinds of POC growing up (as you you tend to do in poor and mixed neighborhoods and when you have to rent out rooms to get by). That level of racism was rather surprising, but she had become toxic as fuck in the years before I moved, so it shouldn’t have been.
does she have a job? and if not, was it the same reason to, because i dont “like working with POCs”
Let me add to that, this is something my own mother said while being of sound mind:
- parents should have the right to kill their children if they become unruly (She said it twice)
My dad once said he never hit me as a kid. I was like “bro what world are you living in?”
I mean, there are some dark unhinged things in the pipeline of wtf memories, but I prefer the funny and lighthearted ones.
Like when my 80something year old dad got into Shawn the Sheep and Bluey and would start babbling on about the lore in the shows and explain character arcs for different characters and letting me know that this or that season is awesome but that the latest season was total ass.
He also named his lawnmower after one of the characters in one of the shows and actively refers to it by that name when he talks about his gardening projects.
There’s too many.
Off the top of my head, a fav dark one might be their serious quoting the Bible to me about how any child that isn’t respectful or submissive should be killed.
Some fucked interpretation of Deuteronomy about stoning a child in public or something.
That’s hardly an interpretation, it’s pretty much in there word for word.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A9&version=KJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deuteronomy+21%3A18-21&version=KJV
‘Gravity is caused by the rotation of the earth’
apparently that’s what they taught back when she was a kid
But how even?!
Maybe cause The force can simulate gravity. That’s why you see rotating stuff in sci-fi.
Maybe they mixed it up with magnetism? Because our magnetic field is due to the rotation of the earth’s iron-nickle core.
No, she specifically stated gravity and when she was being educated, geologists weren’t even aware that earth had a separate, differentially spinning core.
Also this was Florida so our schoolbooks were 50 years out of date too
Well that’s how it works in Larry Niven’s Ringworld and also Halo. They just thought the earth was a ring.
It was either in one of the books or an easily missed line in Halo 1, but the Halos actually don’t spin fast enough for the amount of surface gravity they have, implying artificial gravity is involved.
Halo arrays and RIngworld work because objects in frictional contact with the inner side of the boundary material are imparted linear velocity by the motion of the structure, that’s not at all how it works on planets.
Even if Earth were tide locked to the sun it would still have the same exact degree of pull on other mass-having bodies. A ring array that stops spinning has occupants who experience free fall
Here’s another fun fact: A ringworld exerts zero net gravitational force on anyone inside of it. It’s one of the implications of shell theorem.
not exactly true, a sphereworld this would be thecase
Around the edges of the ring structures you would get minute tidal effects
Not if the ring curves inward at the edges, conforming to a section of a sphere.
Which neither the HALO arrays or Rimworld do…
Not really unhinged just ignorant.
As they got more and more out there on pre-MAGA conservative media, the unhinged hits just kept on coming. But probably the most unhinged was their belief that “90 percent of Black males are in a gang.” Sad.
Had they said that about cops in the US, I would believe it.
My dad’s advice was that the cops are a gang.
they always were, even thier “UNION” isnt a true union its a mafia capable of strongarming any area they work in.
That’s just true though
Basically anything full on Cult of Personality for Trump plus steadily increasing levels of fundamentalism Christianity. Holidays have been getting…tense to say the least.
You don’t get to pick the family you’re born into. You do get to pick your family as an adult.
Sure. But I am unwilling to just throw away people who have been my foster parents since I was seven, saving me from a drug fueled abuser who had already tried to kill me once. As such I am willing to stomach a bit more than some of my contemporaries.
It was easier for me to throw away blood related people that raised me, than put up with the stress of dealing with their lie based reality 20 years ago. I don’t miss the drama at all. I occasionally miss one of the almost 20 “relatives” that I cut off. Thing is that I have over 8 billion cousins out there, so I can make up for the bigots with actual humans, rather than subhuman scum.
I remember talking about how the sun is relatively small compared to how big stars can get. Then my dad said “wait, the sun isn’t a star…” He basically thought the sun’s technical term was “a sun” and that stars are actually as tiny as they appear to us in the sky.
shouldve showed him youtube videos of size comparison between stars, and planets and nebulas.
Stars are holes in the blanket caused by people doing good deeds
You can do anything through the hole in the blanket.
even the good deed ?
Well, he was in the lucky 10,000 big time that day.
“I love you, but I don’t always like you”
Cool. Thanks. Feels just amazing.
That’s just being honest, but it needs a lot more explanation to not be hurtful.
I love my racist, homophobic mother. I get the statement completely.
I mean they were probably being honest. Kids are annoying sometimes.
Source: Was an annoying kid.
But you don’t tell them.
Counterpoint: You were an asshole sometimes.
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I was talking to my father about the war in Palestine (my family and I are Jewish so its not unusual). I said “hey maybe peace is a better way of combatting terrorism”, he responded that concentration camps should be built to combat terrorism and strip the Palestinians of their culture and identity.
“When education isn’t liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor” - Paulo Freire
Excellent quote and deeply, tragically profound.
l’ve noticed the modern philosophizing kids have distilled this mentality down to the mocking phrase:
“One day I’ll get to be the one wearing the boot! :D”
It’s an extremely unfortunate quote especially when you consider the context of Paulo Freire’s work: he was an educator that understood that teaching should not be an assembly line even back in 1960s, when the adult illiterate population was very large. One of his feats was coming with with a method that successfully meshed adults’ livelihoods and work as means to teach them how to read and write in record time. To the country’s despair, the 1964 coup killed any chance of his method being applied nationwide. He was jailed for a bit over 2 months as “traitor” then had to exile himself.
Yet, to this day, he’s demonized by the political right as a subversive communist and the main “culprit”, according to them, for the failures of our education system (“they only teach ideology at schools and universities!!!”), despite his methods only ever being applied in very limited places and times.
conservatives never going to schools love to say that about schools, but are silent on christian only schools.
Hypocrisy is their specialty
Man, I love that quote. I hadn’t seen it before.
I’m pretty skeptical anyone has the answer on how to educate in the way that’s being implied, though. Humans love to hate.
Thats sadly what happened to my people
I had a fight with my sister and I threw away a box of brownies in anger, and my parents told me they should have just gone ahead with the abortion instead of backing down from it because my grandfather wouldn’t allow it, I don’t know if I hate my parents or my grandfather more.
kinda like alot of parents actually, they expect to be paid when they retired, or retire for free or moving into your house. this is what op parents are saying. its a wierd mental gymnastics. basically saying" oh way paid for your’re child hood, we should be able to use “you” as our retirement. sounds super transactional to be honest, usually parents dont say that to kids, they are required to do this for kids. unless they are loaning them money/rent to op when he/she was an adult, that would somewhat different.
