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I don't talk with my mom too often but she'll email me the most horrific reactionary comedy central comedian stand-ups. I don't even know how to respond to the latest, they were usually just problematic but the most recent one is just a straight up fascist creating a "class" out of nothing, insulting it, and dividing it from every other imaginary class he can come up with.
It makes me feel really sad sometimes. I made it very clear that we hated fox and wouldn't let her have it on the TV while visiting her but the last time I mentioned it she said she doesn't watch them anymore anyways - it's OAN all the way. Someone else mentioned it below and I hadn't really noticed it before but, if she's away from the TV, tablet, or phone for too long she does seem to get fidgety and agitated.
I sometimes wish I had spoken up sooner about it to her. I doubt it would have stopped her but maybe it would have slowed the descent, or I could at least absolve myself of a little bit more of the guilt.
Would it help to send her 'bridging' content? To slowly shift the overton window to the left?
I really like that idea. I was planning to respond with all the problems her latest vid has in the first 5 minutes, but if I could share a vid or something as well it might help. I've sent her a lot of climate change stuff because, while she used to deny it, she's come around to acknowledging it's real and "probably" caused by humans. Just wish I could further the push to it's caused by capitalism.
Got any recommendations? I have climatetown and skip intro in mind as some transitionary YouTube channels but I don't feel like they are ostensibly political outside their specific topics. I'd like some more general content that covers everything and is maybe hosted by a boomer.
I don't have high expectations but I'd like to try.
Maybe Second Thought?
Thanks this guy is great for explaining the basics
He's great. If you're into podcasts, he does one with a couple of other leftist YouTubers (Hakim and Yugopnik) that's much more mask off called The Deprogram.
What about The Majority Report? I don't watch too much of it but it's popular among my leftie-but-not-communist friends.