“Therefore my brother, seeing how desperate was our need, was eager to heed the dream and seek for Imladris; but since the way was full of doubt and danger, I took the journey upon myself.”— The Council of Elrond, FOTR
“Yet between the brothers there was great love, and had been since childhood, when Boromir was the helper and protector of Faramir.”— Appendix A, ROTK
No thoughts except for how much Boromir loves and protects Faramir.
had a dream i found a tape labelled “sex tape” and when i played it in a vcr it was just two fully clothed guys beating the shit out of each other with metal bats
If you are a white kid with a positive relationship (as in they are not abusing you and generally like you as a kid and want you to like them) with a casually racist family member have you considered guilt tripping them? It’s been a highly effective tactic with my grampa. When he used to pop off with shit I wouldn’t give him a dissertation like my mom and uncle did bcus he’d just dig in his heels and argue. Instead, I found a well placed “wow :( no it’s fine I just like idk. I didn’t know you were like that :(((( ” worked WONDERS. If you want to deradicalize people, don’t focus on writing essays for random trolls online. Just make your racist family feel bad for being racist. You might even be able to sneak some idk facts and logic into them after you’ve been doing that consistently while hanging out.
I’m middle aged now and have reached a status in my family and among my inlaws that I can even just douse them with a look of shocked disgust and they receive the message that what they’re saying is way out of line for their social strata.
It seems to be slowly making inroads with some of them, because they start thinking over the bullshit they’re parroting, and considering what about it is so nasty.
Letting them intellectualize their bullshit doesn’t work. It’s too comfortable for them to continue to regurgitate talking points they heard on talk radio. You gotta activate their anxiety about rejection, and prepare to actually do some rejecting.
If you want them to realize the ideas they’re spouting have real world consequences, then they need to see consequences can happen to them.
Bonus: my kid sees me reacting with overt disgust and learns that racism is disgusting and horrifying, rather than something to be calmly abstracted and divorced from reality.
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